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The Year of Enlightenment

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At the dawn of World War II, Spanish Army lieutenant Pepe (Santiago Ramos) brings his younger brothers, 8-year-old Jesus (Lucas Martin) and 16-year-old Manolo (Jorge Sanz), to a children's sanitarium on the Portuguese border to wait out the war. The oldest boy at the hospital by several years, Manolo begins his passage into manhood first by developing a crush on the beautiful nurse Vicenta (Violeta Cela) and then falling for local teen Maria Jesus (Maribel Verdú).
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Synopsis At the dawn of World War II, Spanish Army lieutenant Pepe (Santiago Ramos) brings his younger brothers, 8-year-old Jesus (Lucas Martin) and 16-year-old Manolo (Jorge Sanz), to a children's sanitarium on the Portuguese border to wait out the war. The oldest boy at the hospital by several years, Manolo begins his passage into manhood first by developing a crush on the beautiful nurse Vicenta (Violeta Cela) and then falling for local teen Maria Jesus (Maribel Verdú).
Director
Fernando Trueba
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Runtime
2h 0m