Viva la Muerte (film)
Viva la Muerte (English:
Long Live Death) is a 1971 French-Tunisian drama film shot in Tunisia and directed by Fernando Arrabal.
The film was released on 12 May 1971 and Arrabal drew on his own childhood for inspiration for the movie.
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Viva la Muerte" takes place at the end of the Spanish Civil War, telling the story of Fando, a young boy whose father was turned in to authorities as a suspected communist by his fascist-sympathizing mother.
It has gained cult popularity as a midnight movie.
The opening credits sequence features drawings by acclaimed artist, actor and novelist Roland Topor.
Fernando Arrabal
Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet.
He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955.
Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", or "half-expatriate, half-exiled".
Arrabal has directed seven full-length feature films and has published over 100 plays; 14 novels; 800 poetry collections, chapbooks, and artists' books; several essays; and his notorious "Letter to General Franco" during the dictator's lifetime.
His complete plays have been published, in multiple languages, in a two-volume edition totaling over two thousand pages.
"The New York Times" theatre critic Mel Gussow has called Arrabal the last survivor among the "three avatars of modernism".
In 1962, Arrabal co-founded the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor, inspired by the god Pan.
He was elected Transcendent Satrap of the Collège de Pataphysique in 1990.
Forty other Transcendent Satraps have been elected over the past half-century, including Marcel Duchamp, Eugène Ionesco, Man Ray, Boris Vian, Dario Fo, Umberto Eco, and Jean Baudrillard.
Arrabal spent three years as a member of André Breton's surrealist group and was a friend of Andy Warhol and Tristan Tzara.
Writer and critic wrote of Arrabal:
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In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
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Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film Viva La Muerte (Film)?
Answer: Melilla