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TitleDead Mother, The (1993)
Alternative/Original TitleLa Madre muerta
DisabilityMental Speaking Impaired
CountrySpain
Length105
GenreDrama
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DirectorJuanma Bajo Ulloa
CastKarra Elejalde Ana Alvarez Silvia Marso
NotesIsmael Lopez (Elejaldo), a petty criminal, shoots and kills a picture restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Twenty years later, and the daughter Leire (Alvarez) has been left speaking impaired and with a mental age of a child. She lives in a mental hospital. By chance she sees the burglar and he thinks she might have recognised him and will tell the police. He kidnaps her and asks a ransom from the mental hospital. They grow close.

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