Casares and Carmen operate an orphanage in a remote part of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. The orphanage has been subject to attacks from Franco’s troops, and an unexploded bomb waits to be defused in the home’s courtyard. One day, a boy named Carlos arrives and begins having visions of a mysterious apparition he can’t identify, hearing strange stories about a child named Santi who went missing the day the bomb appeared…
2012 Galway Film Fleadh Programme
Guillermo del Toro | Spain, Mexico | 2001 | Running Time 106 mins | Colour
The Devil’s Backbone


TRANSLATE