Released:
1984-09-01

Overview:
In their spare time, after their studies or their work, children and adolescents between the ages of eight and sixteen meet at the School of Bullfighting in Madrid to learn the Art of Cúchares: Torear. In their stomachs there is no hunger as in the past, their dreams do not lie in having a farmhouse and being famous. Their only dreams are to be in front of a bull, animal with which death goes, fact of which they are fully aware, as their teachers continually remind them. These, retired bullfighters, some by age, others by force and all with their bodies full of scars produced by the horns of a bull. The nude bullfighting scene is fascinating without being exploitive, and it serves as an analogy for the vulnerability these young bullfighters have when in the ring with the bulls.

Director:
Teo Escamilla

Runtime:
1h 35min

Genre:
Drama, Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  José Moratalla
  as
  El despensa
• 
  El Chino Torero
• 
  Lucio Sandin
  as
  Himself
• 
  José Miguel Arroyo
  as
  Himself
• 
  Teo Escamilla