Year			2000
Original lang.			Spanish
Country			Spain
Genre			Drama
Length			1:35
Director			José Luis Cuerda
Writer			José Luis Cuerda Rafael Azcona
Company			Miramax Films
Starring			Fernando Fernán Gómez Manuel Lozano Uxía Blanco Gonzalo M. Uriarte Alexis de los Santos Jesús Castejón Show more... Fernando Fernán Gómez Manuel Lozano Uxía Blanco Gonzalo M. Uriarte Alexis de los Santos Jesús Castejón Guillermo Toledo Elena Fernández Tamar Novas Tatan Roberto Vidal Celso Parada Celso Bugallo Tucho Lagares Milagros Jiménez

In Galacia, northern Spain, just before the Spanish Civil War, a sensitive, asthmatic 8-year-old Moncho (Manuel Lozano), who has just started school, is so petrified by elderly schoolmaster Don Gregorio (Fernando Fernan Gomez) that he escapes into the woods. But despite his fierce appearance, Don Gregorio is a gentle, humanitarian Republican and free-thinker, keen to teach the quick-thinking Moncho how to be good.