The Devil's Backbone
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The Devil's Backbone

Year:
Duration:
106 min | Australia:108 min
Genres:
Drama | Horror
IMDB rate:
7.5
Awards:
6 wins & 7 nominations
Details
Country: Spain
Release Date: 2001-04-20
Filming Locations: Talamanca del Jarama, Madrid, Spain
Earnings
Budget: $4,500,000
Opening Weekend: $34,963 (USA) (25 November 2001)
Gross: $754,749 (USA) (5 May 2002)
Cast
Actor
Character
Marisa Paredes
Carmen
Eduardo Noriega
Jacinto
Federico Luppi
Dr. Casares
Fernando Tielve
Carlos
Íñigo Garcés
Jaime
Irene Visedo
Conchita
José Manuel Lorenzo
Marcelo
Francisco Maestre
El Puerco (as Paco Maestre)
Junio Valverde
Santi
Berta Ojea
Alma
Adrián Lamana
Gálvez
Daniel Esparza
Marcos
Miguel Ortiz
Javier Bódalo
Búho (as Javier González Madrigal)
Víctor Elías
José Luis Torrijo
Álvaro Vega
Jonás Batuecas
Daniel Cuño
Rubén Escamilla
Andreas Muñoz
Santi
Adrián Serna
Javier González Sánchez
Owl
Álvaro Román
Mikel Selles
Leandro Tejada
Izan Checa
Víctor Barroso
Luis
Mario Barroso
Francisco Fernández
Christopher Downs
Fusilado
Jaime Fernández-Cid Buscató
Fusilado
Martín Hernández
Octavio (uncredited)
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Trivia
The film's title refers to the medical condition of spina bifida.
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The upcoming Criterion Collection DVD/Blu-Ray release of the film has the spine number 666, a clever play-on-words with the film's title.
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In order to make Fernando Tielve cry if he was unable to, Guillermo del Toro would complain of his acting skills out loud and express his disappointment with his work.
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Quotes
Casares: [to Carlos] The devil's backbone. Children who should never have been born.
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Casares: [voice over narration] What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber. A ghost is me.
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Casares: What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber.
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Faq
Q
what is the significance of the picture in jacinto's hand...??and why carmen never wants to kiss jacinto when they have sexual relationship??
A
Carmen never want to let Jacinto kiss her because she only uses him, with shame, for sexual need - something the man she loves, the doctor, cannot give her.
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Photos from cast
Juan Carlos Vellido
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