Black Bread
Pa Negre
The lies of adults raise little monsters.
Overview
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.
- Budget
- $6,000,000
- Revenue
- $3,770,657
- Production
- Massa d'Or Produccions, TV3
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Agustí Villaronga
- Writers
- Agustí Villaronga
- Producers
- Isona Passola,Lluís Ferrando,Elisa Plaza
- Cinematography
- Antonio Riestra
- Composer
- José Manuel Pagán,Oriol Carrasco
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Andres Gomez
March 17, 2013
A different story in the after times of the Spanish Civil War. Cleverly, it mixes a thriller with the destruction of the naïve childhood of the main character. Who is good and who is bad, who is true and who lies is unclear as the events that lead to the current situation. A must to see in nowadays Spanish film making.
badelf
October 23, 2025
Agustí Villaronga's "Pa Negre" (Black Bread) belongs to a vital tradition of Spanish cinema that uses a child's perspective to reveal how fascism poisons communities from within. Like Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth" and especially Víctor Erice's "El Sur" (1983), this film understands that childhood under fascism means the premature death of innocence. Young Andreu doesn't just grow up; he's forced to witness the moral rot beneath the surface of his post-Civil War Catalan village. The f…