The Challenges (1969) Los desafíos

Directors: José Luis Egea, Víctor Erice
Writers: Rafael Azcona (screenplay), Claudio Guerín (screenplay)
Stars: Dean Selmier, Francisco Rabal, Asunción Balaguer

Three different episodes with the common nexus of expressing how a situation that seems normal ends up in an outbreak of violence: a father, actor of renown and owner of a luxurious mansion, who fears losing his daughter to an American officer; an adulterous husband, owner of an extensive estate where he breeds fighting bulls, who feels cheated to find that his wife has also been unfaithful to him; a young American traveler across Spanish lands who decides that his trip and that of his companions should not continue.

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