Malvís (Alfredo Landa) is sick of working like crazy for nothing. He'd rather become a bandit, that's much better, he's gonna be the fearful Fendetestas! He'll spread panic in the woods of his region. But there's a little problem: there aren't much people living in his region, everyone knows everyone and everyone is so poor, so is gonna be difficult that someone takes Malvís/Fendetestas too seriously.
This is a magic history, so funny, and full of situations that will make you laugh. It's also full of characters that belong to the Spanish idiosyncrasy: the strict priest, the Guardia Civil, the old devout women, the village idiot... there's even a lost soul wandering around the woods.
The great Alfredo Landa heads a cast that gathered together the best two generations of Spanish scene: from Fernando Rey to Encarna Paso, from Manuel Alexandre to María Isbert... A cast like that would be just unthinkable nowadays. "El Bosque Animado" was the first movie of José Luis Cuerda's trilogy of rural comedies (after this one he made the surreal "Amanece Que No Es Poco", and "Así En El Cielo Como En La Tierra". Those are movies so personal that stress the Spanish culture. The young directors should take note of films like "El Bosque Animado", instead of trying to be the new "enfant terrible" and imitating US worst cinema.
Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, the unlikely story of a 100-year-old man who decides it's not too late to start over. For most people it would be the adventure of a lifetime, but Allan Karlsson's unexpected journey is not his first. For a century he's made the world uncertain, and now he is on the loose again.
蒂莉(凯特·温丝莱特 Kate Winslet 饰)回到了阔别已久的家乡,在十岁的时候,她因为被控谋杀了同学斯图尔特(Rory Potter 饰)而遭到了整个小镇的驱逐,就连蒂莉的母亲茉莉(朱迪·戴维斯 Judy Davis 饰)也不相信蒂莉的清白。虽然这么多年过去了,但蒂莉在这里依然是一个不受欢迎的存在,邪恶的一员伊万(沙恩·伯恩 Shane Bourne 饰)依然掌握着小镇居民们生死存亡的命脉,与此同时,他还有着另一个身份——斯图尔特的父亲。
蒂莉在小镇上开了一家裁缝铺,随着时间的推移,她所售卖的款式新颖的服装和闪闪发亮的布料为她俘获了一批忠实的顾客。实际上,蒂莉一直没有放弃调查当年事件的真相,她并没有杀人,她坚信当年的那个凶手如今依然生活在这座小镇里。