Tiempo de Silencio [SEP] country of origin
shadow of Franco's regime and the yearning for freedom and enlightenment.
Analysis.
"Tiempo de Silencio" is an accurate representation of Spain post civil war period, a denunciation of the reality of Franco's Spain in the 1950s, from which Aranda himself emigrated in 1952, the same period in which the action takes place. The film adheres to an unforgiving neorealist aesthetic.
The nightmarish scene of the abortion Pedro performs on the dying Florita famously includes the chilling sound of the scalpel scraping her womb. The intrusive
military officer, who supports his poor family and pays his gambling debts by plotting an elaborate trap to swindle money from those who fall for the charms of his pretty eldest daughter.
Film career and later life "Tiempo de Silencio" (1986).
Aranda's career began to soar when he made "Tiempo de Silencio" (1986) ("Time of Silence"), an adaptation of the famed Luis Martín Santos novel of the same name. The film had a major cast headed by Imanol Arias, Victoria Abril