Pan's Labyrinth

Guillermo del Toro · 2006 CE · Film · Latin American · Contemporary

In 1944 a pregnant woman brings her daughter to a mill in the Spanish hills where her new husband, a Falangist captain, is hunting the last of the maquis in the woods. The girl finds a stone labyrinth behind the house and a faun who tells her she is a lost underground princess with three tasks to prove it. Del Toro's Spanish-language film makes a fairy tale and a partisan war answer to each other.

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• influenced by ↑ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Lewis Carroll · 1865 CE · Novel

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Closest analogues

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• The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
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• The Subtle Knife
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• The Lord of the Rings
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  38% · 9 shared
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