The Rats

Year: 1997

Runtime: 97 mins

Language: Spanish

Director: Antonio Giménez-Rico

Drama

In the mid‑1950s, El Nini, a young child raised in the most impoverished, forgotten corner of rural Castile, Spain, lives with his father in a cave. Their only livelihood is the relentless hunting of water rats, a skill taught by nature itself. When authorities move to strip them of their shelter and means of subsistence, a fierce, uncontrollable eruption of violence follows.

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