Stars a decent cast : the little girl Maribel Martín (La saga de los Rius ), Angel Díaz (La Frontera de dios), Julia Caba Alba (Los ladrones somos gente honrada), ,Mary Delgado (El crimen de la calle Bordadores). In a realist style Mariscal depicts life at a village through the adventures of four children and a group of adult people. It is a nice adaptation based on the homonymous novel that published in 1950, written by notorious Castillian novelist Miguel Delibes and script by Jose Zamit and director Ana Mariscal herself. Highlighted by the amusing scenes of the fims exhibition at the cinema and how they're heavily censored by the authorities.
Enjoyable film about social habits, emotion, agreeable moments and sentimentalism. Along the way, Daniel and his friends Tiñoso, Moñigo, escape to have fun by the river but things go wrong. As Daniel falls in love for an adult girl, La Mica : Mary Paz Pondal, resulting in envy from his little girlfriend : Maribel Martin. As he remembers his best and worst moments, meanwhile happening a lot of incidents and anecdotes. As Daniel nicknamed El Mochuelo : Jose Antonio Mejias, has to go the city to study and to get a better future. Concerning relationship among villagers, children, gossips, love stories, spinsters, religion until a tragic finale. It is well set in hard times after spanish Civil at a litle village.