Pan�s Labyrinth
Award-wining filmmaker Guillerno del Toro delivers a unique, richly imagined epic with Pan’s Labyrinth, a gothic fairy tale set against the postwar repression of Franco’s Spain. Del Toro’s sixth and most ambitious film, Pans’s Labyrinth combines the historic and morel themes of his acclaimed Spanish Civil War ghost story The Devil’s Backbone with the protean visual creativity and gripping dynamics of such previous film as Hellboy and Blade II. Harnessing the formal characteristics landscape, del Toro delivers a timeless tale of good and evil, bravery and sacrifice, love and lose.
The film unfolds through the eyes of Ofelia, a dreamy little girl who is uprooted to a rural military outpost commanded by her new stepfather. Powerless and lonely in a place of unfathomable cruelty, Ofelia lives out her own dark fable as she confronts monsters both otherworldly and human. For Ofelia, fables of good and evil, magic and danger are more than simple entertainment. They are her window onto the world, awakening her to life’s everyday possibilities and mysteries.
When a dragonfly captures Ofelia’s attention during a roadside stop, it is not a gangly insect that she follows into the woods but a glistening emerald ambassador, welcoming her to its domain. In this new tense and fearful environment, Ofelia finds a sympathetic presence in the housekeeper Mercedes, who shows her a rambling, neglected old garden near the mill. With its winding paths, it is a lovely place to wander, though one can easily become lost there after nightfall.
That garden labyrinth will become Ofelia’s haven, a dark refuge from loneliness and sorrow. It is a place of fantastical creatures and powerful talismans, presided over by the teasing, inscrutable Faun. Here, Ofelia will come to terms with the world as she knows it – and with the monsters that live not only in her imagination, but in her daily life.
Cast & Crew
Director
Guillermo del Toro
Cast
- Maribel Verdu - Mercedes
- Sergi Lopez - Vidal
- Ariadna Gil - Carmen
- Alex Angulo - Doctor
- Doug Jones - Pan/Pale Man
- Ivana Baquero - Ofelia
- Manolo Solo - Garces
- Cesar Vea - Serrano
- Roger Casamajor - Pedro
- Ivan Massague - El Tarta
- Gonzalo Uriarte - Frances
- Eusebio Lazaro - Father
- Paco Vidal - Priest
- Juanjo Cucalon - Mayor
- Lina Mira - Mayor's Wife
- Mario Zorrilla - First-Aid Boss
- Sebastian Haro - Civil Guard Captain
- Pepa Pedroche - Conchita
- Mila Espiga - Doctor's Wife
- Maria Jesus - Gatoo Jacinta
- Ana Saez - Paz
- Chani Martin - Trigo
- Milo Taboada - Young Man
- Fernando Albizu - Engineer
- Pedro G. Marzo - Manager
- Jose Luis Torrijo - Sergeant Bayona
Production Credits
- Belen Atienza - Executive Producer
- Javier Mateos Morillo - 1st Assistant Producer
- Luis Maria Reyes - 2nd Assistant Producer
- Edmundo Gil - Executive Co-Producer
- Alfonso Cuaron - Producer
- Elena Manrique - Executive Producer
- Bertha Navarro - Producer
- Jeff Barnes - Executive Producer
- Frida Torresblanco - Producer
- Alvaro Augustin - Producer
- David Ebner - Executive Producer
- O D Welch - Executive Producer
- Akira Orikasa - Executive Producer
Production Companies
- Esperanto
- Telecinco
- Estudios Picasso
- Tequila Gang
- CafeFX
- Sententia Entertainment
Writer
- Guillermo del Toro
Music
- Javier Ugarte
- Javier Navarrete
