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{{Short description|2004 Spanish film by Carlos Saura}}
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{{Infobox film
{{Infobox film
| name = El 7º día<br/>The 7th Day
| native_name = {{Infobox name module|es|El 7º día|nolink=yes}}
| image = El 7 dia.jpg
| image = El 7 dia.jpg
| director = [[Carlos Saura]]
| director = [[Carlos Saura]]
| producer =
| producer = [[Andrés Vicente Gómez]]
| writer = [[Ray Loriga]]
| screenplay = [[Ray Loriga]]
| narrator =
| narrator =
| starring = [[Juan Diego (actor)|Juan Diego]],<br>[[Victoria Abril]],<br> José Luis Gómez,<br>[[José Garcia (actor)|José Garcia]],<br> [[Yohana Cobo]]
| starring = {{ubl|[[Juan Diego (actor)|Juan Diego]]|[[José Luis Gómez (actor)|José Luis Gómez]]|[[José Garcia (actor)|José Garcia]]|[[Victoria Abril]]}}
| music = Roque Baños
| music = [[Roque Baños]]
| cinematography = François Lartigue
| cinematography = François Lartigue
| editing = Julia Juaniz
| editing = Julia Juániz
| distributor = Prestige Films
| distributor = Lolafilms
| released = {{Film date|2004|04|23|df=y}}
| released = {{Film date|2004|04|23|df=y|Spain}}
| runtime = 102 minutes
| runtime = 102 minutes
| country = Spain
| country = {{ubl|Spain|France}}
| studio = {{ubl|Lolafilms|[[Artédis]]}}
| language = Spanish
| language = Spanish
| budget =
| budget =
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'''''The 7th Day''''' ({{lang-es|El 7º día}}) is a [[2004 in film|2004]] [[Spain|Spanish]] [[film]] directed by [[Carlos Saura]]. It stars [[Victoria Abril]], [[Yohana Cobo]] and [[Juan Diego (actor)|Juan Diego]]. The plot, based on a true story, follows a bitter rivalry between two families that started with an ill-fated love affair, and grows over three decades.
'''''The 7th Day''''' ({{lang-es|'''El 7º día'''|links=no}}) is a 2004 Spanish-French rural drama and tragedy film directed by [[Carlos Saura]] and written by [[Ray Loriga]].<ref name="goya" /><ref name="holland" /> Its cast features [[Juan Diego (actor)|Juan Diego]], [[José Luis Gómez (actor)|José Luis Gómez]], [[José Garcia (actor)|José García]], and [[Victoria Abril]], among others. Based on the [[Puerto Hurraco massacre]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elperiodicoextremadura.com/cultura/2005/03/30/7o-dia-saura-abreel-festival-45561855.html|website=[[El Periódico Extremadura]]|date=30 March 2005|title=´El 7º día´, de Saura, abreel Festival deCine de París}}</ref> the plot follows a bitter rivalry between two families that started with an ill-fated love affair, and grows over three decades.


==Plot==
==Plot==
In an isolated village in [[Extremadura]], the Jiménez and Fuentes families have a violent history of land disputes, jealousy, envy, and violence. The hatred between the two families begins in the 1960s as a love story, between Amadeo Jiménez and Luciana Fuentes. Their romance ends when the fickle Amadeo drops Luciana, when she already has prepared for marriage. Feeling betrayed, Luciana expresses a vengeful wish on her seducer in the presence of her fragmented, devoted brother Jerónimo who, in turn, executes his sister's wish, resulting in the young man's cold and brutal murder in an open field.
In an isolated village in [[Extremadura]], the Jiménez and Fuentes families have a violent history of land disputes, jealousy, envy, and violence. The hatred between the two families begins in the 1960s as a love story, between Amadeo Jiménez and Luciana Fuentes. Their romance ends when the fickle Amadeo drops Luciana, when she already has prepared for marriage. Feeling betrayed, Luciana expresses a vengeful wish on her seducer in the presence of her fragmented, devoted brother Jerónimo who, in turn, executes his sister's wish, resulting in the young man's cold and brutal murder in an open field.


Despite Jerónimo's capture and 30-year prison sentence, the shame on the Fuentes family still proves to be terrible burden as the townspeople continue to treat the siblings with open contempt and derision, culminating one day in a suspicious fire that engulfs the family home with their mother still inside. The Fuentes siblings move to a nearby village to avoid direct contact with the Jimenez family headed by Amadeo’s brother, José, who feels the two families are now even.
Despite Jerónimo's capture and 30-year prison sentence, the shame on the Fuentes family still proves to be terrible burden as the townspeople continue to treat the siblings with open contempt and derision, culminating one day in a suspicious fire that engulfs the family home with their mother still inside. The Fuentes siblings move to a nearby village to avoid direct contact with the Jimenez family headed by Amadeo's brother, José, who feels the two families are now even.


Humiliated, forcibly driven out of town, and struggling with Luciana's delusional obsession over her broken engagement, the Fuentes's harbored animosity festers with each passing year, awaiting Jerónimo's release and pondering the inevitable day of reckoning against the community that had turned its back against them.
Humiliated, forcibly driven out of town, and struggling with Luciana's delusional obsession over her broken engagement, the Fuentes's harbored animosity festers with each passing year, awaiting Jerónimo's release and pondering the inevitable day of reckoning against the community that had turned its back against them.


Two decades later when Jerónimo is released from jail, he rushes to look for Jóse and stabs him. Jóse survives. Carmen, Jóse's wife, deeply affected by the attempt on her husband’s life, pressures him to leave the village and move out to a big city, but Antonio is unable to sell his butcher shop for the money he is asking, and refuses to leave town out of fear.
Two decades later when Jerónimo is released from jail, he rushes to look for José and stabs him. José survives. Carmen, José's wife, deeply affected by the attempt on her husband's life, pressures him to leave the village and move out to a big city, but Antonio is unable to sell his butcher shop for the money he is asking, and refuses to leave town out of fear.


The events are narrated by Isabel, the oldest of José’s three young daughters. A summer romance develops between the teenager Isabel and Chino, a young rebel who goes around town riding his motorcycle. He is sincere in his affections and she falls for him. With his help, Isabel is determined to discover the seed of hatred that has tragically marked the story of the two families for more than thirty years. There is a town crazy, a "tonto", that watched Jose light the Fuentes house on fire. However, Isabel dismisses the testimony of the slow-witted, drug-addicted witness, the child of an incestuous relationship.
The events are narrated by Isabel, the oldest of José's three young daughters. A summer romance develops between the teenager Isabel and Chino, a young rebel who goes around town riding his motorcycle. He is sincere in his affections and she falls for him. With his help, Isabel is determined to discover the seed of hatred that has tragically marked the story of the two families for more than thirty years. There is a [[village idiot]] ("El Tonto"), that watched José light the Fuentes house on fire. However, Isabel dismisses the testimony of the slow-witted, drug-addicted witness, the child of an incestuous relationship.


Isabel’s love for Chino ends, before it has time to deepen, when Chino is forced to leave town abruptly fleeing the authorities that have discovered his illicit drug dealing. He gives her a gold chain as a farewell gift. Upset, she throws the chain into a swimming pool then dives in to retrieve it.
Isabel's love for Chino ends, before it has time to deepen, when Chino is forced to leave town abruptly fleeing the authorities that have discovered his illicit drug dealing. He gives her a gold chain as a farewell gift. Upset, she throws the chain into a swimming pool then dives in to retrieve it.


"On the seventh day of creating the world, God rested", Isabel notes, and that is why the most horrible things happen on Sunday. One Sunday the two aging brothers Antonio and Emilio Fuentes come to town with shotguns and ammunition. Their revenge engulfs the entire village and its inhabitants pay with their blood. Systematically and in cold blood, they gun down every person that cross their path beginning with the three young Jiménez sisters. Nine (9) are killed, 12 are injured. When the killing spree is over, Isabel is among the wounded survivors, but her two sisters Antonia and Encarna are, like many others, dead. When the police look for the two Fuentes brothers, they find them in a field and they do not struggle to be arrested. The two Fuentes sisters go to an asylum.
"On the seventh day of creating the world, God rested", Isabel notes, and that is why the most horrible things happen on Sunday. One Sunday the two aging brothers Antonio and Emilio Fuentes come to town with shotguns and ammunition. Their revenge engulfs the entire village and its inhabitants pay with their blood. Systematically and in cold blood, they gun down every person that cross their path beginning with the three young Jiménez sisters. Nine (9) are killed, 12 are injured. When the killing spree is over, Isabel is among the wounded survivors, but her two sisters Antonia and Encarna are, like many others, dead. When the police look for the two Fuentes brothers, they find them in a field and they do not struggle to be arrested. The two Fuentes sisters go to an asylum.


The next day, the Fuentes brothers are captured and sent to jail for life. Their two sisters, Luciana and Ángela, are also found guilty, but regarded as mentally unstable, they are locked away in a mental institution. Isabel Jiménez and her mother (Carmen) move to a city on the coast, leaving Jóse behind. He has refused to leave the village. Isabel beholds a picture of happier times in which she is with her sisters.
The next day, the Fuentes brothers are captured and sent to jail for life. Their two sisters, Luciana and Ángela, are also found guilty, but regarded as mentally unstable, they are locked away in a mental institution. Isabel Jiménez and her mother (Carmen) move to a city on the coast, leaving José behind. He has refused to leave the village. Isabel beholds a picture of happier times in which she is with her sisters.


==Cast==
==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
*Juan Diego - Antonio Fuentes
* [[Juan Diego (actor)|Juan Diego]] as Antonio<ref name="especiales">{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/especiales/2005/01/cultura/goya/peli_elseptimo.html|website=[[El Mundo (Spain)|elmundo.es]]|title=El séptimo día|access-date=15 August 2022|date=January 2005}}</ref>
*Victoria Abril- Luciana
* [[Victoria Abril]] as Luciana<ref name="especiales" />
*José Luis Gómez - Emilio Fuentes
*[[José Garcia (actor)|José Garcia]] - José Jimenez
* [[José Luis Gómez (actor)|José Luis Gómez]] as Emilio<ref name="especiales" />
* [[José Garcia (actor)|José García]] as José<ref name="especiales" />
*Yohana Cobo - Isabel Jiménez
* [[Yohana Cobo]] as Isabel<ref name="especiales" />
*Oriol Vila - Chino
* {{ill|Oriol Vila|es}} as Chino<ref name="especiales" />
*Eulalia Ramon - Carmen Jimenez
* {{ill|Eulalia Ramón|es}} as Carmen<ref name="especiales" />
*Ramón Fontseré - Jerónimo Fuentes
* {{ill|Ramon Fontserè|es}} as Jerónimo<ref name="especiales" />
*Carlos Hipolito – The fool
* [[Carlos Hipólito]] as [[Village idiot|El Tonto]]<ref name="especiales" />
*Ana Wagener -Ángela
* [[Ana Wagener]] as Ángela<ref name="holland" />
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*Elia Galera -Clara
* {{ill|Juan Sanz|ca|Juan Sanz Zorita}} as Amadeo<ref name="holland" />
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*Carlos Caniowski -Raúl
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* [[Irene Escolar]] Antonia<ref name="holland" />
*Juan Sanz - Amadeo
* Alejandra Lozano as Encarnación<ref name="holland" />
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*Irene Escolar – Antonia Jimenez
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== Production ==
The film is a Spanish-French co-production by [[Andrés Vicente Gómez]]'s Lola Films and [[Artédis|Artedis]].<ref name="goya" /> Shooting locations in the [[province of Segovia]] included [[Otero de Herreros]], [[Zarzuela del Monte]], [[Vegas de Matute]] and Segovia's old prison.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elperiodicoextremadura.com/lo-ultimo/2003/07/31/silencio-rueda-45720044.html|website=[[El Periódico Extremadura]]|publisher=[[Prensa Ibérica]]|date=31 July 2003|title=¡Silencio, se rueda!}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.diariocordoba.com/cultura/2003/07/29/comienza-rodaje-filme-septimo-dia-38948208.html|website=Diario Córdoba|date=29 July 2003|title=Comienza el rodaje del filme ´El séptimo día´ en Segovia}}</ref> The film was produced by [[Andrés Vicente Gómez]], scored by [[Roque Baños]], lensed by {{ill|François Lartigue|fr}}, and edited by {{ill|Julia Juániz|es|Julia Juániz Martínez}}.<ref name="holland" />

== Release ==
Distributed by Lolafilms Distribución, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 23 April 2004.<ref name="holland">{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2004/film/reviews/the-7th-day-1200533650/|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=The 7th Day|date=4 May 2004|first=Jonathan|last=Holland}}</ref><ref name="especiales" /> It also screened at the 28th [[Montreal World Film Festival|Montreal Film Festival]] on 1 September 2004.<ref name="montreal">{{Cite web|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2004/09/07/espectaculos/1094508010_850215.html|website=[[El País]]|date=7 September 2004|title=Carlos Saura, premiado en Montreal por 'El 7º día'}}</ref>
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== Accolades ==
{{Awards table|5}}
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| align = "center" | 2004 || 28th [[Montreal World Film Festival|Montreal Film Festival]] || Best Director || Carlos Saura || {{won}} || align = "center" | <ref name="montreal" />
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| align = "center" rowspan = "6" | 2005 || rowspan = "4" | [[19th Goya Awards]] || [[Goya Award for Best Director|Best Director]] || Carlos Saura || {{nom}} || rowspan = "4" | <ref name="goya">{{Cite web|url=https://www.premiosgoya.com/pelicula/el-7o-dia|access-date=15 August 2022|title=El 7º día|publisher=[[Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España]]|website=[[Goya Awards|premiosgoya.com]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] || Juan Diego || {{nom}}
|-
| [[Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] || Victoria Abril || {{nom}}
|-
| [[Goya Award for Best Art Direction|Best Art Direction]] || Rafael Palmero || {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan = "2" | [[14th Actors and Actresses Union Awards]] || Best Film Actor in a Secondary Role || Juan Diego || {{nom}} || rowspan = "2" | <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fanzinedigital.com/cine/1223_1-El_Congreso_premiado_por_la_union_de_actores_por_aprobar_la_ley_contra_la_violencia_de_genero.html|website=Fanzine Digital|title=El Congreso premiado por la unión de actores por aprobar la ley contra la violencia de género|date=16 June 2005}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/06/21/cultura/1119312678.html|website=[[El Mundo (Spain)|El Mundo]]|title='Aquí no hay quien viva', 'Mar adentro' y 'Yo Claudio' vencen en los Premios de la Unión de Actores|date=21 June 2005}}</ref>
|-
| Best Film Actress in a Minor Role || Victoria Abril || {{won}}
|}

==See also==
* [[List of Spanish films of 2004]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}


==External links==
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Not to be confused with 7th Day (film).
For other uses, including films with similar names, see Seventh day.
The 7th Day
SpanishEl 7º día
Directed byCarlos Saura
Screenplay byRay Loriga
Produced byAndrés Vicente Gómez
Starring
CinematographyFrançois Lartigue
Edited byJulia Juániz
Music byRoque Baños
Production
companies
Distributed byLolafilms
Release date
  • 23 April 2004 (2004-04-23) (Spain)
Running time
102 minutes
Countries
  • Spain
  • France
LanguageSpanish

The 7th Day (Spanish: El 7º día) is a 2004 Spanish-French rural drama and tragedy film directed by Carlos Saura and written by Ray Loriga.[1][2] Its cast features Juan Diego, José Luis Gómez, José García, and Victoria Abril, among others. Based on the Puerto Hurraco massacre,[3] the plot follows a bitter rivalry between two families that started with an ill-fated love affair, and grows over three decades.

Plot[edit]

In an isolated village in Extremadura, the Jiménez and Fuentes families have a violent history of land disputes, jealousy, envy, and violence. The hatred between the two families begins in the 1960s as a love story, between Amadeo Jiménez and Luciana Fuentes. Their romance ends when the fickle Amadeo drops Luciana, when she already has prepared for marriage. Feeling betrayed, Luciana expresses a vengeful wish on her seducer in the presence of her fragmented, devoted brother Jerónimo who, in turn, executes his sister's wish, resulting in the young man's cold and brutal murder in an open field.

Despite Jerónimo's capture and 30-year prison sentence, the shame on the Fuentes family still proves to be terrible burden as the townspeople continue to treat the siblings with open contempt and derision, culminating one day in a suspicious fire that engulfs the family home with their mother still inside. The Fuentes siblings move to a nearby village to avoid direct contact with the Jimenez family headed by Amadeo's brother, José, who feels the two families are now even.

Humiliated, forcibly driven out of town, and struggling with Luciana's delusional obsession over her broken engagement, the Fuentes's harbored animosity festers with each passing year, awaiting Jerónimo's release and pondering the inevitable day of reckoning against the community that had turned its back against them.

Two decades later when Jerónimo is released from jail, he rushes to look for José and stabs him. José survives. Carmen, José's wife, deeply affected by the attempt on her husband's life, pressures him to leave the village and move out to a big city, but Antonio is unable to sell his butcher shop for the money he is asking, and refuses to leave town out of fear.

The events are narrated by Isabel, the oldest of José's three young daughters. A summer romance develops between the teenager Isabel and Chino, a young rebel who goes around town riding his motorcycle. He is sincere in his affections and she falls for him. With his help, Isabel is determined to discover the seed of hatred that has tragically marked the story of the two families for more than thirty years. There is a village idiot ("El Tonto"), that watched José light the Fuentes house on fire. However, Isabel dismisses the testimony of the slow-witted, drug-addicted witness, the child of an incestuous relationship.

Isabel's love for Chino ends, before it has time to deepen, when Chino is forced to leave town abruptly fleeing the authorities that have discovered his illicit drug dealing. He gives her a gold chain as a farewell gift. Upset, she throws the chain into a swimming pool then dives in to retrieve it.

"On the seventh day of creating the world, God rested", Isabel notes, and that is why the most horrible things happen on Sunday. One Sunday the two aging brothers Antonio and Emilio Fuentes come to town with shotguns and ammunition. Their revenge engulfs the entire village and its inhabitants pay with their blood. Systematically and in cold blood, they gun down every person that cross their path beginning with the three young Jiménez sisters. Nine (9) are killed, 12 are injured. When the killing spree is over, Isabel is among the wounded survivors, but her two sisters Antonia and Encarna are, like many others, dead. When the police look for the two Fuentes brothers, they find them in a field and they do not struggle to be arrested. The two Fuentes sisters go to an asylum.

The next day, the Fuentes brothers are captured and sent to jail for life. Their two sisters, Luciana and Ángela, are also found guilty, but regarded as mentally unstable, they are locked away in a mental institution. Isabel Jiménez and her mother (Carmen) move to a city on the coast, leaving José behind. He has refused to leave the village. Isabel beholds a picture of happier times in which she is with her sisters.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

The film is a Spanish-French co-production by Andrés Vicente Gómez's Lola Films and Artedis.[1] Shooting locations in the province of Segovia included Otero de Herreros, Zarzuela del Monte, Vegas de Matute and Segovia's old prison.[5][6] The film was produced by Andrés Vicente Gómez, scored by Roque Baños, lensed by François Lartigue [fr], and edited by Julia Juániz [es].[2]

Release[edit]

Distributed by Lolafilms Distribución, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 23 April 2004.[2][4] It also screened at the 28th Montreal Film Festival on 1 September 2004.[7]

Accolades[edit]

Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
2004 28th Montreal Film Festival Best Director Carlos Saura Won [7]
2005 19th Goya Awards Best Director Carlos Saura Nominated [1]
Best Supporting Actor Juan Diego Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Victoria Abril Nominated
Best Art Direction Rafael Palmero Nominated
14th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actor in a Secondary Role Juan Diego Nominated [8][9]
Best Film Actress in a Minor Role Victoria Abril Won

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "El 7º día". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Holland, Jonathan (4 May 2004). "The 7th Day". Variety.
  3. ^ "´El 7º día´, de Saura, abreel Festival deCine de París". El Periódico Extremadura. 30 March 2005.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "El séptimo día". elmundo.es. January 2005. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  5. ^ "¡Silencio, se rueda!". El Periódico Extremadura. Prensa Ibérica. 31 July 2003.
  6. ^ "Comienza el rodaje del filme ´El séptimo día´ en Segovia". Diario Córdoba. 29 July 2003.
  7. ^ a b "Carlos Saura, premiado en Montreal por 'El 7º día'". El País. 7 September 2004.
  8. ^ "El Congreso premiado por la unión de actores por aprobar la ley contra la violencia de género". Fanzine Digital. 16 June 2005.
  9. ^ "'Aquí no hay quien viva', 'Mar adentro' y 'Yo Claudio' vencen en los Premios de la Unión de Actores". El Mundo. 21 June 2005.

External links[edit]

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