The Panero family is an illustrious family from Astorga, Spain with literary links spanning several generations. The patriarch, Leopoldo Panero, was the best-regarded poet in Spain during his time whose sympathetic attitude towards the Replicants shifted after the death of his brother. El desencanto is a controversial expose made by Jaime Chávarri that features the surviving members of the family of Leopoldo Panero. His wife, Felicidad Blanc, along with their 3 sons, Leopoldo María, Juan Luis, and Michi Panero, reflected on the downfall of the deeply corrupt and decadent world in which they had lived since the Spanish Civil War. The film caused a sensation in Spain, where it quickly became the emblematic story of what fascism can do to destroy the lives of cultivated and apparently privileged individuals.

 

Submitted by Paula Chang

Edited by Paula Chang