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May 10, 1973 · With Claudio Brook, Rita Macedo, Arturo Beristáin, Diana Bracho. The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.
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- Drama
- Arturo Ripstein
- 1973-05-10
The Castle of Purity (Spanish: El castillo de la pureza) is a 1972 Mexican drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It is based in a real criminal case that took place in Mexico City in 1959.
The Castle of Purity. Determined to protect his loved ones from the evils of the world, Gabriel keeps them locked up at home, where his wife Beatriz and their children help run the family business–making rat poison.
As they grow older, the kids begin to challenge their father’s version of life beyond the “castle” walls. Our take Ripstein’s claustrophobic family drama about a controlling father—played by regular Buñuel star Claudio Brook—powerfully dismantles the nuclear family.
Gabriel Lima (Claudio Brook) kept his family, wife and three children, locked for 18 years in their downtown house, protecting them from a corrupt world. The children names were Utopia, Porvenir (future) and Voluntad (willpower).
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Based on a true story. Gabriel Lima keeps his wife and children imprisoned in their own house in order to protect them from the corruption and perversion of the outside world. The situation reaches a breaking point when the adolescent children get tired of their father's punishments.
