And she did run away to the Spanish civil war with a rebellious young cousin whom she had met only once.

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In the violent aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a defiantly imaginative girl, Ofelia, recoils from her harsh life her stepfather is a Fascist captain who tortures dissidents and descends into a ravishing underworld of sprites and satyrs.

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