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Forbidden Love

Country: Spain, Language: Spanish, 108 mins

Original Title

Cambio de Sexo
  • Director: Vicente Aranda
  • Writer: Vicente Aranda; Carlos Durán
  • Producer: Jaime Fernández-Cid

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José Maria is a seventeen year old boy; his father is a successful restaurant owner in a town some distance from Barcelona, in Spain. The boy is intelligent and sensitive, but his mannerisms and habits, and lack of masculine drive, lead him to get bullied at school. The school principal decides that José is the disruptive influence, and asks for him to be removed from the school. The father berates the boy, and his mother, for his failure to be a red-blooded young man, and sends him away for a while to live with a friend in the country. Father visits the boy, and takes him to a strip club in Barcelona, run by a lady friend of his, intending that this will "cure" him of his sexual reserve.


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Cast & Characters

Victoria Abril as Jose Marea / Maria Jose;
Lou Castel as Duran;
Fernando Sancho as Padre de Jose Maria;
Rafaela Aparicio as Dona Pilar;
Montserrat Carulla as Madre de Jose Maria;
Daniel Martin as Pedro;
Maria Elias as Lolita;
Bibiana Fernandez as Bibi;
Rosa Morata as Fanny;
Alfred Lucchetti as Medico;
Mario Gas as Alvaro;
Manuel Gas;
Vicky Pena as Adela;
Joan Borras as Director del Instituto;
Jose Gras as El chulo