Ferocious (Feroz) 40 years old

This fantasy about a young man who becomes a bear, who becomes a young man again is equally ambivalent in its identity -- it is a drama that becomes a comedy that becomes a satire, and is not quite a straightforward fable. After the young man runs away from being shackled to a cabin, he spends the winter in a cave and emerges as a bear (obviously a man wearing a bear suit). He is taken in by a writer who teaches him how to use a computer, which somehow poses no problem. The bear speaks like the young man and for awhile tries working as a computer operator, undoubtedly raising questions about the standards in that field. While invited to tea one afternoon, the bear kills a dog in self-defense and is forced to head back to his cave for the winter -- where he emerges after a long hibernation as the young man. In retrospect, contact with the computing world had quite a transforming effect.

Credits

Ferocious Cast

Name Character
Frédéric de Pasquale He was 53, 70 years old when he died
Fernando Fernán Gómez He was 62, 86 years old when he died

Ferocious Crew

Name Department
Teo Escamilla as Cinematography. Crew
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón as Director. He was 44 (now 84) years old Directing
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Ferocious (40 years)

  • Release day: Thursday, April 05, 1984
  • Runtime: 115 minutes