An Academy Award–winning dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War, Pan’s Labyrinth encapsulates the rich visual style and genre-defying craft of Guillermo del Toro. Eleven-year-old Ofelia (Ivana Baquero, in a mature and tender performance) comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather (Sergi López), a sadistic captain in General Francisco Franco’s army, hunts down Republican guerrillas refusing to give up the fight. The violent reality in which Ofelia lives merges seamlessly with her fantastical interior world when she meets a faun in a decaying labyrinth and is set on a strange, mythic journey that is at once terrifying and beautiful. In his revisiting of this bloody period in Spanish history, del Toro creates a vivid depiction of the monstrosities of war infiltrating a child’s imagination and threatening the innocence of youth.
| Ofelia | Ivana Baquero |
| Vidal | Sergi López |
| Mercedes | Maribel Verdú |
| The faun/The Pale Man | Doug Jones |
| Doctor Ferreiro | Álex Angulo |
| Carmen | Ariadna Gil |
| Garcés | Manolo Solo |
| Serrano | César Vea |
| Pedro | Roger Casamajor |
| El Tarta | Ivan Massagué |
| Francés | Gonzalo Uriarte |
| Padre | Eusebio Lázaro |
| Sacerdote | Paco Vidal |
| Rey | Federico Luppi |
| Narrator/Voice of the faun | Pablo Adán |
| Director | Guillermo del Toro |
| Written and produced by | Guillermo del Toro |
| Produced by | Bertha Navarro, Alfonso Cuarón, Frida Torresblanco and Alvaro Augustin |
| Executive producers | Belen Atienza |
| Executive producer | Elena Manrique |
| Director of photography | Guillermo Navarro ASC |
| Edited by | Bernat Vilaplana |
| Production design by | Eugenio Caballero |
| Music by | Javier Navarrete |
| Sound designer | Martín Hernández |
| Sound by | Miguel Polo |
| Makeup effects and animatronics | DDT Efectos Especiales |
| Visual effects by | CafeFX and Inc. |
| Special effects supervisor | Reyes Abades |
| Costume design by | Lala Huete |
DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:
May 25, 2017
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October 19, 2016
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By October 18, 2016
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May 25, 2017
In visually daring phantasmagorias like Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone, and Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro transfixes audiences with a unique brand of gothic storytelling that interweaves the . . . Read more »
By October 26, 2016
Guillermo del Toro has worked with an incredibly deep bench of talented visual effects artists, production designers, storyboard artists, and creature designers over the years, and of course his . . . Read more »
October 19, 2016
For over two decades, Mexican director Guillermo del Toro has cast a spell on audiences with his visually audacious fables, which blend supernatural visions with deeply personal insights on . . . Read more »
By October 18, 2016
Guillermo del Toro’s anti–Wizard of Oz refracts the surreal traumas of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of a young girl. Read more »
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