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The People Who Own the Dark

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{{Infobox film

| image = The People Who Own the Dark poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| native_name = {{Infobox name module|es|Último deseo|nolink=yes}}

| starring = {{ubl|Nadiuska|Alberto de Mendoza|Teresa Gimpera|Emiliano Redondo|Julia Sali|Tomás Picó|Diana Polakov|Antonio Mayans|Leona Devine|Ricardo Palacios|Maria Perschy|Paul Naschy}}

| screenplay = {{ubl|Vicente Aranda|Joaquim Jordà|Gabriel Burgos}}

| director = León Klimovsky

| country = Spain

| music = Miguel Asins Arbó

| cinematography = Miguel Fernández Mila

| released = {{Film date|1976|||df=yes}}

| editing = Soledad López

}}The People Who Own the Dark ({{langx|es|Último deseo|links=no||Last Wish}}) is a 1976 Spanish post-apocalyptic thriller directed by León Klimovsky starring Nadiuska and Alberto de Mendoza.

Plot

A group of wealthy men who have survived an apocalyptic fallout unscathed mingling with female prostitutes in a high-class orgy in a secluded countryside mansion-brothel face the attacks of a violent horde of blinded townsfolk.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uyR1CQAAQBAJ|page=155; 158|title=Sex, Sadism, Spain, and Cinema. The Spanish Horror |first=Nicholas G.|last=Schlegel|year=2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|location=Lanham|isbn=978-1-4422-5115-1}}{{Cite book|url=https://repositorio.uam.es/bitstream/handle/10486/690417/madrid-brito_debora.pdf?sequence=1|pages=114–115|title=La humanidad en peligro. Alteraciones y suplantaciones del ser humano en el cine español 1992-2014|first=Débora|last=Madrid Brito|year=2019|publisher=Universidad Autónoma de Madrid}}{{Cite web|url=https://festivalcinesevilla.eu/sites/default/files/INFO%20UTIL/18FSEFF_catalogo_2021.pdf|website=Festival de Cine de Sevilla|access-date=14 May 2023|page=244|title=18 Festival de Sevilla. Catálogo|date=2021}}

Cast

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Production

The screenplay was penned by Vicente Aranda, {{ill|Joaquim Jordà|es}} and Gabriel Burgos based on a story by Burgos.{{Cite web|url=https://cultura.unizar.es/sites/cultura.unizar.es/files/actividades/08-ultimo_deseo_2_caras.pdf|publisher=Universidad de Zaragoza|title=Último deseo (Ciclo 'Galaxia Ibérica: el cine de ciencia ficción español')|access-date=14 May 2023}} Shooting locations included the {{ill|Cartuja de Talamanca de Jarama|es}} in the province of Madrid.{{Cite web|url=https://www.madrid.org/filmmadrid/fantastic/files/madrid-fantastic-esp.pdf|title=Principales rutas del fantástico en la Comunidad de Madrid|publisher=Comunidad de Madrid|access-date=14 May 2023}}

See also

References

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Category:Spanish post-apocalyptic films

Category:Spanish horror thriller films

Category:1970s Spanish films

Category:Spanish erotic thriller films

Category:Films shot in the Community of Madrid

Category:1970s exploitation films

Category:Films about prostitution

Category:Films about blind people

Category:1976 horror films

Category:Films directed by León Klimovsky

Category:1970s erotic thriller films

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