Ein sehr alter Mann mit riesigen Flügeln

Argentinian director and father of the new Latin American cinema Fernando Birri takes on the story of the same name by his friend Gabriel García Márquez. Pelayo and Elisanda rescue an old man with white wings from the water and put him up in their chicken coop. The neighbour is certain: it's an angel! The priest is sceptical, but the simple village quickly becomes a place of pilgrimage with a fairground.
A celebration of colour and taboo, Birri tells a psychedelic satire on the belief in miracles and greed for profit.