Battle in Heaven

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Marcos and his wife need money quickly, so they kidnap their neighbour’s baby. But the child dies and Marcos doesn’t know what to do. He confides in Anna, the young daughter of a general for whom he works as a chauffeur. Bored with her life, Anna secretly works nights as a prostitute in an exclusive brothel. A bizarre sexual dependence develops between Marcos und Anna. She sleeps with him and tries to control him. When Marcos decides to turn himself in, his wife urges him to first purge his sins with a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Guadalupe. For Marcos, it’s the last journey he will make. Battle In Heaven is both provocative and poetic and its explicit sex scenes caused a scandal at Cannes.

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