Daniel, a young man in his twenties, moves from his hometown to the city of Bilbao in search of… a chance to discover himself. When he is not looking for work, he spends his time reading in the city library. One day Daniel encounters an elderly and seemingly kind old gentleman who commends his desire to educate himself. He says he might be able to find Daniel a job and sure enough, he starts work for an organization called The House Without Frontiers. After a short period of probation, Daniel is summoned to the organizations labyrinthine headquarters and is given his instructions. Although much is still not clear to him, it seems he is being asked to locate a young woman called Anabel Campos (played by Geraldine Chaplin). It turns out that Anabel, like Daniel, had accepted a job with the House Without Frontiers but fled the organization after a senior member of the tribunal was found murdered. Was she guilty? Is she in hiding or has she vanished without a trace?
During his search Daniel begins to question the exact nature of the House Without Frontiers. When he tries to ask his employers about the assignment, he is repeatedly thwarted in his attempts, culminating in an incident where he finds the main headquarters deserted and two construction workers walling up a doorway in the mansion.
He also discovers that he has fallen in love with this girl that he has never met. Beginning with a hideous scene that echoes (and is repeated) throughout the film, The House Without Frontiers is a Kafkaesque nightmare in the vein of films such as The Short Night of Glass Dolls and uses the melancholy and morbid atmosphere of the old city of Bilbao in the same way that Glass Dolls used the city of Prague. Geraldine Chaplin is superb in her role as the doomed and tragic Anabel Campos while Tony Isbert (The Dracula Saga, Inquisition) plays the naive Daniel to perfection. The film also includes a short but memorable appearance by Patty Shepard.
The.House.Without.Frontiers.1972.BDRIP.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1 h 35 min Size: 2.34 GiB Video Codec: x264 Resolution: 958x576 Aspect ratio: 5:3 Frame rate: 24.000 fps Bit rate: 3 000 kb/s BPP: 0.227 Audio #1: Spanish 1.0ch FLAC @ 215 kb/s (Main Audio) #2: English 1.0ch FLAC @ 279 kb/s (English Dub)
Language(s):Spanish, English
Subtitles:English
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