Bicycles Are for the Summer (film)

Bicycles Are for the Summer (Spanish: Las bicicletas son para el verano) is a 1984 Spanish war drama film directed by Jaime Chávarri and based on the homonym play by Fernando Fernán Gómez. It is about the life of a family during the Spanish Civil War. The photography started in July 1983 and it was distributed by Incine. It was shot in Madrid.

Plot

Unexpected things happen, but people find ways to survive. Above all, it is a story of survival and adaptation: the bicycle symbolises Luisito's innocence disappearing as at the beginning he wants a bicycle to hang out with his friends and meet girls but by the end due to the horror of the war Luisito had to grow up and become the man of the house and his bike symbolises responsibilities he has to have for his family.

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