Directed and written by Juan Antonio Bardem (Javier’s uncle) this 1955 Spanish b & w neo-realist/noir fusion classic studies the despair and decadence of the mid-1950s Spanish bourgeoisie and culture. A math lecturer (very bourgeois in background) and his mistress, the wife of a powerful industrialist, hit a cyclist and leave him to die. What follows speaks to the decadence of this level of society as this Nationalist struggles to find his soul once again. The men look alike, the industrialist lives in a modern house, the professor with his mother. An excellent film. The features include a stellar documentary about Bardem. See this one