Movie

Umbracle

★ 6.0(11)19721h 25m

Documentary

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Umbracle is streaming on MUBI Amazon Channel in United States. Availability checked 15 June 2026.

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Director: Pere Portabella
Release date: 1972-05-04
Runtime: 1h 25m
Language: English
Status: Released
Country: Spain
Studio: Films 59

About Umbracle

Umbracle is a 1972 movie in the Documentary genre, directed by Pere Portabella, starring Christopher Lee, Jeannine Mestre and Miguel Bilbatúa. It has a runtime of 1 hour 25 minutes. It holds an average rating of 6.0/10 from 11 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Umbracle in United States — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

This film turns on two basic axes: the inquiry into ways of cinematographic representation and a critical image of official Spain at the time of the Franco dictatorship. “Montage of attractions” and Brechtianism in strong doses. Umbracle is made up of fragments (some are archive footage) that resound rather than progress by unusual links, with dejá vu scenes that promise us more but remain tensely unfinished. Jonathan Rosembaun said: “few directors since Resnais have played so ruthlessly with the unconscious narrative expectations to bug us”. Learning from the feeling of strangeness caused by Rossellini as he threw well known actors into savage scenery in southern Europe. Portabella makes Christopher Lee wander around a dream-like Barcelona. Without a doubt Portabella’s most structurally complex and most profoundly political film, that is ferociously poetic.