Pan's Labyrinth

"Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine."

2006 1h 58m ES

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In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

“Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine.”

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Cast

Ivana Baquero
Ofelia
Sergi López
Capitán Vidal
Maribel Verdú
Mercedes
Doug Jones
Fauno / Pale Man
Ariadna Gil
Carmen
Álex Angulo
Dr. Ferreiro
Roger Casamajor
Pedro
Manolo Solo
Garcés

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Writers: Raúl Monge, Guillermo del Toro
Languages: Spanish
Countries: Mexico, Spain, United States of America

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.4× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 20 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: Mexico, Spain, United States of America.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Guillermo del Toro, shot by Guillermo Navarro. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Javier Navarrete. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Bernat Vilaplana shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Ivana Baquero and Sergi López and Maribel Verdú carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Guillermo del Toro directs. Guillermo Navarro behind the camera. Javier Navarrete scores. Bernat Vilaplana cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in Mexico, Spain, United States of America. Dialogue in Spanish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Made its money back 4.4× over at the box office.
2Released 20 years ago.
3International production across 3 countries: Mexico, Spain, United States of America.
4Directed by Guillermo del Toro, shot by Guillermo Navarro. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Javier Navarrete. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Bernat Vilaplana shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Ivana Baquero and Sergi López and Maribel Verdú carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine.".
9IMDB entry: tt0457430 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1011,788 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
11Classified under 20 themes, including "princess", "army", "fairy tale", "resistance".

The technical file

Cinematography: Guillermo Navarro
Original score: Javier Navarrete
Editing: Bernat Vilaplana
Production design: Eugenio Caballero
Costume design: Lala Huete
Makeup / hair: Aleix Torrecillas
VFX supervisor: Everett Burrell
Sound: Martín Hernández
Stunt coordinator: Jordi Casares
Runtime: 118 min · 1h 58m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $19,000,000
Box office: $83,258,226
Return: 438% of budget
Original language: ES
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Awards

Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Academy Award for Best Production Design
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Ignotus Award for Best Audiovisual Production
Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Saturn Award for Best International Film

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JPV8522019-10-01
★ 8/10
Beautiful movie from Guillermo del Toro and while I did like the movie and its World War II-era plot, I can't say I was totally in love, feeling this was more style over substance, though the acting from the young Ivana Baquero was really good. 4.0/5
CinemaSerf2023-02-13
★ 7/10
I think this is my favourite film, as yet, from Guillermo del Toro - and it gets better the more you watch it. Set against at backdrop of a Spain still trying to recover from it's civil war, the young "Ofelia" and her pregnant mother "Carmen" are sent to live with the rather brutish "Capt. Vidal". Now he is a singularly nasty piece of work and the girl longs to meet her own real father. It's in the middle of the night that "Ofelia" encounters a sprite who offers her some hope. It knows of a faun in the middle of a maze who might be able to help, and so they set of in search of this ostensibly sagely and benign creature. The meeting offers her far more than a glimmer, she need only complete three tasks and will find herself taking up her inheritance as a princess and reunited with her kingly father. What now ensues is a fairy tale full of dark magic and untrustworthy characters whom the young girl must face if she is to succeed. Given the atrocities being carried out in the real world around her, she seeks more and more solace in this nether world that is probably just as dangerous - it certainly has it's fair share of malevolence and duplicity - but with her father the ultimate goal, she perseveres with wisdom and gritty determination. What makes this work is the delicious permutations of evil it offers. Contrasting the real with the fabled, the human with the fantasy - and the decency the young girl epitomises is by no means certain of success. The visual effects cleverly integrate both of her worlds without dominating the look of the film or the potency of the story - one of love, ambition, fear, trickery. It's creatively exciting and captivating too. This is storytelling at it's best, and on a big screen can be appreciate to it's full - and dazzling - effect.
Mister BLAQK2025-05-19
★ 9/10
Pan's Labyrinth is a movie that really gets you thinking. You can see it two ways: either it's a dark fairy tale about a princess escaping to a magical world, or it's about a little girl using her imagination to deal with some really tough stuff. What's cool is that the movie gives you reasons to believe both things. Like, Ofelia draws a door with chalk and actually walks through it? And the root she puts under her mom's bed seems to help? That makes you wonder if it's all real. But then, all the monsters and the things she has to do? They seem to match up perfectly with the problems she's facing in real life. Plus, the bad guy can't even see the Faun. The best part is, the movie doesn't tell you which one is right. You want to believe Ofelia gets her happy ending in a magical kingdom. But you also realize that maybe you just want that because you feel so bad for her. Del Toro, is really good at making you care, and then leaving you to figure it out. It's not just a story; it makes you think about what's real and what's not, and how our minds try to protect us when things get rough."