Malvís (Alfredo Landa) is sick of working like crazy for nothing. He'd rather become a bandit, that's much better, he's gonna be the fearful Fendetestas! He'll spread panic in the woods of his region. But there's a little problem: there aren't much people living in his region, everyone knows everyone and everyone is so poor, so is gonna be difficult that someone takes Malvís/Fendetestas too seriously.
This is a magic history, so funny, and full of situations that will make you laugh. It's also full of characters that belong to the Spanish idiosyncrasy: the strict priest, the Guardia Civil, the old devout women, the village idiot... there's even a lost soul wandering around the woods.
The great Alfredo Landa heads a cast that gathered together the best two generations of Spanish scene: from Fernando Rey to Encarna Paso, from Manuel Alexandre to María Isbert... A cast like that would be just unthinkable nowadays. "El Bosque Animado" was the first movie of José Luis Cuerda's trilogy of rural comedies (after this one he made the surreal "Amanece Que No Es Poco", and "Así En El Cielo Como En La Tierra". Those are movies so personal that stress the Spanish culture. The young directors should take note of films like "El Bosque Animado", instead of trying to be the new "enfant terrible" and imitating US worst cinema.
故事开始于林肯总统遇刺身亡之后，有八人因为谋杀总统而遭到了逮捕，42岁的玛丽（罗宾·怀特 Robin Wright 饰）是其中唯一的女性，玛丽经营着一间家庭旅馆，而刺杀总统的全部计划都是在这间旅馆的某个房间里诞生的。艾肯（詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊 James McAvoy 饰）是一位初出茅庐年轻有为的律师，他奉命为玛丽辩护，虽然艾肯知道就算有他的辩护，玛丽还是难逃死刑的惩罚，但还是决定走一遍流程。 然而，在和玛丽沟通交流后，艾肯渐渐开始怀疑，玛丽真的是无辜的，她只不过是被威胁和被利用的人质。没有人相信玛丽的清白，她的命完完整整的被捏在艾肯的手中。
