Visionary director Guillermo del Toro creates a unique richly imagined epic with Pan's Labyrinth a gothic fairy tale set against the postwar era of Franco's Spain.Pan's Labyrinth unfolds through the eyes of Ofelia a young girl uprooted to a remote military outpost commanded by her new stepfather. Powerless and lonely in a place of great danger Ofelia lives out her own dark fable as she confronts monsters both otherworldly and human after she discovers a neglected labyrinth behind the family home. There she meets Pan a fantastical creature who challenges her with three tasks which he claims will reveal her true identity.
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