Spanish: El laberinto del fauno, lit. The story takes place in Spain during the summer of 1944, five years after the Spanish Civil War, during the early Francoist period. Pan’s Labyrinth premiered on 27 May 2006 at the Cannes Film Festival. The film pan naked theatrically released by Warner Bros.
Pictures in Spain on 11 October and in Mexico on 20 October. Pan’s Labyrinth opened to widespread critical acclaim, with many praising the visual effects, direction, cinematography and performances. A novelization by Del Toro and Cornelia Funke was published in 2019. In a fairy tale, Princess Moanna, whose father is the king of the underworld, visits the human world, where the sunlight blinds her and erases her memory. She becomes mortal and eventually dies.
The king believes that eventually, her spirit will return to the underworld, so he builds labyrinths, which act as portals, around the world in preparation for her return. In 1944 Francoist Spain, ten-year-old Ofelia travels with her pregnant but sickly mother Carmen to meet Captain Vidal, her new stepfather. Vidal, the son of a famed commander who died in Morocco, believes strongly in Falangism and has been assigned to hunt down republican rebels. Ofelia completes the first task — retrieving a key from the belly of a giant toad — but becomes worried about her mother, whose condition is worsening. The faun gives Ofelia a mandrake root, instructing her to keep it under Carmen’s bed in a bowl of milk and regularly supply it with blood, which seems to ease Carmen’s illness. During this time, Ofelia quickly becomes aware of Vidal’s ruthlessness in the course of hunting down the rebels.