COUNTRY
Spain
PRODUCTION
Tem Productores Asociados
YEAR1986
DURATION111 min
WRITING Agustí Villaronga
CINEMATOGRAPHY Jaume Peracaula
MUSIC
Javier Navarrete
EDITION Raúl Román
CAST Günter Meisner, David Sust, Marisa Paredes, Gisela Echevarría, Imma Colomer
DISTRIBUTION Centre de Conservació i Restauració (2CR) de la Filmoteca de Catalunya
INTERNATIONAL SALES Filmoteca de Catalunya
CONTACT josepcalle@gencat.cat
SYNOPSIS Klaus, a former Nazi child-killer, suffers an accident after torturing and murdering a child, which confines him to living in an iron lung in an old mansion. His wife hires him a full-time carer, Ángleo, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.
Agustí Villaronga
Palma de Mallorca, 1953 - Barcelona, 2023. Director, screenwriter and actor. His first jobs in the world of cinema were varied, becoming production and costume designer, stylist and decorator. After making several short films, he surprises with his first feature film,
Tras el cristal in 1986, which manages to enter the Berlin Film Festival. This was followed by personal projects such as
El niño de la Luna in 1989, and
Aro Tolbukhin in 2002, commissions such as
El pasajero clandestino in 1995 and
99.9 in 1997, and film adaptations of novels in which his personal vision is still present, such as
El mar in 2000,
Pa negre in 2010 and
Incierta gloria in 2017.
FILMOGRAPHY
Loli Tormenta (feature film, 2023),
El ventre del mar (feature film, 2021),
Nacido rey (feature film, 2019),
Incerta glòria (feature film, 2017),
El rey de La Habana (feature film, 2015),
El testament de la Rosa (feature film, 2015),
Pa negre (feature film, 2010),
Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino (feature film, 2002),
El mar (feature film, 2000),
99.9 (feature film, 1997),
El niño de la luna (feature film, 1989),
Tras el cristal (feature film, 1986)
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