Country: Spain, Romania, Russia, France
Year: 2013
Duration: 116'
Carlos is a shy and reserved tailor who lives a secluded life in Granada. Nobody suspects that he is actually a ruthless cannibal who seeks the company of Eastern European women to kill them, chop them up, store their flesh in a freezer so he can eat them. But then Nina, the twin sister one of his victims, knocks at his door looking for information about the missing sibling. An unexpected feeling slowly warms up in Carlo. For a man used to committing the most unspeakable monstrosity of all, love is a difficult and dangerous experience.
Biography
film director
Manuel Martín Cuenca
Manuel Martín Cuenca (Almería, Spain, 1964) started working as an assistant director for Felive Vega, Alain Tanner, and Icíar Bollaín. He made his debut as a director in 1990 with the short film El día blanco and again in 2001 with the feature-length documentary film The Cuban Game, which won the Festival de Málaga. He participated to the San Sebastián Film Festival in 2003 with the fiction feature The Weakness of the Bolshevik, and again in 2005 with Malas Temporadas. He received a nomination for best documentary at the Goya Awards for Últimos testigos: Carrillo Comunista (2009). He started the production company Loma Blanca in 2004, and Lagartos Editores in 2009, a publishing company for young Andalusian authors.
FILMOGRAFIA
El dia blanco (cm, 1990), Hombres sin mujeres (cm, 1999), Nadie (Un cuento de invierno) (cm, 2000), El juego de Cuba (doc., 2001), Cuatros puntos cardinales (2002), La flaqueza del bolchevique (2003), Madrid 11M - Todos íbamos in este train (ep. Españoles por vía de sangre, aa.vv., 2004), Malas temporadas (2005), El tesoro (tv, 2008), Últimos testigos: Carrillo Comunista (doc., 2009), La mitad de Óscar (2010), Caníbal (2013).
Declaration
film director
In the film, cannibalism is just a metaphor for evil. We were interested in how it represented something bad in our society. It’s about the presence of evil in all of us, connecting with the normality of our lives, in its banality. Cannibal is a demon’s love story: what would happen if a demon fell in love? If love made him question his actions?”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA
Manuel Martín Cuenca
SOGGETTO
da un racconto di/from a short story by Humberto Arenal
SCENEGGIATURA
Manuel Martín Cuenca, Alejandro Hernández
FOTOGRAFIA
Pau Esteve Birba
MONTAGGIO
Angel Hernández Zoido
SCENOGRAFIA
Isabel Viñuales
SUONO
Eva Valiño, Pelayo Gutiérrez, Nacho Royo-Villanova
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Antonio de la Torre (Carlos), Olimpia Melinte (Nina)
PRODUTTORI
Fernando Bovaira, Simon de Santiago, Manuel Martín Cuenca, Alejandro Hernández
PRODUZIONE
La Loma Blanca PC, MOD Producciones, Libra Film, CTB Film Company LTD, Luminor
Manuel Martín Cuenca
SOGGETTO
da un racconto di/from a short story by Humberto Arenal
SCENEGGIATURA
Manuel Martín Cuenca, Alejandro Hernández
FOTOGRAFIA
Pau Esteve Birba
MONTAGGIO
Angel Hernández Zoido
SCENOGRAFIA
Isabel Viñuales
SUONO
Eva Valiño, Pelayo Gutiérrez, Nacho Royo-Villanova
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Antonio de la Torre (Carlos), Olimpia Melinte (Nina)
PRODUTTORI
Fernando Bovaira, Simon de Santiago, Manuel Martín Cuenca, Alejandro Hernández
PRODUZIONE
La Loma Blanca PC, MOD Producciones, Libra Film, CTB Film Company LTD, Luminor
