Country: Spain
Year: 2013
Duration: 82'
Raul, an organic produce farmer, hires Iurie, a Moldavian wrestler who is desperate to find a job. The lives of the two men soon intersect those of Maria, an elderly woman who is forced to leave her home in the country for a hospice; Rose, a Filipino nurse who has just arrived in Spain; and Maribel, a prostitute who is steadily losing clients. Their lives are dominated by solitude; the economic crisis weighs on them all, destroying any certainties. The setting is the outskirts of Barcelona: industrial complexes, low-rent housing and highways offering the last glimpses of the countryside.
Biography
film director
Neus Ballús
Neus Ballús (Mollet del Vallès, Spain, 1980) studied film editing and directing at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He debuted in 2004 with the short documentary La Gabi and next directed The Grandad with a Movie Camera (2005), both of which were presented on the international festival circuit. In making Immersion (2009), he did all the shooting underwater, and the filming of La plaga (2013), his debut feature-length movie, lasted four years.
FILMOGRAFIA
La Gabi (cm, doc., 2004), The Grandad with a Movie Camera (cm, doc., 2005), Pepitu Ricu (cm, doc., 2006), Immersion (cm, doc., 2009), La plaga (doc., 2013).
Declaration
film director
“Because of this feeling of loneliness and uncertainty, I’ve always thought of The Plague as a contemporary western. Also because we’re talking about the life on the margins of the system, in a strange landscape, in the heat of the summer… And that’s something that I had always in mind in creating the aesthetic atmosphere of the film.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SOGGETTO
Neus Ballús
FOTOGRAFIA
Diego Dussuel
MONTAGGIO
Neus Ballús, Domi Parra
MUSICA
David Crespo
INTERPRETI
Raul Molist, Maria Ros, Rosemarie Abella, Iurie Timbur, Maribel Martí
PRODUTTORE
Judit Quintana
PRODUZIONE
El Kinògraf
COPRODUZIONE
Televisió de Catalunya, Arte France, Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals, Insituto de la Cinematografía y las Artes Audiovisuales
CONTATTI
Movies for Festivals
Johanna Tonini
Tel: +34 676 560 286
info.moviesforfestivals@gmail.com
www.moviesforfestivals.com
Neus Ballús
FOTOGRAFIA
Diego Dussuel
MONTAGGIO
Neus Ballús, Domi Parra
MUSICA
David Crespo
INTERPRETI
Raul Molist, Maria Ros, Rosemarie Abella, Iurie Timbur, Maribel Martí
PRODUTTORE
Judit Quintana
PRODUZIONE
El Kinògraf
COPRODUZIONE
Televisió de Catalunya, Arte France, Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals, Insituto de la Cinematografía y las Artes Audiovisuales
CONTATTI
Movies for Festivals
Johanna Tonini
Tel: +34 676 560 286
info.moviesforfestivals@gmail.com
www.moviesforfestivals.com
TFF
prizes
