In the future (2012), Spain is dominated by physical beauty and a gang of disabled people carries out incursions against gyms, plastic surgery clinics and wellness centers. Their new raid is the kidnapping of a young heiress, who is transported to the mining planet Axturiax, where her ransom is to be paid. Baroque, grotesque, imaginative, the feature-length debut of de la Iglesia, produced by the Almodóvar brothers.
Biography
film director
Álex de la Iglesia
FILMOGRAFIA
Mirindas asesinas (cm, 1991), Acción mutante (Azione mutante, 1993), El día de la bestia (Il giorno della bestia, 1995), Perdita Durango (id., 1997), Muertos de risa (1999), La Comunidad (La comunidad - Intrigo all’ultimo piano, 2000), 800 balas (2002), Crimen perfecto (Crimen perfecto - Finché morte non li separi, 2004), La habitacion del niño (La stanza del bambino, tv, 2006), The Oxford Murders (Oxford Murders - Teorema di un delitto, 2008), Balada triste de trompeta (Ballata dell’odio e dell’amore, 2010), La chispa de la vida (La fortuna della vita, 2011), Las brujas de Zugarramurdi (Le streghe son tornate, 2013), Messi (2014), Mi gran noche (2015)
Cast
& Credits
Álex de la Iglesia
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Álex de la Iglesia
fotografia/cinematography
Carles Gusi
montaggio/film editing
Pablo Blanco
scenografia/production design
José Luis Arrizabalaga, Biaffra
costumi/costume design
Estíbaliz Markiegi, Lena Mossum
musica/music
Def Con Dos
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Antonio Resines (Ramón Yarritu), Álex Angulo (Alex Abadie), Frédérique Feder (Patricia Orujo), Juan Viadas (Juan Abadie), Karra Elejalde (José Óscar «Manitas» Tellería)
produttori/producers
Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar