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While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...
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| Ana Torrent | ... | Ángela | |
| Fele Martínez | ... | Chema | |
| Eduardo Noriega | ... | Bosco Herranz | |
| Xabier Elorriaga | ... | Castro | |
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Miguel Picazo | ... | Figueroa |
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Nieves Herranz | ... | Sena |
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Rosa Campillo | ... | Yolanda |
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Paco Hernández | ... | Padre Angela (as Francisco Hernández) |
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Rosa Ávila | ... | Madre Angela |
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Teresa Castanedo | ... | Presentadora T.V. |
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José Miguel Caballero | ... | Conserje Videoteca |
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Joserra Cadiñanos | ... | Vigilante |
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Julio Vélez | ... | Encargado tren |
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Pilar Ortega | ... | Encargada C. Ventas |
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Olga Margallo | ... | Vanessa |
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Why is death and violence so fascinating? Is it morally correct to show violence in movies? If so, is there a limit to what we should show? That's the subject of Ángela's examination paper. She is a young student at a film school in Madrid. Together with the student Chema (who is totally obsessed with violent movies) they find a snuff movie in which a young girl is tortured and killed. Soon they discover that the girl was a former student at their school... Written by Mattias Pettersson <seaman@sbbs.se>
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oral sex | giallo esque | male in a shower | man wears eyeglasses | boy wears eyeglasses |Taglines:
Me llamo Ángela. Me van a matar. [English Tagline: My name is Angela. They're going to kill me.]Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for strong and perverse violent content, brief strong sexuality and strong language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Title Card: WARNING: The following scenes may hurt the viewer's sensibility.
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The film had a relatively small budget of P116 million - equal to about 696,000 EUROS. See more »Goofs
When Professor Figueroa finds the door to the secret library, before he enters, he wears glasses. In he next shot, as he enters the door, the glasses are gone, but they come back some shots after. See more »Quotes
[last lines]Title Card: WARNING: The following scenes may hurt the viewer's sensibility.
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12 April 1996 (Spain) See more »Also Known As:
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EUR721,214 (estimated)Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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A promising director: it's what I thought after the screening of Amenabar's first feature. There is a compelling story told with bright creative ideas.
Eventually I felt the first part of the movie was really great and the following went a little under. Sure, it is more difficult to bring all sorts of things together after you built up an exciting suspense. Still you don't feel bored once you are getting to know what it is really all about, but you got more free 'RAM space' to think it over. Perhaps accelerating the rhythm would have kept Tesis on the same high level of suspense. Perhaps it would have been a mistake to change the pace.
Among things you can take away with you is the background theme about our attraction for the morbid. It opens and closes the movie and really gives it one further dimension - one could say it's a bit didactical but it's a least flaw for a first major effort.
Next step Senor Amenabar: a little less personal work (as compared with the experimental Abre los ojos) but still something personal (The Others is the least interesting work so far).