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| Title: | Amazon Watch:
Chevron Texaco. Ecuador's black plague
Peru's Camisea project: risky business
Burlington resources in Ecuador; | | Director: | Greg Bernstein, Atossa Soltani, Amazon Watch | | Format: | 1 videodisc (29 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | New York : Witness, 2005 | | Language: | English
| | Notes: | WITNESS partner Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development including oil and gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects. This collection of videos examines globalization, multinationals, and the increasing focus on mega-projects to address the area's economic problems, which has led to environmental and cultural devastation in the region.
| | Plot: | Chevron Texaco. Ecuador's black plague (2002) (5 minutes)
Amazon Watch. Producer, Leila Salazar ; director, Greg Bernstein ; editor, Ariel López.
Documents the cancer and death from pollution and oil spills and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest area in Ecuador by Chevron Texaco.
Camisea: Risky Business (Perú: El Proyecto Camisea Un Negocio Riesgoso) (2003) (13 min.)
Directed by Amazon Watch. Produced by Atossa Soltani, United States 2004. language English with subtitles Spanish.
Peru's Camisea Gas Project is currently the most damaging project in the Amazon Basin. Located in the remote Urubamba Valley in the south-east Peruvian Amazon, the $1.6 billion project includes two pipelines to the Peruvian coast cutting through an Amazon biodiversity hotspot described by scientists as "the last place on earth" to drill for fossil fuels. Nearly 75 percent of gas extraction operations are located inside a State Reserve for indigenous peoples living with little or no contact with the outside world, who have been forcibly contacted by the Camisea consortia in violation of their internationally recognized rights. A gas processing plant is being built on the Peruvian coast within the buffer zone of a marine reserve of international significance. 2004.
Current information at:
http://www.amazonwatch.org/amazon/PE/camisea/
Burlington Resources in Ecuador (2004) 11 min.
Burlington's Oil Projects Vs. Indigenous Communities and Rainforest Protection.
Current information at:
http://www.amazonwatch.org/amazon/EC/burling/
| | Subjects: | Documentary Films. Peru. Ecuador. Petroleum industry and trade. Environmental aspects. Indigenous Communities. Amazon | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Besos de Gato / Cat Kisses | | Director: | Rafael Alcázar | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 82 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (NTSC, Region 2) | | Imprint: | Madrid: 2006 | | Language: | Spanish with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Blue Legend Productions, SL. Written by: Rafael Alcázar, Felipe Hernández Cava y Beda Docampo Freijoo; based in Alejandro Gándara´s Falso movimiento'. Producers: Federico Bermúdez de Castro y Álvaro Zapata. Music: Víctor Reyes. Actors: Juanjo Puigcorbé (Fran), Leticia Dolera (Carlota), Ruth Gabriel (Mara), Lola Marceli (Elvira), David Carrillo (Totó), Pepe Sancho (Turco), Antonio Resines (Dueño chocolatería), Imanol Arias (Anchoas), Antonio Dechent, Antonio Barroso.
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| | Plot: | Fran, un abogado de éxito, llega a su casa a cenar. Pero esta noche su hija Carlota no ha vuelto aún, -algo inusual en ella- y Fran, acuciado por su mujer, sale en su busca. Con las indicaciones de Totó , su otro hijo, a Fran no le resulta muy complicado dar con Carlota en una discoteca. Carlota le cuenta que su novio, Chema, ha desparecido y se niega a volver a casa sin haberle encontrado. Fran decide acompañar a su hija para buscarle. Se inicia entonces un complicado recorrido por la noche de la ciudad que, después de no pocas sorpresas, terminará al amanecer. Pero a la vez que buscan a Chema padre e hija emprenderán un difícil camino por encontrarse, conocerse y recuperar sus afectos. La noche acaba resultando dramática para Fran que se ve atrapado en medio de los errores de su vida. Pero no hará ascos a ningún sacrificio si con eso no solo puede lavar sus culpas si no recuperar el cariño de su hija.
Fran, a successful lawyer from Madrid, comes home for dinner. But tonight Carlota, his seventeen years old daugther, is not at home yet and Fran decides to go out to look for her. He does not find any difficult to get her out in a disco thanks Totó, his young son. Carlota does not know anything about her boyfriend and she refuses to come back home without any news from him. In this task, Fran decides to go out with her to know if Chema (Carlota´s boyfriend) is ok and then begins a hard and complicated night´s journey in the city, that will not end up before dawn. But, at the same time, the looking for Chema becomes the looking for themselves, the looking for the deepest and most hide feeling to the resort to be able to com e across again. Night turns dramatical for Fran who feels caught up between his own mistakes. But he will fight to the end not only for clearing his sins but also to recover the love of his daughter.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. Literary Adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Carretera y manta | | Director: | Alfonso Arandia | | Format: | 1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2) PAL | | Imprint: | Spain : FilmArt, S.L. ; Madrid : Distribuido por Sony Pictures Home Entertainmenty CIA, S.R.C ; United States: Columbia Tristar Home Video, 2005. | | Language: | Spanish; optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture 2000. Una comedia dirigida por Alfonso Arandia. Writer, Javier Echaniz; original music, Lucio Godoy; cinematography, Gonzalo F. Berridi. Performer Natalia Verbeke, Jordi Bosch, Eduardo Noriega, Carmen Maura. Awards Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actress (Carmen Maura), 2001.
| | Plot: | An aging chef and her husband, who is out of jail on weekend parole, decide to flee to Rio de Janeiro, where she plans to open her own restaurant. The couple's car breaks down, and so they kidnap a young couple to aid them in their escape.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cha cha chá | | Director: | Antonio del Real | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Miami, Fla.: Distribuido por Venevision International, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish, with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1998 motion picture. Sogepaq S.A. presenta una producción de César Benítez para Sogetel ; en asociación 5 Telecinco y la participación de Canal+ ; productor ejecutivo, Cesar Benitez ; guión, Fernando Leon y Carlos Asorey Brey ; director, Antonio del Real. Director de fotográfia y camara, Juan Amoros ; director artisitico, Luis Valles ; montador, Miguel A. Santamaria ; música original, Pablo Miyar ; director de producción, Alejandro Vázquez. Participants: Eduardo Noriega, Ana Alvarez, Maria Adánez, Jorge Sanz, Gabino Diego, Marta Belaustegui, Elisa Matilla, Antonio Medina.
| | Plot: | Antonio del Real directed this Spanish romantic comedy focusing on ad-agency career girl Lucia (Ana Alvarez) and her best friend, dance teacher Maria (Maria Adanez). Maria's boyfriend is the sexist Pablo (Jorge Sanz). One night Lucia puts away too much alcohol, sleeps with Pablo, and hatches a plan to have Pablo all to herself by finding a new man for Maria. She chooses unemployed actor Antonio (Eduardo Noriega), a handsome guy but not too bright. Since Antonio's brain in Spain is mainly on the wane, Lucia is forced to do a My Fair Lady upgrade on the raw material -- by educating Antonio during several Pygmalion-styled sessions.
| | Subjects: | Feature films, Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | De ida y vuelta / Back and forth (To and fro) | | Director: | Salvador Aguirre | | Format: | 1 videodisc (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Costa Mesa, CA : Condor Media : Distributed by Vanguard Cinema, 2002 | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles
| | Notes: | Originally produced in 2000 as a motion picture. Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, et al. ; screenplay, Salvador Aguirre, Alejandro Lubezki, Geronimo D. ; producers, Angeles Castro Gurria, Hugo Rodriguez ; director Salvador Aguirre. Cinematography, Geronimo Denti ; editor, Moises Ortiz Urquidi ; music, Jorge Fratta. Participants: Tiaré Scanda, Gerardo Taracena, Ricardo Esquerra
| | Plot: | Filiberto, a Mexican migrant worker, returns to his home town after working for three years in the United States.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Mexico. United States. Migrant labor. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Eres mi héroe / You're my hero | | Director: | Antonio Cuadri | | Format: | 1 videodisc (93 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (Region 2) NTSC | | Imprint: | London : Parasol Peccadillo Releasing, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish language with English and French subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003. A Maverick Entertainment release ; produced by Maufacturas Audiovisuales S.L. in coproduction with Caligari Films S.A. and Canal Sur TV ; director, Antonio Cuadri ; script, Antonio Cuadri, Miguel Angel Perez,
Carlos Asorey. Participants: Manuel Lozano, Toni Canto, Antonio Dechent, Maru Valdivielso, Juan Fernandez, Felix Lopez.
| | Plot: | "Adolescence is the most important period of our lives and this was certainly the case for 13 year-old Ramon. In addition to being a time of discovery, he was confused and apprehensive in a time when everything was in doubt-the future, school, studies, sex and particularly communication with the older generation. He had moved from town to town all his life and was shy and awkward. The odds were against him from the start and life was never going to be easy. He thought that life was about winning and losing but soon learned that it is all about survival."--Container.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Garifunas holding ground | | Director: | Ronit Avni and Suzanne Shende | | Format: | 1 videodisc (11 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | | Imprint: | New York : Witness, 2002 | | Language: | English
| | Notes: | a Witness production in collaboration with the Comité de Emergencia Garífuna de Honduras ; written and produced by Ronit Avni and Suzanne Shende. Participants: Narrator, Suzanne Shende ; commentary, Julian Martinez, Leocadia Gutierrez.
| | Plot: | Looks at the struggle by the Afro-indigenous Garifuna in Honduras to protect their ancestral lands from environmental destruction as they fight to shut down an illegal highway that is destroying crops, old growth forest and water supplies.
| | Subjects: | Documentary Films. Honduras. Black Carib Indians. Claims.
Land tenure. Deforestation. Environmental degradation.Human rights. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Los sin nombre / Els sense nom / The nameless | | Director: | Jaume Balaguero | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2) | | Imprint: | Madrid: Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2005 | | Language: | Dialogue in Spanish with optional soundtrack in English, with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999. Based on the novel by Ramsey Campbell. iramax Films, Filmax International and Julio Fernández present a Joan Ginard P.C. and Sogedasa production ; a film by Jaume Balagueró ; producers, Julio Fernández, Joan Ginard ; screenplay and direction, Jaume Balaguero.
| | Plot: | Sanish director Jaime Balaguero brings us this jet black horror thriller. Claudia (Emma Vilarasau) and Marc's beloved six-year old daughter Angela, dies under mysterious circumstances. Flash forward five years, and Marc has left while Claudia wiles away her time watching family videos of happier times. Angela suddenly inexplicably calls saying "They wanted you to believe I was dead." Claudia immediately calls an ex-cop, Massera (Karra Elejalde), to investigate the matter. To make matters worse, Claudia finds herself stalked by psychotic ex-boyfriend Toni, who simply radiates evil. As the movie progresses, Massera and Quiroga (Tristan Ulloa), a journalist who works for a magazine specializing in the occult, uncover a bizarre sadistic cult that sacrifices children.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. Literary Adaptation. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Muslim Spain | | Director: | Zahir Ahmed. | | Format: | 1 videodisc (108 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Palos Verdes, CA : Islamic Video Productions, Inc., 2004 | | Language: | English
| | Notes: | Written, directed and produced by Zahir Ahmed.
| | Plot: | This video documentary presents the Muslim history of Spain
| | Subjects: | Documentary Films. Spain . Islam.
Architecture, Islamic. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Nos miran / They're watching us | | Director: | Norberto López Amado | | Format: | 1 videodisc (104 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | S.l.] : Venevision International ; Burbank, CA : Boca Boca Producciones, c2005 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue; optional English or Spanish subtitles
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. Based on the novel by Javier García Sánchez titles Los Otros. Boca Boca Producciones con la participación de Canal+ y TVE presentan un film de Norberto López ; productor César Benítez ; guión Jorge Guerricaechevarría. Cinematography, Néstor Calvo; film editing, Ma. Elena Sáinz de Rozas; music, Bingen Mendizábal, Borja Ramos. Performer Carmelo Gómez, Iciar Bollaín, Máximo Ghini, Margarita Lozano, Manuel Lozano, Carolina Petterson.
| | Plot: | Nos Miran is a supernatural thriller in which a detective investigating the strange disappearance of a businessman uncovers evidence that the living aren't alone. Are we really being watched from the other side?
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. Literary Adaptation | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Novios / Sweethearts | | Director: | Joaquín Oristrell | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD [PAL] (region 2) | | Imprint: | Madrid : Aurum Producciones, S.A. : Boca/Boca Producciones : Paramount Pictues c2005. | | Language: | Spanish; optional English or Spanish subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1998 motion picture. Una película de Joaquín Oristrell ; producida por Boca Televisión S.A., Aurum Producciones S.A. ; en asociación con Telecinco y Canal+ ; producida por César Benítez, Joaquín Oristrell, Manuel Gómez Pereira. Director, Joaquín Oristrell ; screenplay, Joaquín Oristrell, Dominic Harari, Teresa de Pelegri ; director of photography, Hans Bürman ; original music, Suso Saiz. Director, Joaquín Oristrell ; screenplay, Joaquín Oristrell, Dominic Harari, Teresa de Pelegri ; director of photography, Hans Bürman ; original music, Suso Saiz. Special features include trailer, filmographies, television spots, photo gallery, and a making of featurette.
| | Plot: | Arturo, a successful restaurateur, is having an affair with his assistant Cristal. When he tells her that he will reveal the extent of their relationship to his wife Paz, Cristal starts dreaming of life as a housewife. Their plans fall through. In revenge, Cristal focuses on Arturo's son, Arturito. She tries to wed Arturito to punish Arturo.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Oh Marbella! | | Director: | Piers Ashworth | | Format: | 1 videodisc (86 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD NTSC. (Region 2) | | Imprint: | London: Versatile Film, 2005 | | Language: | English or German.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 2003 motion picture. Directed By: Piers Ashworth. Written By: Piers Ashworth. Damien Binns. Actors: Tom Bellm, Rik Mayall, Mike Reid, Lara Belmont, Craig Kelly.
| | Plot: | This comedy, which has some rather stereotyped but still amusing characters in a fast-paced fairly intelligent Britcom, is set on the Costa Del Sol in Southern Spain. The film is rather short, but it adds up to a decent, light evening's entertainment, with some decent comedic high spots. A number of familiar & skilled character actors pop up during the film and Rik Mayall & Eddie Webber were good to watch in their respective roles as a slimy estate agent and timeshare victim. It will come as no surprise that both Tom Bell & Mike Reid were perfectly cast as aging gangsters.
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Para que no me olvides | | Director: | Patricia Ferreira | | Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 2). NTSC | | Imprint: | Madrid: Continental Producciones; Tornasol Films, 2006. | | Language: | Spanish or Portuguese with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videodisc release of the 2005 motion picture, Guión: Virginia Yagüe y Patricia Ferreira. Producción: Pancho Casal.
Fotografía: Marcelo Camorino. Montaje: Carmen Frías. Dirección artística: Félix Murcia y Federico G. Cambero.
Vestuario: Bina Daigeler. Interpretación: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Emma Vilarasau, Marta Etura, Roger Coma, Víctor Mosqueira, Mónica García, Marisa de Leza, Ana Cuerdo, José Luis Agudo, Jorge de Benito, Santi Ruiz
| | Plot: | Irene lives with her son David, a young architecture student, and with her father Mateo, an old man who is full of life despite his tragic history: he was practically a child during the Spanish Civil War and during the post-war repression, he lost his home and his entire family. David found Clara, or she found him, at the large supermarket nearby where she is a cashier. They not only love but also understand each other. As the only child of separated parents, David cannot escape his mother’s hostility towards a relationship she feels is not good for him, as it puts his personal and professional future in jeopardy. Irene is deeply committed to her job directing a theater group of blind people, but at home there is a growing gap she cannot see how to bridge. Mateo holds them all together, perhaps due to his age, his experience, or his good nature. He might seem to be not of this world but only because the world is much bigger than it looks and his place in it is essential, as a person recovering his dignity, like all those who were trampled by a terrible war and an implacable regime. Their lives are much like our own. Until one day, an unexpected event will put them to the test and they will have to learn to live all over again, as each of them discovers what he or she did not know about the others..
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Piedras | | Director: | Ramón Salazar; | | Format: | 1 videodisc (130 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD 9 [PAL] (region 2). | | Imprint: | London: Cinema Club, 2004. | | Language: | Spanish; optional English subtitles
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. Alquimia Cinema presents a production of Alquimia Cinema and Ensueño Films ; in collaboration with Telemadrid ; with the participation of Vía Digital and A3 TV ; a Francisco Ramos production ; a Ramón Salazar film. Writer and director, Ramón Salazar; original music, Pascal Gaigne; cinematography, David Carretero; film editing, Teresa Font. Performer Antonia San Juan, Najwa Nimri, Vicky Peña, Mónica Cervera, Ángela Molina. Awards Butaca Award for Best Catalan Film Actress (Vicky Peña), 2002. Flanders International Film Festival: Audience Award, 2002. Galway Film Fleadh: Audience Award for Best First Feature, 2002. San Francisco International Film Festival SK YY Prize--Honorable Mention, 2003. Stockholm Film Festival: Best Actress & Best Directorial Debut, 2002.
| | Plot: | "Tells the story of five women in Madrid ... different on the surface but having more in common than is expected, they are all looking for a new start and as they all appear to lead different lives at the beginning their fates soon become intertwined"--Container.
Cinco mujeres recorren las calles de Madrid en busca de un príncipe azul... con un zapato en la mano; son una mujer con pies planos que regenta un club y su hija que usa deportivas, una señora rica de pies pequeños enamorada de su podólogo, una ex-diseñadora que siempre lleva zapatos de tacón y una taxista con babuchas.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Women. Madrid. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Torapia | | Director: | Karra Elejalde | | Format: | 1 videodisc (98in.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (Region 2) PAL | | Imprint: | Madrid: Aurum, 2005 | | Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture 2004. Directed by Karra Elejalde. Written by: Karra Elejalde. Music: Bingen Mendizábal. Photography by Kiko de la Rica. Actors: Karra Elejalde, Juan Diego, Gloria Muñoz, Silvia Bel, Eduardo Antuña, Pepín Tré, Paco Obregón, Xavier Capdet, Carlos Zabala, Javier Gurruchaga, Pepo Oliva
| | Plot: | Torapia (Bull Therapy) tells the story of Basilio, a failed pety thief who needs to find his way into a mental hospital in order to recover a priceless diamond necklace., “Any sane person who becomes a patient in a mental institution will soon challenge his own mental sanity, especially if he had earlier signs of a mental disorder”., During his stay in the hospital, Basilio has unexpectedly fallen in love and made new friends. During his stay, he’s going to discover a lot about his true identity which will drive him to the extreme in his search of the precious necklace., Torn between two “horns”, Basilio as well as the other characters will push the plot to the craziest levels ever seen in a demented-vaudeville.
Basilio, un carterista sin suerte, ingresa en una institución mental para recuperar un valioso collar de diamantes que pasó brevemente por sus manos y cuyo valor fue incapaz de reconocer. Una vez dentro del -hablando en plata- manicomio, Basilio tratará de utilizar todas las habilidades propias de su oficio para sortear las amenazas que le impiden llegar hasta su objetivo: la impaciente e ilegítima ambición de científicos como Hipólito , las embestidas de toreros altruistas como Rufino , los convenios socio-terapéuticos de Paca o el deseo incombustible de una fotofóbica enamorada, Amanda. Al final, la única escapatoria para Basilio será someterse a la "Torapia", una innovadora terapia experimental que conecta al hombre con la bestia que todos llevamos dentro, o casi dentro. (FILMAFFINITY)
| | Subjects: | Feature Films. Spain | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Tuno negro / Black serenade | | Director: | Pedro L. Barbero and Vicente J. Martín | | Format: | 1 videodisc (110 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) | | Imprint: | Thousand Oaks, CA : Studio Latino, 2004 | | Language: | Spanish dialogue; optional English subtitles
| | Notes: | Originally produced as a motion pcture in 2001. Una producción Iberoamericana Films Producción S.A., y Lolafilms S.A., y Telecinco con participación la Via Digital. Directors/writers, Pedro L. Barbero, Vicente J. Martín ; music, Roque Baños; cinematography, Carlos Suarez. Performer Silke, Jorge Sanz, Fele Martinez, Eusebio Poncela, Maribel Verdú.
| | Plot: | A psychopathic killer selects his victims from the internet and begins preying on students at a university in Salamanca, Spain. A new student has discovered a pattern to the killings. She tracks the killer using art history to decipher the clues.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Horror films. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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