Tesis (1996)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.6/10   

Director:

Alejandro Amenábar

Escritores:

Alejandro Amenábar (screenplay)
Alejandro Amenábar (story) ...
(más)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

12 abril 1996 (Spain)

Género:

Horror | Misterio | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Me llamo Ángela. Me van a matar. [English Tagline: My name is Angela. They're going to kill me.]

Plot:

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...

Plot Keywords:

Violence | Film School | Oral Sex | Tunnel | Snuff Film

Premios:

14 wins & 4 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

If it were in English, it would have made millions

Reparto

Ana Torrent	...	Ángela
Fele Martínez	...	Chema
Eduardo Noriega	...	Bosco
Xabier Elorriaga	...	Castro
Miguel Picazo	...	Figueroa
Nieves Herranz	...	Sena
Rosa Campillo	...	Yolanda
Paco Hernández	...	Padre Angela (as Francisco Hernández)
Rosa Ávila	...	Madre Angela
Teresa Castanedo	...	Presentadora T.V.
José Miguel Caballero	...	Conserje Videoteca
Joserra Cadiñanos	...	Vigilante
Julio Vélez	...	Encargado tren
Pilar Ortega	...	Encargada C. Ventas
Olga Margallo	...	Vanessa
José Luis Cuerda	...	Profesor 1º
Emiliano Otegui	...	Profesor 2º
Walter Prieto	...	Vigilante Tren
Florentino Sainz	...	Anciano
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Helena Castañeda	...	(uncredited)

Dirigida por
Alejandro Amenábar

Créditos del guión
Alejandro Amenábar		(screenplay)
Alejandro Amenábar		(story) &
Mateo Gil		(story)

Producida por
Alejandro Amenábar	....	associate producer
Hans Burman	....	associate producer (as Hans Burmann)
Wolfgang Burmann	....	associate producer
José Luis Cuerda	....	executive producer
José Luis Cuerda	....	producer
Julio Madurga	....	associate producer
Emiliano Otegui	....	executive producer
María Elena Sáinz de Rozas	....	associate producer
Ricardo Steinberg	....	co-producer

Música original por
Alejandro Amenábar
Mariano Marín

Fotografía por
Hans Burman

Montaje por
María Elena Sáinz de Rozas

Diseño de producción por
Wolfgang Burmann

Diseño de vestuario por
Ana Cuerda

Departamento de maquillaje
Elisabeth Adánez	....	assistant makeup artist
Paca Almenara	....	makeup artist

Dirección de producción
Emiliano Otegui	....	production manager

Ayudante de dirección
Mateo Gil	....	assistant director
Raúl Otegui	....	second assistant director
Walter Prieto	....	first assistant director

Departamento de sonido
Sergio Bürmann	....	boom operator (as Sergio Burmann)
Manuel Corrales	....	sound effects
Pelayo Gutiérrez	....	sound editor
Alfonso Pino	....	sound mixer
Nacho Royo	....	sound effects editor
Ricardo Steinberg	....	sound (as Goldstein & Steinberg)

Efectos especiales
Reyes Abades	....	special effects

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Pablo Bürmann	....	assistant camera (as Pablo Burmann)
Wolfgang Burmann	....	assistant camera
Juan Carrión	....	gaffer
Pablo Carrión	....	electrician
Mateo Gil	....	video operator
Pedro López	....	electrician
Catalina Madurga	....	video assist operator
Julio Madurga	....	second assistant camera
Matías Nieto	....	still photographer
Francisco Ramos	....	key grip
José Sacristán	....	electrician

Departamento de Edición
Natalia Sáinz de Rozas	....	assistant editor

Departamento de Música
Mariano Marín	....	orchestrator
Javier Vacas	....	music mixer

Otros miembros del equipo
Jesús Alonso	....	production assistant
José Miguel Mendiola	....	financial controller
María Teresa Payero	....	production secretary

Gracias
Emma Penella	....	thanks

Compañías Productores

• Las Producciones del Escorpión S.L.
• Sogepaq

Distribuidores

• A-Film Home Entertainment (2003) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Argentina Video Home (199?) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Betta Entertainment (199?) (Brazil) (VHS)
• Bir Film (2003) (Turkey) (theatrical)
• Cinemagia (2004) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Filmfreak Distributie (2000) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• New Yorker Video (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• New Yorker Video (2003) (USA) (VHS)
• Quality Films (2006) (Mexico) (DVD)
• Scanbox Entertainment (????) (Finland) (DVD) (VHS)
• Scanbox Sweden (1997) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Tanelorn Films (USA) (DVD)
• Tanelorn Films (USA) (VHS)
• Three Lines Pictures (1997) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Universal Home Video (2005) (USA) (DVD) (uncut)
• Vanguard International Cinema (2003) (USA) (DVD)

También conocida como:

Thesis (UK) (festival title) (USA) (video title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong and perverse violent content, brief strong sexuality and strong language.

Duración:

125 min

País:

Spain

Idioma:

Español

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R18 | Argentina:16 | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | France:-16 | Germany:18 (video premiere) | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

Madrid, Spain

Compañía:

Las Producciones del Escorpión S.L.

Trivialidades:

When Angela (Torrent)is accessing the warranty database, director 'Amenabar, Alejandro''s name appears as a warranted customer of an XT-500 video camera.

Errores:

Continuidad: In the final garage scene, the height of the camera has changed from approximately waist level to head height.

Citas:

[last lines]
Title Card: WARNING: The following scenes may hurt the viewer's sensibility.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Muchachada nui: (#3.11)" (2009)

If it were in English, it would have made millions

Tesis is one of the finest Spanish films of the last 10 years. God help us if Tom Cruise remakes this first Amenabar gem as he has Abre los ojos> Vanilla Sky coming soon, blech! Using the iconic gaze of Ana Torrent--see her at 6 in Spirit of the Beehive or at 10 in Cria!-- Amenabar makes an obvious but still gripping statement about modern society's facination with violence in the media. Using phenomenal tracking shots, cross-referenced pov and suspenseful tension to maximum effect, he and his cast convert what could have been a hack DePalma style Hitchcock ripoff into art. An awareness of contemporary Spain certainly helps, as much that we Americans consider passe was fairly new over there at the time (not in 2001, alas.) Fele Martinez at his best, too.