Espalda del mundo, La (2000)

Director:

Javier Corcuera

Writers:

Javier Corcuera (writer)
Elías Querejeta (writer)
(más)

Release Date:

6 octubre 2000 (Spain)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

This documentary looks at "the back of the world": small children working as quarrymen in Peru, Kurdish political refugees from Turkey, and families and inmates awaiting the end on Mississippi's Death Row. |

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A moving, solid and ethically committed film

Cast

Thomas Miller-El
Guinder Rodríguez
Mehdi Zana

Dirigida por
Javier Corcuera

Créditos del guión (in alphabetical order)
Javier Corcuera		writer
Fernando León de Aranoa		writer
Elías Querejeta		writer

Producida por
Elías Querejeta	....	producer

Música original por
Alfonso Arias

Fotografía por
Jordi Abusada

Montaje por
Iván Fernández
Nacho Ruiz Capillas

Departamento de sonido
Polo Aledo	....	sound
Iván Marín	....	sound
Julio Recuero	....	sound

Visual Effects
Óscar Perea Marcos	....	visual effects

Production Companies

• Elías Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas S.L.
• Televisión Española (TVE)
• Vía Digital

Distributors

• United International Pictures (Spain)

También conocida como:

The Back of the World (International: English title) (UK)

Duración:

89 min

País:

Spain

Idioma:

Español | English | Kurdish | Turkish | Quechua

Color:

Color

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Argentina:13 | Peru:14 | Spain:13

Company:

Elías Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas S.L.

A moving, solid and ethically committed film

This fine moving film was awarded the International Critics Award in San Sebastián International Film Festival (held in Spain every September). It's a shocking, artistically rock-solid and ethical film, very well made indeed.

It was ment to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. It's made up of three episodes or cases, following a logical progression - children's rights, the right to freedom of expression and the right to life. But it also speaks of hope.

The Spanish director and his international team have really succeeded in portraying social, racial and political exclusion - a moving document about our nowadays world, where citizens who are "different" live in both the Third and the First World.

"La Espalda del Mundo" / "The Back of the World" gives you the shivers while you see it and this restlessness endures even when you leave the cinema theater. As a critic said: <<I bet it won't stop you from having a good meal afterwards (nor from sleeping like a baby). "What can one do in view of how things stand, of so much misfortune?", you will say. Suffer for a while, bless your western-citizen luck, put up with a bad conscience for a while, give donations to non-governmental organizations which try to help the dispossessed of the earth?>>

It's good need having someone who dares to make us have an unresting bad time, not through fiction but through harsh, matter-of-fact reality, but with a hopeful message in it.