Tesis
| Tesis | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Alejandro Amenábar |
| Produced by | Emiliano Otegui José Luis Cuerda |
| Written by | Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil |
| Starring | Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Ana Torrent |
| Music by | Alejandro Amenábar |
| Cinematography | Hans Burman |
| Editing by | María Elena Sáinz de Rozas |
| Release date(s) | 1995 |
| Running time | 125 min, (Mexico: 118 min) |
| Country |  Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget | Pts116,000,000 |
Tesis (Thesis) is a 1996 Spanish film. It is the feature debut of director Alejandro Amenábar, and was written by him and Mateo Gil. The movie won seven 1996 Goya Awards (and was nominated for an eighth), including the award for Best Film. It stars Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez and Eduardo Noriega. The 1999 film 8mm was loosely based on this movie.
[edit] Plot synopsis
Ángela (Torrent) is a film student at the Madrid's University Complutense. Searching for research material for her thesis (hence the film's title) on audio-visual violence, she attains the friendship of Chema (Martínez), a fellow student and introvert with an encyclopedic collection of violent and pornographic films.
After her professor dies while watching a film she steals the videotape, discovering that it is a snuff film featuring a girl whom Chema recognizes as a former student at the university - and a former associate of current student Bosco (Noriega). Investigating the origins of the tape, they are drawn into the operations of a chilling snuff ring.
[edit] Production notes
The film was shot quickly, in five and a half weeks, preceded by a month of rehearsals, on a very low budget: Pts116 million - equal to about €696,000.
[edit] External links
- Tesis at the Internet Movie Database
- Tesis at AllRovi
- (Spanish) Profile from Amenábar.com
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