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Overview

User Rating:
7.6/10   8,843 votes
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Writers:
Alejandro Amenábar (screenplay)
Alejandro Amenábar (story) ...
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Release Date:
12 April 1996 (Spain) more
Tagline:
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... full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
14 wins & 4 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
First stills from Amenábar's 'Agora'
 (From screeninglog. 1 December 2008, 7:14 PM, PST)

Spanish horror vets team on new thriller
 (From Fangoria. 20 November 2008, 1:57 PM, PST)

User Comments:
Very good first feature more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
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
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Thesis (UK) (festival title) (USA) (video title)
Faszination des Grauens (Germany) [de]
Halálos tézis (Hungary) [hu]
Snuff (Sweden) (DVD box title) [sv]
Snuff-Movie (Sweden) [sv]
Tesis (Greece) [el]
Tesis (France) [fr]
Tez (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong and perverse violent content, brief strong sexuality and strong language.
Runtime:
125 min
Country:
Spain
Language:
Spanish
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Madrid, Spain

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The film had a relatively small budget of P116 million - equal to about 696,000 EUROS. more
Goofs:
Boom mic visible: When Angela runs out of Castro's office, a boom mic is reflected in the door, just before he yells to her. more
Quotes:
Bosco Herranz: What color are my eyes? more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Muchachada nui: (#3.11)" (2009) more

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8 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
Very good first feature, 31 January 2002
8/10
Author: vostf from Paris, Fr

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).

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