La habitación de Fermat (2007)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Directors:

Luis Piedrahita
Rodrigo Sopeña

Writers:

Luis Piedrahita (written by)
Rodrigo Sopeña (written by)

Release Date:

16 November 2007 (Spain)

Genre:

Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Think inside the box

Plot:

Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma...

Plot Keywords:

Mathematician | Shrinking Room | Shrinking | Villain | Suspense

Awards:

4 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Lluís Homar	...	Hilbert
Alejo Sauras	...	Galois
Elena Ballesteros	...	Oliva
Santi Millán	...	Pascal
Federico Luppi	...	Fermat
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Núria Badia	...	Recepcionist
Víctor Benjumea	...	Gas Station Attendant
Ariadna Cabrol	...	Girl
Helena Carrión	...	Library assistant
Cesc Cornet	...	Boy
Juanma Falcón	...	Boy
Alicia Fernández	...	Girl
David Fernández	...	Policeman
Josep Minguell	...	Doctor
Adam Nached	...	Boy
Mariola Ruiz	...	Nurse
San Yélamos	...	Girl

Also Known As:

Fermat's Room (International: English title)
L'habitació de Fermat (Spain: Catalan title)
De kamer van Fermat (Belgium: Flemish title) [un]
Fermat' tuba (Estonia) [et]
Fermatuv pokoj (Czech Republic) [cs]
Kapan (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
La cellule de Fermat (France) [fr]
O Enigma de Fermat (Portugal) [pt]
Qube Red (Japan: English title) [en]
Zapadnja Ferma (Russia) [ru]

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Certification:

Netherlands:9

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Company:

Notro Films

Quotes:

Pascal: The world is as it was.

Movie Connections:

References Labyrinth (1986)

Soundtrack:

Preludio en Si menor BWV 855

Technically impossible

I only saw this film yesterday, 8/15/09.

Has any of you geniuses realized that it is physically impossible for all four walls to close in on each other? Star Wars showed it correctly with two walls closing against each other. How else could it possibly be done unless it was a progressive closure/collapse with say a 1-foot vertical section breaking away alternately from first the North-South walls and then the East-West walls and on and on. That isn't the way it was shown. Only two opposing walls were closing on each other.

Also, the solution to the three children's' ages has several solutions besides 9-2-2. How about 4-3-3? Or 6-3-2? Or 9-4-1? If I don't recall another governing criteria, I apologize.

The solution to the Wolf-sheep-cabbage-shepherd problem is to bring the sheep over first. All else falls into place after that.

Other than that I enjoyed it.

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