Movies - Tesis

	Movies - Tesis

Tesis (Thesis) is a 1996 Spanish film. The feature debut of director Alejandro Amenábar, and written by him and Mateo Gil, it won seven 1997 Goya Awards (and was nominated for an eighth), including the award for Best Film. It stars Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez and Eduardo Noriega.

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 she and Chema recognize as another student at the university - and a former girlfriend of current student Bosco (Noriega). Investigating the origins of the tape, they are drawn into the operations of a chilling snuff ring.

Major cast

Fele Martínez as Chema
Eduardo Noriega
as Bosco Herranz
Ana Torrent as Ángela Márquez

Trivia

The film was shot in a relatively short five and a half week shoot, preceded by a month of rehearsals.
The film had a relatively small budget of P116 million - equal to about €696,000.
Amenábar wrote some of this film while still at University, and that University was the Complutense, as featured in this film.
One of the teachers who kept failing Amenábar at University had his name used in the film - as the sinister Professor Castro.
Amenábar's name is visible at one point in the film - on a computer screen listing Sony XT-500 customers. (The XT-500 is a video camera which features prominently within the film itself.)

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Movies - Tesis

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