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Tras el cristal
- Runtime:
- 110 min.
- Year of Production:
- 1987
- Country:
- Spanien
- Director:
- Cast:
- Günter Meisner
David Sust
Marisa Paredes - Production Company:
- T.E.M. Productores S.A.
- Berlinale Category:
- Feature Film
A Nazi doctor who had a fetish for young boys feels guilt after torturing and murdering his latest victim, and throws himself off a roof. Some years later, the doctor, confined to an iron lung, accepts as his nurse a boy who secretly witnessed that killing.
A scandalous film at the time of making: an old Nazi and his young carer in Spain. A truly dark work about dark subject matters, the concealment and unrepentant nature of the post-fascist Spanish world when it had not yet begun to grapple analytically and politically with those grim times. In 2000 Vilaronga won the Manfred Salzgeber Prize with El Mar.
BIOGRAFIE Agustí Villaronga
Born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in 1953, his debut film TRAS EL CRISTAL (In a Glass Cage) screened at the Berlinale in 1986. He won the Goya Award for Best Director with PA NEGRE (Black Bread) in 2011.
FILMOGRAFIE Agustí Villaronga (selection)
2010 Pa negre
1997 99.9
1989 El niño de la luna
1987 Tras el cristal