WHISKY
SYNOPSIS
A 60-year old man, owner of a sock factory, arranges with one of his employees to pretend to be his wife during the visit of his successful brother, Old wounds reappear between the siblings when the visiting brother and the fake wife engage in a subtle pathetic game of seduction.
| DIRECTOR | Pablo Stoll & Juan Pablo Rebella |
| YEAR | 2004 |
| STATUS | completed |
| FESTIVALS AWARDS | Cannes 2004 "Un certain regards" won "Prix du regard original" & "Fipresci price" - Tokyo IFF 2004 "Tokyo Grand Prix" & "Award For Best Performance by an Actress in Leading Role" for Mirella Pascual - Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva 2004 won "Colón de Oro" - Thessaloniki Film Festival 2004 won Best Screenplay Award & Best Actress Award - Havana Film Festival 2004 "Coral Award" for best Fiction Film - Spain's Academy Awards 2005 "GOYA" for best foreign Spanish-language film |
| CAST | Andrés Pazos Mirella Pascual Jorge Bolani with special appearances by Anna Katz and Daniel Hendler |
| CO PRODUCTION WITH | A Control-Z Films (Montevideo)in co-production with Rizoma Films (Buenos Aires) Pandora Film Produktion (Cologne) in association with Wanda Visión (Madrid) and Canal Plus |
| SUPPORTED BY | Filmstiftung NRW Fona MVD Socio Audiovisual I.N.C.A.A. Flobal Film Initiative Amiens International Film Festival Screenplay Development Fund |
| WORLD SALES | Bavaria Film International |
| GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR | Pandora Film Verleih |
| LENGTH | 94 min. |
| FORMAT | colour 35mm 1:1.85 Dolby SR-D |
| SHOOTING LOCATION | Uruguay |
| ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | Spanish |
| PRODUCERS | Fernando Epstein (producer) Hernán Musaluppi (co-producer) Christoph Friedel (co-producer) José María Morales (co-producer) |
| WRITERS | Gonzalo Delgado Juan Pablo Rebella Pablo Stoll |
| CASTING | |
| DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Bárbara Álvarez |
| PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT | Manuel Nieto Zas (assistant director) Diego Fernández Parker (production manager) |
| EDITING | Fernando Epstein |
| MUSIC | Pequena Orquesta Reincidentes |
| SOUND | Catriel Vildosola Daniel Yafalián |
| ART DIRECTION | Gonzalo Delgado Galiana |
| COSTUMES | Adelaida Rodríguez Puig |
| MAKE UP HAIR | |
| SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE | no |
| DVD VIDEO AVAILABLE | yes |
| LINKS | www.bavaria-film-international.de, www.rizomafilms.com.ar, www.mk2.com, www.whisky-film.de |
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