Agnosia
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Agnosia |
| Original title | Agnosia |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish , German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eugenio Mira |
| script | Antonio Trashorras |
| production |
MA Faura Isaac Torrás |
| music | Eugenio Mira |
| camera | Unax Mendía |
| cut | Jose Luis Romeu |
| occupation | |
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Agnosia (alternative title: Agnosia - The Dark Secret ) is a Spanish thriller by Eugenio Mira from 2010.
action
In 1892, the Spanish entrepreneur Artur Prats developed a groundbreaking lens for rifle scopes for firearms. His daughter Joana fell ill with agnosia in childhood . Due to this illness, the brain becomes overstimulated, so that Joana cannot visually recognize and differentiate between different things and people, despite fully functional sensory organs and mental performance.
In 1899, the now attractive young woman Joana lived with her father and several domestic workers in their property in Barcelona. Arthur's closest and loyal colleague Carles Lardín was promised Joana as his wife. Among the house servants is Vicent, who looks very similar to Carles. The family doctor Dr. Meissner sees a breakthrough in the diagnosis of Joana's disease and recommends locking her for three days in a dark room, isolated from the outside world, in order to reduce the external stimulus effects on her to a minimum. This is supposed to cause your brain to regenerate.
Meanwhile, Artur's former business partner, the arms manufacturer Lucille Prevert, wants to take over his company and thus get her hands on the special lens. Artur categorically refuses and mentions that he destroyed all plans for the lens and that its secret is well guarded. In fact, however, he has hidden the prototype well.
Vicent is fired after an argument among the domestic workers. Artur is also killed when the company is broken into. It turns out that Lucille and Dr. Meissner plan a perfidious project, whereby Vicent is also forced to complicity. Artur leaves Joana the company that Carles will run in the future. With the company on the verge of bankruptcy, Carles agrees with Dr. Meissner, hoping to get the formula for the lens from Joana. Meanwhile, Joana longs for real love and affection, which Carles does not give her.
Joana is now locked in a hermetically sealed room for three days. Lucille and Dr. Meissner use the confusion with a simulated emergency to replace the anesthetized Joana with a normal housekeeper and instead drag her to a structurally identical room far away from the house. There Vicent is supposed to elicit the secret through regular visits as Carles Joana. Joana is confused, but she doesn't realize that it's not Carles. Vicent falls in love with her and gives her the longed-for tenderness. They also sleep together. Overjoyed at Carles' alleged change of heart, she shares the formula to save the company.
After Joana is brought back to her house shortly before the end of the treatment, she is of course not cured after it has ended, but as if changed and completely in love with Carles. When she seduces him, however, she realizes that she hadn't slept with Carles the night before. Meanwhile, Vicent turns himself in to the police, but nobody believes him and all possible evidence has been destroyed. Full of hatred for Vicent, Carles loses Joana more and more. He also has to sell the company to Lucille. After attending Christmas mass, Joana meets Vicent again and immediately recognizes her lover. But Vicent is shot by one of Lucille's accomplices and Joana falls down the stairs in the commotion. Seriously injured, she rejects the helping Carles. He then helps Vicent to his feet, who then bends down to Joana and speaks to her, while Carles actually holds her hand. When Vicent kisses Joana, she dies.
criticism
"Perfectly designed thriller with mystery elements, which keeps the development in suspense for a long time and cleverly arranges the familiar clichés of the genre."
“Psychological thrillers, family drama, Gothic horror, industrial espionage and love stories combine to form a harmonious unit in this elegantly staged and nicely equipped costume film from Spain, set against the backdrop of the early 20th century. Similar to the protagonist, the viewer is first led on all sorts of wrong tracks, before the picture is rounded in half-time 2 and the mood turns from curiosity to tension. Well played and originally conceived, a good thing for genre fans and drama watchers alike. "
Web links
- Agnosia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Agnosia in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ release document for Agnosia . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2011 (PDF; test number: 127 227 V).
- ↑ Agnosia. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Agnosia ( Memento from January 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) video.de