The Little Girl - Evil has a name
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Little Girl - Evil has a name |
| Original title | Dictado |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Antonio Chavarrías |
| script | Antonio Chavarrías |
| production | Antonio Chavarrías |
| music |
Joan Valent Zacarías M. de la Riva |
| camera | Guillermo Granillo |
| cut | Martí Roca |
| occupation | |
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The Little Girl is a Spanish movie from 2012. The film was directed by Antonio Chavarrías , who also wrote the script and produced the film. The psychological thriller tells the story of Daniel, who recognizes the sister of an old friend in the young Julia, whom he killed in his own childhood. Dictado had its world premiere on February 11, 2012 as part of the 62nd Berlinale , where it was represented in the competition.
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The young teacher Daniel receives a visit to his school from Mario, an unstable writer with whom he spent a summer in his childhood when his father and his mother wanted to get married. The distraught man asks Daniel to speak to his daughter to explain what happened back then, but Daniel refuses. At the end of the school day, Daniel explains to his friend Laura, who is also a teacher and with whom he has an unfulfilled desire to have children, the circumstances of his connection with the writer and tells her that his younger sister Clara died that summer. When Mario comes home in the evening, he gets into the bathtub with his daughter Julia and commits suicide by cutting open his wrists.
After reading the news of Mario's death in the newspaper at a teachers' conference, Daniel and his girlfriend visit his funeral, where they also get to know his daughter Julia, who is looked after by the youth welfare office. Laura persuades him to take the girl at least temporarily. She is very fond of the little girl and develops a deep relationship with her, while Daniel stays at a distance and feels more and more reminded of Clara. She tells him that she already knew who he was before they first met, and he addresses her as Clara at a birthday party, to which she reacts. As a result, Daniel remembers how Clara and her brother Mario and their mother arrived with him and his father, how Clara received a red hairband from his deceased mother as a talisman against monsters and how Clara the two boys playing by the sea tracked and revealed that they had smoked. He remembers how he and Mario played in a cemetery and made Clara go down into a grave and how she was found dead there, whereupon her mother yelled at the two boys and called them monsters. Julia is not only physiognomically similar to Clara, she also wears her hairband and repeatedly indicates that she knows Daniel's past. In addition to the memories, they also have nightmares. So he dreams of getting into his bathroom and finding the bathtub there filled with the earth under which Clara was buried, and pulls the red hairband out of it.
Meanwhile, Laura learns that someone is seeking custody of Julia. When she tries to tell Daniel, however, she finds him in the girl's room at four in the morning after a night of partying. She confronts her boyfriend and he explains that Julia wants to hurt him. She then tries to reassure him that there are no ghosts and explains that the girl is completely normal. She suggests that the three of us go to a weekend house. During her stay there, Laura has to go back to town because an opportunity arose to obtain custody. She gets to know Julia's grandmother and learns that she sees her deceased daughter Clara in her. The grandmother asks her to protect the girl from the monsters. While she is away, Daniel finds Clara's drawing pad with Julia, on which she drew a picture for her mother every day. He burns it while the girl is locked in a shed. When Laura returns, he tries to keep her away from Julia. When she tries to free the girl, he knocks her down. He drags Julia into the forest where he wants to bury her alive after asking her forgiveness. As he shoveled earth over Julia, he remembers how he pelted Clara with earth in the grave and finally buried her under the earth, while her brother tried to keep him from doing so. Laura finds him when Julia is already buried under a thin layer of earth and saves it. She tries to explain to Daniel why there were similarities with Clara, but he doesn't want to let her go with the girl. He falls to his death in a scramble. In the last scene of the film you can see the dead body and how the night sky is reflected in his eyes.
background
Dictado was produced by the Oberon Cinematográfica production company, which Chavarrías founded himself in 1990. Filmax International took over the worldwide distribution . Antonio Chavarrías moved with his film within the genre conventions of the thriller . With the musical arrangement, the surreal dream sequences and the natural scenes in earth colors, he creates a very own threatening effect.
literature
- Berlin International Film Festival (ed.): 62nd Berlin International Film Festival . Berlin 2012, ISSN 0724-7117 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Little Girl - Evil Has a Name . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2014 (PDF; test number: 143 396 V).
- ^ Berlin International Film Festival (ed.): 62nd Berlin International Film Festival . Berlin 2012, p. 23.