La isla minima - land of murderers

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Movie
German title La isla minima - land of murderers
Original title La isla minima
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2014
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Alberto Rodríguez
script Alberto Rodríguez,
Rafael Cobos
production Paco Almazo ,
Iván Benjumea-Rey ,
Manuela Ocón
music Julio de la Rosa
camera Álex Catalán
cut José MG Moyano
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La isla mínima - Mörderland (original title: La isla mínima , English-language title: Marshland ) is a Spanish feature film by the director Alberto Rodríguez Librero from 2014 . The premiere was on September 26, 2014. The cinema release in Germany took place on August 4, 2016.

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In the summer of 1980, a serial killer was up to mischief in the marshland on the lower Guadalquivir , in southern Spain: two 16- and 17-year-old sisters (Carmen and Estrella) were brutally raped and murdered. Detective officers Pedro and Juan, sent from Madrid, are investigating this case together, but in the small Andalusian town, where the local police don't just follow the law, they encounter an iron silence. The dark decades of the Franco dictatorship shaped the people. You don't talk to strangers and certainly not to the authorities. In the course of their investigations, the two detectives discover that the sisters killed are not the only victims.

The collaboration between Pedro and Juan is soon put to the test, because the two men follow different ideologies. Juan, who likes to drink, goes to bed late and gets violent when interrogating suspects, is caught up with in the course of the investigation by his past when he was a secret police officer during the Franco dictatorship, which puts additional strain on his personal relationship with his colleague.

Only their calling as criminal investigators drives Pedro and Juan to overcome their differences and to solve the case together.

Awards

The film won more than 30 film and festival awards in 2014/15 and was nominated for the same number of awards, including the following:

  • Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián 2014: Awards to Javier Gutiérrez (Best Actor), Jury Prize (Best Cinematography - Alex Catalán), Feroz Zinemaldia Prize
  • Awards of the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos 2015: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Javier Gutiérrez), Young Actress (Nerea Barros), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Film Music, two other nominations
  • Goya 2015: Best Film, Best Director, Leading Actor (Javier Gutiérrez), Best Original Screenplay, Costumes, Editing, Film Music, Production Design, six other nominations
  • Premio Sant Jordi 2015: Award to Javier Gutiérrez and Raúl Arévalo (Best Spanish Actor)
  • Premios Unión de Actores y Actrices 2015: Awards to Javier Gutiérrez (Best Leading Actor), Manolo Solo (Best Supporting Actor), Mercedes León (Best Supporting Actress), two other nominations

Remake

A German remake of La isla mínima came from director, screenwriter and cameraman Christian Alvart , which was released in cinemas in January 2020 under the title Free Land . The plot of the remake stayed very close to the original, but was moved to East Germany after the fall of the Wall. The character Pedro became a policeman named Patrick Stein ( Trystan Pütter ) who had been transferred from Hamburg . his partner Juan became Markus Bach ( Felix Kramer ), who tortured and murdered as a Stasi officer in Bautzen during the GDR era.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for La isla mínima - land of murder . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Alberto Rodríguez: Marshland. September 26, 2014, accessed July 15, 2016 .