Suso's tower
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Suso's tower |
| Original title | La Torre de Suso |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tom Fernández |
| script | Tom Fernández |
| production | Jaume Roures |
| music | Javier Tejedor |
| camera | Carlos Suarez |
| cut | Ángel Hernández Zoido |
| occupation | |
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Suso's Tower (Original title: La Torre de Suso ) is a Spanish comedy film . It was filmed in 2006 under the direction of Tom Fernández and first shown at the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián on September 26, 2007. The cinema release in Germany was on September 17, 2009.
action
Because his friend Suso died of an overdose, Cundo travels back from Argentina to his old Spanish homeland to attend the funeral. He is staying with his parents, whom he has not seen for years. After he and his three remaining friends Fernando, Mote and Rico organized a binge in Suso's honor, he discovered numerous sketches of a tower in Suso's house. Believing that the erection of this tower was Suso's last will, Cundo does everything in his power to grant him this wish. After initial skepticism, his friends help him. When the seven meter high wooden tower is finally erected next to Suso's house, it is torn down again by Suso's brother because he has inherited the property and does not want to have anything to do with his friends. Nevertheless, Suso (whose voice accompanies the film from the off ) is satisfied because his friends have now "seen the world from above".
production
Suso's Tower was filmed from September 4th to October 18th, 2006 at Mieres , Aller and Castrillón in the Asturias region .
synchronization
The German dubbing comes from TaunusFilm Synchron GmbH from Berlin. The dialogue book and the dialogue direction are from Beate Klöckner.
| role | actor | German voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Cundo | Javier Cámara | Olaf Reichmann |
| Fernando | Gonzalo de Castro | Marcus Off |
| Pablo | José Luis Alcobendas | Bernd Vollbrecht |
| Tino | Emilio Gutiérrez Caba | Axel Lutter |
reception
“What at first sight sounds like a buddy comedy actually turns out to be a melancholy, understated parable about the failure of human relationships. [...] All the more surprising that Fernandez lets his story suddenly lead to a happy ending. Peace, joy, pregnancy, the middle-class family as the goal of all dreams. In the end, the tamed machos sit around the table with their families. And one wonders why Fernández is torpedoing the cheerful, anarchic basic trait of his film with this bourgeois message. "
“It would be easy to describe“ Suso's Tower ”as banal, unoriginal and stale. Because at first glance, little happens in the 100 minutes of the film. Neither misunderstandings nor disputes or drinking are particularly emphasized. There are hardly any dramatic moments, the conflicts are subliminally portrayed and resolved, the whole film has a very casual, relaxed aura. That is not necessarily earth-shattering, stylistically also rather conventionally staged, but still true. Even if the numerous small conflicts resolve a little too amicably in the end, “Suso's Tower” remains a thoroughly sympathetic little film, full of precisely drawn figures and pleasantly inconspicuous humor. "
Awards
- Nominations at the Goya of 2008 :
- "Best Young Actor" - Gonzalo de Castro
- "Best Young Director" - Tom Fernández
Web links
- Susos tower in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Suso's Tower in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Suso's tower . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 761 K).
- ↑ Suso's tower. Filmstarts.de , accessed on November 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Suso's Tower - Filming & Production. IMDb , accessed November 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Entry for Suso's tower. German synchronous index , accessed on November 10, 2019 .
- ^ Raimund Gerz: Critique of Suso's Tower. epd Film , September 1, 2009, accessed November 10, 2019 .
- ^ Michael Meyns: Susos Turm - film review. Programmkino.de , accessed on November 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Nominations at Goya 2008 ( Memento from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )