The Body

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Movie
German title The Body
Original title El cuerpo
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2012
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Oriol Paulo
occupation

The Body is a Spanish thriller from 2012 . It is Oriol Paulo's directorial debut , with which he was nominated for the 2013 Spanish Goya film award for best young director.

action

The corpse of the successful businesswoman Mayka Villaverde Freire disappears from forensic medicine . Suspect is her younger husband Alex Ullo Marcos, who as the managing director and chemist of one of their companies has access to poison. However, he believes that his wife staged her death in order to now, as revenge for his affair with the student Carla, attach the murder of her.

In the end, it turns out that the investigating inspector Jaime Peña and his daughter were behind the disappearance of the body. The daughter pretends to be a student Carla and starts an affair with Alex. She influences him to kill his wife with the help of a poison that leads to death eight hours after ingestion. Carla, in turn, poisons Alex in the same way. In the last minutes before his death, eight hours later, the inspector clears up his suspect Alex and reveals the motive: 12 years earlier, Alex and Mayka rammed a vehicle in which the inspector, his wife and his then little daughter were sitting. Instead of asking for help, they committed hit and miss. The woman died as a result of her injuries. With the help of an elaborate and ingenious plan, the inspector and his daughter took revenge for the death of their wife and mother by murdering the accident driver Alex and - indirectly - his co-driver Mayka.

reception

In the Internet Movie Database in 2017, the film received a total of 7.5 out of 10 stars with 24,753 voters. At Rotten Tomatoes an average rating of 77 percent was achieved.

background

The film was shown at the Fantasy Filmfest 2013 , and the promoter promised to give a beer to every viewer who guessed the end of the film. None of the audience could foresee the end of the film. The film has been available on DVD and Blu-ray Disc since 2014 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Body . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2014 (PDF; test number: 144 678 V).
  2. ↑ El cuerpo (The body) ( English ) Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved November 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ 'The Body' on filmstarts.de ( German ) Retrieved on November 15, 2016.