Lucia, Lucia
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| Directed by | Antonio Serrano |
| Produced by | Matthias Ehrenberg Andrés Vicente Gómez Carlos Payán |
| Written by | Antonio Serrano |
| Starring |
Cecilia Roth Kuno Becker Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa Javier Díaz Dueñas Margarita Isabel Max Kerlow Mario Iván Martínez José Elías Moreno Héctor Ortega Enrique Singer |
| Music by | Nacho Mastretta |
| Cinematography | Xavier Pérez Grobet |
| Edited by | Jorge García |
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LolaFilms
Conaculta Fondo Ibermedia |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time
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110 minutes |
| Country | Mexico Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget |
€3.3 million MXN$30 million USD$2.75 million |
| Box office | $269,586 |
Lucía, Lucía, also known as La hija del caníbal, is a 2003 Mexican-Spanish film and the second by Antonio Serrano. The story is based on Spanish journalist Rosa Montero's novel of the same name (1997). The film stars Argentine actress Cecilia Roth, Mexican actor Kuno Becker, and Spanish actor Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa. The cinematographer is Xavier Pérez Grobet.
Lucía, a children's book writer, is travelling to Brazil with her husband on vacation, when her husband disappears after going to the airport bathroom. She later learns that he was kidnapped by a group called the People Workers Party that wants 20 million pesos from her. Her husband frantically tells her to find the money in his aunt's safety deposit box. With the help of her neighbours, a Spanish Civil War veteran, and a young musician, Lucía sets out to find his kidnappers. She eventually discovers the truth about his disappearance after learning from the police that her husband is accused of being part of an elaborate embezzlement scam from within the Treasury Department of the government and may have possibly faked his kidnapping.
The film was shot over a period of eight weeks in and around Mexico City, as well as at the Puebla airport and the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro. In the United States the film was released under the name Lucía, Lucía, since the producers thought the name La hija del caníbal (literally, "The cannibal's daughter") would lead audiences to believe the story was about a cannibal.
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