Marshland (film)
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| La Isla Mínima | |
| Directed by | Alberto Rodríguez |
| Written by | Alberto Rodríguez Rafael Cobos |
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Raúl Arévalo Javier Gutiérrez Nerea Barros Antonio de la Torre |
| Music by | Julio de la Rosa |
| Cinematography | Alex Catalán |
| Edited by | José M. G. Moyano |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures Intl. |
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105 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget | €4 million |
| Box office | $464,037 |
Marshland (Spanish: La isla mínima, "The Tiny Island") is a 2014 Spanish thriller film directed by Alberto Rodríguez. It premiered in Spain on September 26, 2014. It won ten Goya Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor (Javier Gutiérrez).
In 1980, Madrid homicide detectives Pedro Suarez and Juan Robles are sent to a forgotten town on the Guadalquivir Marshes to investigate the disappearance of two teenage sisters during the town's festivities. Pedro, openly critical of Spain's past during Franco's reign, faces problems with authority figures, while Juan cares not, though he has a troubled past of his own.
The detectives meet with the girls' (Carmen and Estrella) father, Antonio, a local river boat driver. Although Antonio and his wife Rocío say their daughters were average girls, the duo learn from their friends that they had a deep urge to leave the town. Rocío also gives the detectives a burnt film reel she's found, depicting the girls naked and in bed with a man whose face is obscured by a flash. Soon enough as well, both Carmen and Estrella are found dumped in the local marsh, having been raped and tortured to death.
Troubled and with no leads, the two attempt to spy on Quini, the handsome and suave former boyfriend of Carmen. Quini, now dating another town girl Marina, is able to sneak up on the detectives after they've followed him and attempts to threaten them with a knife. After disarming and sending him away, the two agree that Quini must be a part of whatever is occurring. The problem is confirmed to be even bigger after a drunk man named Castro confronts the detectives with a similar case; his girlfriend, Beatriz, was close to Quini and the sisters, and was found dismembered with her suitcase along the marshes.
Pedro and Juan continue to investigate and come upon unraveled secrets. It is revealed that the river boats and marshes are used to smuggle and transport heroin, and that Antonio had stolen a kilo and sold it, putting him in trouble with the locals. However, the locals confront the detectives, revealing the information in whole, and claiming that they had nothing to do with the sisters' deaths. One of the men do aid the investigation though by describing a white Dyane 6 that lurked around a church where one of the girls' purse was found. After digging through more victim's items, the two see a pattern of out-of-town job brochures for women, eventually linking Quini to a man named Sebastian. Digging through Sebastian's past, they find a warrant out for him for the possible sexual molestation of a child, solidifying his chance of being the main culprit. Juan and Pedro deduce that Quini and Sebastian were luring the young women of the town, who were aching to leave and find their own independence through work, by passing these brochures around and then entrapping them into sexual slavery within a local hunting lodge.
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