Tesis
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| Directed by | Alejandro Amenábar |
| Produced by | Emiliano Otegui José Luis Cuerda |
| Written by | Alejandro Amenábar Mateo Gil |
| Starring |
Ana Torrent Fele Martínez Eduardo Noriega |
| Music by | Alejandro Amenábar |
| Cinematography | Hans Burman |
| Edited by | María Elena Sáinz de Rozas |
| Distributed by | Las Producciones del Escorpión |
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Release date
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1996 |
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Running time
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125 min, (Mexico: 118 min) |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget | €721,214 |
Tesis (Thesis) is a 1996 Spanish thriller film. It is the feature debut of director Alejandro Amenábar, and was written by Amenabar and Mateo Gil. The film was made while he was still studying at Universidad Complutense in Madrid The movie won seven 1996 Goya Awards, including the award for Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director. It stars Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez and Eduardo Noriega.
As Ángela is sitting on a subway, the train halts and passengers are told to evacuate. A man has committed suicide by jumping in front of the tracks and died. While being led out of the station, Ángela begins to move towards the tracks to see the man's remains. She is warded away at the last instant. Ángela is a university student in Madrid, writing a thesis on audiovisual violence in the family. At a thesis meeting, she asks her thesis director, Professor Figueroa, to help her find the most violent videos in the school's video library. After class, Ángela seeks out the help of a fellow student, Chema, who is known for his collection of violent and pornographic videos. As Ángela begins to watch violent films with Chema, Figueroa finds a tape in a hidden hallway of the school's audiovisual archives. The next day, Ángela finds Figueroa dead in the university's viewing room. She takes the video tape from the player and leaves for class. Ángela later learns that Figueroa died of an asthma attack, and that a younger professor, Castro, will now be directing her thesis project. Ángela goes to Chema's house to watch the film, and Chema realizes that this is a snuff film, or a film of someone being murdered. As they watch the women being tortured, killed and disemboweled, Chema realizes that the women in the film was named Vanessa, a girl who attended their university and went missing two years ago. Chema and Ángela are also able to determine which kind of camera the killer used, a Sony XT 500, based on the quality of its digital zoom, and that the film was shot in someone's garage.
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