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Airbag

Spanien Deutschland Portugal 1996/1997 Spielfilm

Airbag
Juantxo′s life is perfect: He is rich, he has a social position, a career and, in 5 days time, he is getting married to the daughter of a marquise.
But, before that, he will grant his friends one last request.

At his stag night in a well-known brothel with his two friends - Pako
and Konradin – he loses his virginity and his 30-million-Peseta
engagement ring. The search for the lost ring plunges the three friends
into the underworld of drug barons and brothel kings. Undaunted, the
trio embark on a furious journey around northern Spain from brothel to
brothel, unwittingly setting in motion a series of events that bring
the drug gangs to each other′s throats. They are let loose into a
bizarre world: from Portuguese mafia boss Souza, his black magic powers
and convoy of gun-toting kamikazes to unashamedly corrupt politicians;
from dialectic policemen to exotic whores, and from coke to airbags
that inflate with more than just air. On the way they meet the
seductive and dangerous Fatima Espirito Santo, and the outrageous and
unpredictable Pazos, whose efforts to linguistically impress are
nothing short of hilarious. As the chaos and clouds of smoke and coke
billow up behind them, Juantxo discovers hitherto untapped powers.
Pako′s highway credibility and sexual prowess are put to a severe test,
and Konradin keeps them both sane with encyclopaedic gems from his
store of useless facts. Meanwhile, many, many miles away, the church
bells ring out on a sunlit banquet

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

Credits

Director

  • Juanma Bajo Ulloa

Screenplay

  • Karra Elejalde
  • Juanma Bajo Ulloa
  • Fernando Guillén Cuervo

Director of photography

  • Gonzalo Berridi

Editing

  • Pablo Blanco

Music

  • Bingen Mendizabal

Cast

  • Pilar Bardem
    La Herme
  • Karra Elejalde
    Juantxo
  • Luis Cuenca
    Souza
  • Rosa María Sardá
    Marquesa
  • Francisco Rabal
    Villambrosa
  • Manuel Manquina
    Pazos
  • Maria de Medeiros
    Fátima do Espírito Santo
  • Fernando Guillén Cuervo
    Konradín
  • Alberto San Juan
    Pako

Production company

  • Marea Films S.A. (Madrid)
  • Asegarce Zinema S.A. (Bilbao)
  • Road Movies Dritte Produktionen GmbH (Berlin)
  • M.G.N. Filmes (Lissabon)

Producer

  • Inaki Burutxaga
  • Adrian Lipp

Alle Credits

Director

  • Juanma Bajo Ulloa

Assistant director

  • Luis Gómez Valdivieso
  • José Ramos Paino

Screenplay

  • Karra Elejalde
  • Juanma Bajo Ulloa
  • Fernando Guillén Cuervo

Story

  • Karra Elejalde

Director of photography

  • Gonzalo Berridi

Camera operator

  • Arturo Aldegunde

Assistant camera

  • Mario Montero
  • Juan de la Cueva

Set design

  • Julio Torrecilla
  • Nuria Sanjuan
  • Satur Idarreta

Make-up artist

  • Karmele Soler

Costume design

  • Bina Daigeler

Hairdresser

  • Itziar Arrieta

Editing

  • Pablo Blanco

Sound

  • Juan Borell
  • Miguel Ángel Polo
  • Gilles Ortion

Audio mixing

  • Stefan Korte

Music

  • Bingen Mendizabal

Cast

  • Pilar Bardem
    La Herme
  • Karra Elejalde
    Juantxo
  • Luis Cuenca
    Souza
  • Rosa María Sardá
    Marquesa
  • Francisco Rabal
    Villambrosa
  • Manuel Manquina
    Pazos
  • Maria de Medeiros
    Fátima do Espírito Santo
  • Fernando Guillén Cuervo
    Konradín
  • Alberto San Juan
    Pako

Production company

  • Marea Films S.A. (Madrid)
  • Asegarce Zinema S.A. (Bilbao)
  • Road Movies Dritte Produktionen GmbH (Berlin)
  • M.G.N. Filmes (Lissabon)

Producer

  • Inaki Burutxaga
  • Adrian Lipp

Co-Producer

  • Tino Navarro
  • Ulrich Felsberg

Line producer

  • Adrian Lipp

Unit production manager

  • Mariví de Villanueva

Funding

  • Eurimages (Straßburg)
  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)

Shoot

    • 10.06.1996 - 23.08.1996: Madrid und Umgebung, Santander, Navarra (Las Bárdenas)
Duration:
3477 m, 124 min
Format:
35mm, 1:2,35
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby SRD
Screening:

Uraufführung (ES): 13.06.1997, San Sebastian, Principe 2;
Aufführung (ES): 20.06.1997, Madrid;
Erstaufführung (DE): 22.01.1999, Saarbrücken, Max-Ophüls-Preis

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (ES DE PT) Airbag
  • TV-Titel (DE) Airbag - Jetzt knallt's richtig!

Versions

Original

Duration:
3477 m, 124 min
Format:
35mm, 1:2,35
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby SRD
Screening:

Uraufführung (ES): 13.06.1997, San Sebastian, Principe 2;
Aufführung (ES): 20.06.1997, Madrid;
Erstaufführung (DE): 22.01.1999, Saarbrücken, Max-Ophüls-Preis

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