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Obaba

Spanien Deutschland 2004/2005 Spielfilm

Young Lurdes takes on a trip to the Pyrenean Obaba territories, all along the ‘87 curves′, to the place full of riddles and mysteries. With her video camera she sets out to capture Obaba′s reality and its people, but she will find much more, maybe her inner self and meaning. In Merche, Ismael, Tomás or Miguel she finds friends but she sees also that they seem trapped in a past they cannot escape. Gradually, she learns about them diving into their childhood and brings about the common threads that link them together. But as Lurdes tries to solve the puzzle, there is always something missing, something that escapes that neither she nor her video camera can hold or explain, like the mysterious behavior of the lizards that live there...

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

Credits

Director

  • Montxo Armendáriz

Screenplay

  • Montxo Armendáriz

Director of photography

  • Javier Aguirresarobe

Editing

  • Rosario Sáinz de Rozas

Music

  • Xavier Capellas

Cast

  • Bárbara Lennie
    Lourdes
  • Pilar López de Ayala
    Lehrerin
  • Eduard Fernández
    Lucas
  • Héctor Colomé
    Ismael
  • Peter Lohmeyer
    Ingenieur
  • Juan Diego Botto
    Miguel
  • Mercedes Sampietro
    Miguels Mutter
  • Pepa López
    Merche
  • Txema Blasco
    Tomás
  • Lluís Homar
    Esteban

Production company

  • Oria Films S.L (ES)

Producer

  • Puy Oria

Alle Credits

Director

  • Montxo Armendáriz

Dialogue editor

  • Mina Kindl

Screenplay

  • Montxo Armendáriz

German dialogue

  • Mina Kindl

based on

  • Bernardo Atxaga (Geschichten aus "Obabakoak oder Das Gänsespiel")

Director of photography

  • Javier Aguirresarobe

Set design

  • Julio Esteban
  • Julio Torrecilla

Editing

  • Rosario Sáinz de Rozas

Sound

  • Carlos Bonmati

Music

  • Xavier Capellas

Cast

  • Bárbara Lennie
    Lourdes
  • Pilar López de Ayala
    Lehrerin
  • Eduard Fernández
    Lucas
  • Héctor Colomé
    Ismael
  • Peter Lohmeyer
    Ingenieur
  • Juan Diego Botto
    Miguel
  • Mercedes Sampietro
    Miguels Mutter
  • Pepa López
    Merche
  • Txema Blasco
    Tomás
  • Lluís Homar
    Esteban
  • Iñake Irastorza
    Begoña
  • Juan Sanz
    Junge

Production company

  • Oria Films S.L (ES)

in co-production with

  • Pandora Film Produktion GmbH (Köln)
  • neue impuls film (Hamburg)

in association with

  • Televisión Española S.A. (TVE) (Madrid)
  • Canal + Española (Madrid)

Producer

  • Puy Oria

Co-Producer

  • Montxo Armendáriz
  • Karl Baumgartner
  • Michael Eckelt

Original distributor

  • neue impuls film (Hamburg)
  • Zorro Filmverleih GmbH (München-Geiselgasteig) (Vertrieb)

Funding

  • FilmFörderung Hamburg GmbH (Hamburg)
  • Eurimages (Straßburg)
  • Media Programm der EU (Brüssel)

Shoot

    • 13.09.2004 - 20.11.2004: Spanien, Hamburg
Duration:
112 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby Digital
Screening:

Uraufführung (CA): 09.09.2005, Toronto, IFF;
Aufführung (DE): 27.09.2005, Hamburg, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 21.06.2007

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (ES DE) Obaba

Versions

Original

Duration:
112 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby Digital
Screening:

Uraufführung (CA): 09.09.2005, Toronto, IFF;
Aufführung (DE): 27.09.2005, Hamburg, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 21.06.2007

Awards

“El Mundo” 2006
  • Preis des baskischen Kinos für das beste Drehbuch
  • Preis des baskischen Kinos für die beste Regie
  • Preis des baskischen Kinos als bester Film des Jahres
2006
  • Terenci Moix Preis
Association of Critics (ACE), New York 2006
  • Pilar López, beste Nebendarstellerin des Jahres
  • Bester Film des Jahres
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