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A young man who arrives at a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle for his life.
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Film Cast:
- Friend: David Oakes
- Gruner: Ray Stevenson
- Aneris: Aura Garrido
- Senegalese: Winslow Iwaki
- Captain Axel: John Benfield
- Naval Officer: Ben Temple
- New Weather Official: Iván González
- Portuguese: Alejandro Rod
- Burley Russian: Julien Blaschke
- Scotsman: Damián Montesdeoca
- Ship Crew Member #1: Israel Bodero
- Ship Crew Member #2: Roberto Rincón
Film Crew:
- Director: Xavier Gens
- Book: Albert Sánchez Piñol
- Screenplay: Jesús Olmo
- Screenplay: Eron Sheean
- Director of Photography: Daniel Aranyó
- Casting: Diego Betancor
- In Memory Of: Gil Parrondo
- Art Direction: Óscar Sempere
- Producer: Denise O’Dell
- Costume Design: Tatiana Hernández
- Set Decoration: Mani Martínez
- Casting: Jeremy Zimmermann
- Music: Víctor Reyes
- Producer: Mark Albela
- Electrician: Sergio Mantecón
- Dialogue Editor: Iñaki Sánchez-Elvira
- Sound Designer: Gabriel Gutiérrez
- Camera Operator: David Domínguez
- Camera Operator: Lionel Garrote
- Special Effects Supervisor: Pau Costa
- Assistant Costume Designer: Mónica G. Lancha
- Continuity: Samantha Timmerman
- Animation: Ferran Casas
- Visual Effects Producer: Ainara Castro
- First Assistant Camera: Álvaro García
- First Assistant Camera: Guillem Huertas
- Boom Operator: Jaime Fernández-Cid Buscató
- Sound Effects Editor: Alfredo Díaz
- Publicist: Irene Manrique Matin
- Key Hair Stylist: Carmen Veinat
- Lighting Technician: Pablo Rubio
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Laura Pedro
- Sound Effects Editor: Mayte Cabrera
- Assistant Editor: Queralt González
- Property Master: Héctor Gil
- Animation: Arturo Paiva Mediavilla
- Sound Designer: Oscar Victoria
- Casting Assistant: Eugenia Fernández-Pello
- First Assistant Editor: Pau Itarte
- Visual Effects Producer: Carolina Pinillos Visscher
- Makeup Designer: Miguel Sesé
- Electrician: Luis del Prado
- Casting Associate: Irene Ilias
- Gaffer: Joaquín ‘Kino’ Sánchez
- Foley: Digba Kurpjel
- Location Manager: Félix Rosell
- Creature Design: Arturo Balseiro
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Félix Bergés
- Visual Effects Supervisor: David Ramos
- Dolby Consultant: Ricardo Viñas
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Marco Augusto Comba
- Associate Producer: Jordi Roca Agut
- Production Manager: Alberto Poveda Rey
- First Assistant Director: Yann Cuinet
- Post Production Coordinator: Marta Morales Vicario
- Production Coordinator: Uxue Sáenz
- Storyboard Artist: Kris Matt
- Production Accountant: Enric Llopis
- Stunt Double: Ignacio Herráez
- Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Noelia Peso
- Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Almudena Pérez
- Stunt Double: Alejandro López Estacio
- Stunts: Abián Padrón
- Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Cassandra Noboa Sicre
- Assistant Director: Benjamin Gens
- Concept Artist: Jonathan Delerue
- Associate Producer: Gregoire Gensollen
- Stunts: Ricardo Rocca
- Colorist: Diana Cuyas
- Assistant Location Manager: César Pardiñas
- Unit Production Manager: Salvador Yagüe
- Second Assistant Director: Jairo Murray
- Painter: José María Ortega
- Still Photographer: José Haro
- Key Grip: Jonathan Maurice Lee
- Co-Producer: Lucette Legot
- Editor: Guillermo de la Cal
- Stunt Coordinator: Cuco Usín
- Second Assistant “C” Camera: Clara Pozas
- Third Assistant Director: Jesus Espin
- Second Assistant Camera: Ana Sánchez Tejera
- Construction Manager: José Luis Moya
- Assistant Sound Editor: Kevin Hortigüela
- Stunts: Eduardo Moratilla
- Graphic Designer: Edu Glez
- Stunt Double: Cristina Aciara Troncoso
- Casting Coordinator: Isabel Garrido Morante
- Special Effects Makeup Artist: Cesar Alonso
- Special Effects Makeup Artist: Victor Alcalá
- Special Effects Makeup Artist: Nelly Guimaras
- Prosthetics Sculptor: Sebastian Lochmann
- Prosthetics Sculptor: Göran Lundström
- Construction Coordinator: Martín Sánchez Fernández
- Creative Director: Sergio González Kuhn
- Prop Maker: Pablo Seoane
- Prop Maker: Valentín Isakov
- Prop Maker: Pedro Valero
- Prop Maker: Verónica Gutiérrez Gómez
- Props: Èlia Basullas
- Props: Fransesc Fusté Saus
- Set Dresser: Pablo Trasancos
- Data Wrangler: Ignacio Millet
- Digital Imaging Technician: Carlos Caba
- Digital Imaging Technician: José Luis Martínez Díaz
- Generator Operator: Roberto Campos
- Generator Operator: Miguel Campos
- Grip: Alek Orabona
- Second Assistant Camera: Javier Lacasa
- Senior Animator: David Llopis
- Animation: Lorena Díaz Arrondo
- Compositing Supervisor: Guillermo Orbe
- Matte Painter: Pablo Domínguez
- Pipeline Technical Director: Juan Moreno
- Rotoscoping Artist: Diego Bajo
- VFX Artist: Alberto Costa
- VFX Artist: Yusef El Khadir
- VFX Artist: Gastón Emery
- VFX Artist: Patricia Escribano Bourgoin
- VFX Artist: Pablo Hernández-Meléndez
- VFX Artist: Ismael Nieto
- VFX Artist: Jorge Trueba
- Visual Effects Technical Director: Rubén Sanz
- Visual Effects: Javier Mansilla
- Visual Effects: Antonio Miravalls
- Visual Effects: Patricia Sanz
- Foley Artist: Tapio Liukkonen
Movie Reviews:
- CinemaSerf: David Oakes is one of those actors regularly seen in lengthy historical television adaptations, but rarely making any decent appearances on the bg screen. In this clever and stylish adaptation of Piñol’s novel, he plays a young man (with no name, known only as “Friend”) deposited on a remote island as a weather monitor. He is teamed up with the rather eccentric “Gruner” (Ray Stevenson) and soon their rather testy relationship is being regularly challenged by their need to defend their lighthouse home each night from an army of curiously aggressive marine mammals. The mystery deepens when we discover that “Gruner” has one of them as a part time lover that he treats pretty appallingly. As the daily carnage continues unabated, “Friend” tries to find out why these attacks happen and to try and find some sort of solution. It’s quite an odd concept; the story lacks structure in any conventional sense. It isn’t just that they don’t know why the creatures are attacking, we don’t either. Their bewilderment is our’s too; and coupled with the remoteness and starkness of the surroundings it actually all builds eerily and quite compellingly to a rather decent conclusion. Jesús Olmo has adapted the novel sparingly and Xavier Gens allows much of the, at times brutal and violent, imagery do the work. Certainly worth watching.