Tras el cristal

A Nazi doctor who had a fetish for young boys feels guilt after torturing and murdering his latest victim, and throws himself off a roof. Some years later, the doctor, confined to an iron lung, accepts as his nurse a boy who secretly witnessed that killing.
A scandalous film at the time of making: an old Nazi and his young carer in Spain. A truly dark work about dark subject matters, the concealment and unrepentant nature of the post-fascist Spanish world when it had not yet begun to grapple analytically and politically with those grim times. In 2000 Vilaronga won the Manfred Salzgeber Prize with El Mar.

details

  • Runtime

    110 min
  • Country

    Spain
  • Year of Presentation

    2016
  • Year of Production

    1987
  • Director

    Agustí Villaronga
  • Cast

    Günter Meisner, David Sust, Marisa Paredes
  • Production Company

    T.E.M. Productores S.A.
  • Berlinale Section

  • Berlinale Category

    Feature Film

Biography Agustí Villaronga

Born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in 1953, his debut film TRAS EL CRISTAL (In a Glass Cage) screened at the Berlinale in 1986. He won the Goya Award for Best Director with PA NEGRE (Black Bread) in 2011.

Filmography Agustí Villaronga

1989 El niño de la luna | 1997 99.9 | 2010 Pa negre