DOG FLESH
synopsis
In Chile, people look to the future. They work, dream of success, lose themselves in shopping and saccharine soaps. They prefer not to think of the dictatorship of Pinochet, who drowned the country in fear from 1973 to 1990. Except, that is, for types like Alejandro. This shabby fifty-something worked in one of Pinochet’s torture prisons. Now he lives on the fringes of society, unable to reinvent himself. When one of his former colleagues commits suicide, this emotionally handicapped macho completely loses it. His wife and daughter leave him. His trusty yet noisy dog has to take the full force of his temper tantrums.
international title: | Dog Flesh |
original title: | Carne de perro |
country: | Chile, France, Germany |
sales agent: | FiGa Films/Los Angeles |
year: | 2012 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Fernando Guzzoni |
film run: | 81' |
release date: | ES 12/07/2013, DE 03/03/2014 |
screenplay: | Fernando Guzzoni |
cast: | Alejandro Goic, Amparo Noguera, María Gracia Omegna, Alfredo Castro, Sergio Hernández, Daniel Alcaíno |
cinematography by: | Bárbara Álvarez |
film editing: | Javier Estévez |
art director: | Bernardita Baeza |
producer: | Adrián Solar, Jacques Bidou, Gunter Hanfgarn |
production: | JBA Production, Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion, Ceneca Producciones/Chile |
backing: | Fondo de fomento Audiovisual/Chile, Fond Sud Cinéma, Groupama Gan Foundation, Cinéfondation - Cannes Film Festival/France, World cinema Fund/Germany |
distributor: | Wanda Visión, Déjà vu |