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Whisky (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Goya Awards
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
96 min + 15 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Argentina ( Latin America, Mexico )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )
Uruguay ( Latin America, Mexico )

Directed By:
Juan Pablo Rebella
Pablo Stoll

Written By:
Gonzalo Delgado
Juan Pablo Rebella

Actors:
Jorge Bolani ..... Herman Koller
Daniel Hendler ..... Martín
Ana Katz ..... Graciela
Mirella Pascual ..... Marta Acuña
Andrés Pazos ..... Jacobo Koller
Alfonso Tort ..... Botones

Synopsis:

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship. The owner of a sock factory in Montevideo, and Marta, his employee, realize that their estranged relationship needs to change when Jacobo's long-lost brother prompting them to pose as a married couple.

Directors Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll co-helm the contemporary black comedy Whisky, set in Montevideo, Uruguay. An exercise in straight-faced humor laced with absurdly funny -- yet instantly recognizable -- characters and situations, Whisky travels into the world of Jacobo (Andres Pazos), the owner and proprietor of a sock factory. Trapped in a prison of day-to-day loneliness, Jacobo finds his world turned onto its ear when his freewheeling, toothy-grinned (and infinitely more successful) brother Herman (Jorge Bolani) comes for a visit. Determined to cloak the extent of his misery, Jacobo recruits his assistant at the sock factory, Marta (Mirella Pascual), to pretend to be his wife. Screened in the United States by the Global Film Initiative, as part of its Global Lens Film Series, Whisky earned rave reviews from the BBC, The New York Times, Variety, and many other esteemed publications.

From Uruguay comes Whisky. The title refers to the word that people say there, like our cheese, to generate a smile when one is being photographed. The film is about Jewish brothers with an emotional distance between them, each with his own factory (one in Brazil, one in Uruguay), one considerably more successful than the other. The Brazil-based brother visits his brother in Uruguay for the dedication of their mother's headstone, for which occasion the latter has his secretary/manager pose as his wife in order to keep his brother's pity and smug superiority at bay.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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