Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer ( Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino )

Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Goya Awards
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
94 min + 39 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Commentary
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
Mexico ( Latin America, Mexico )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Isaac-Pierre Racine
Agustí Villaronga

Written By:
Isaac-Pierre Racine
Agustí Villaronga

Actors:
Daniel Giménez Cacho ..... Adult Aro
Carmen Beato ..... Sister Carmen
Zóltán Józan ..... Teenage Aro
Mariona Castillo ..... Teenage Selma
Aram González ..... Young Aro
Eva Fortea ..... Young Selma
Jesús Ramos ..... Father
Pepa Charro ..... Dada
Lourdes del Valle

Synopsis:

A Spanish/Mexican co-production, Aro Tolbukhin En La Mente Del Asesino (In the Mind of a Killer) is a semi-documentary about the life of serial killer Aro Tolbukhin. Interviews and reenactments tell the story of a Hungarian man who was sentenced to death before a firing squad in Guatemala. He grew up in Budapest with his twin sister Stella and fled to join the merchant marines during the Russian invasion of 1956. After he was arrested for burning seven people alive in 1981, he confessed to nearly 20 other murders during the Guatemala Civil War. Commentary is provided by Carmen Beato, a former nun who lived with Tolbukhin in Alta Verapaz.

Refined game of truth and fiction in the virtuosic unravelling of a mysterious serial killer's life story. Every cinematic stylistic is upended and yet the film remains consistent. Villaronga collaborated with two young co-directors. Aro Tolbukhin, one of the most notorious serial killers of the 20th century, was reportedly born in Hungary and is soon to face a firing squad in Guatemala. Shortly before the execution, he grants an interview to two journalists, who discover that some facts don't add up. Aro Tolbukhin - In the Mind of a Killer is a bewitching essay in meta-cinema and deconstruction, in which all documentary footage is fake while the story, if not untrue, is certainly free of any factual basis - enter the grey zone. Fittingly, the different temperaments, textures and temperatures of small gauge formats, video, digital and the celestial 35mm fuse into an ambiguously sensual whole. After every cinelinguistic trope is turned inside out and upside down, Aro Tolbukhin - In the Mind of a Killer finally reveals itself: as one long and heady death-trip, one man's delirium about himself.

Aro Tolbukhin is a Hungarian immigrant that sets fire to seven people in an infirmary in a Mission in Guatemala, the movie traces back to see what made him do it, from his arrival in Guatemala to his childhood in Hungary.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 30 March, 2006.

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