Savages ( Salvajes )

Savages (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Salvajes
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Goya Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
99 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Documentary
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Carlos Molinero

Written By:
José Luis Alonso de Santos (story)
Jorge Juan Martínez

Actors:
Marisa Paredes ..... Berta
Imanol Arias ..... Eduardo
Manuel Morón ..... Morís
Roger Casamajor ..... Guillermo
María Isasi ..... Lucía (as Maria Isasi)
Alberto Ferreiro ..... Raúl
Emilio Buale ..... Omar
Mario Pardo ..... Turuta
Alicia Sánchez ..... Amparo
Carmen Balagué ..... Sonsoles
Chloé Buale ..... Fatoma
Juan Sanz ..... Santi
Toni Gómez ..... Lobo
Darío Paso ..... Fino
José Luis Alcobendas ..... Fausto

Synopsis:

Spanish drama about anti-immigrant racism and family problems. Berta is a single nurse raising her deceased sister's three teenage children in a Spanish port city. The two boys are neo-Nazis with a flaming hatred for African immigrants, and the girl has a boyfriend who runs an underground business smuggling illegal aliens from Africa. Into this time bomb comes a cop, Eduardo, who is investigating the vicious assault of a black man. He and Berta fall for each other and make tigerish love in scenes that are much hotter than you might expect from middle-aged actors.

One dysfunctional family's problems hold up a mirror to larger issues of racism and misplaced patriotism in this Spanish drama. Berta (Marisa Paredes) is a nurse who is edging into middle age and looking for a husband; she also looks after the three teenage children of her recently deceased sister. Eduardo (Imanol Arias) is a hard-drinking police investigator who encounters Berta during a trip to the hospital; they hit it off and begin dating. But Berta's new romance could pose a problem for her niece, Lucia (Maria Isasi), whose boyfriend, Fausto (Jose Luis Alcobendas), has a lucrative illegal business smuggling illegal aliens from North Africa into Spain. Adding to tensions around the house, Lucia's brothers, Raul (Alberto Ferreiro) and Guillermo (Roger Casamajor), are members of an extreme right-wing group who have been implicated in the murder of an illegal immigrant from Senegal (Emilio Buale). Berta tries to ignore the ugly truth about the youngsters in her care, but when Eduardo is assigned to investigate the case of the murdered immigrant, she is forced to face the reality of her family's actions. Salvajes was the first feature film from director Carlos Molinero.

In contemporary Valencia, where racism, xenophobia and disenchantment have taken hold of numerous local youths, middle-aged nurse Berta works to support her orphaned neice and nephews. Looking for romance, Berta begins dating detective Eduardo. The relationship is going well, but when Eduardo begins investigating the beating of a Sengalese immigrant, the evidence seems to point to Berta's neo-Nazi nephews, Guillermo and Raul. Refusing at first to accept the truth, Berta must eventually confront her nephews.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 08 March, 2007.

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