Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino (2002)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Directors:

Isaac-Pierre Racine
Agustí Villaronga

Writers:

Isaac-Pierre Racine (writer)
Agustí Villaronga (writer)

Release Date:

8 November 2002 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Aro Tolbukhin is a hungarian inmigrant 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. |

Awards:

7 wins & 8 nominations

Cast

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
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lourdes del Valle

Also Known As:

Aro Tolbukhin (Spain) (short title)
Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer (International: English title)
Aro Tolbukhin. Dins la ment de l'assassí (Spain: Catalan title)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Spain | Mexico

Language:

Spanish | Catalan

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Spain:13 | Italy:T

Filming Locations:

Bois D'arcy, Yvelines, France

Company:

Altavista Films

Trivia:

Selected as the official Mexico entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 76th Annual Academy Awards.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: When the Nun is boarding the bus in Guatemala, you can clearly see a shot of a Mexican political party (Convergencia) which wasn't around in 1980/81 - it was created at least 10 years later.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Crimen ferpecto (2004)

Deserves to be seen.

The film blends documentary and fictionalized sequences to tell the remarkable story of a Hungarian sailor's mental deterioration. The film traces his pathology to his childhood in Budapest while detailing murders perpetrated in rural Guatemala in the 1980s. "Aro Tolbukhin" easily engages the viewer's interest . The filmmakers provide a visually arresting portrait of a serial killer that is psychologically accurate and rich in characterization. Kudos to all involved. May this film receive wide distribution.