No One Heard the Scream

Nadie oyó gritar

Spain

1973

88 Min

Color

1.75:1

Spanish

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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SCR Antonio Fos, Eloy de la Iglesia, Gabriel Moreno Burgos

CAST Carmen Sevilla, Vicente Parra, María Asquerino, Antonio Casas, Tony Isbert, Goyo Lebrero, Felipe Solano, Ramón Lillo, Antonio del Real

MUSIC Fernando García Morcillo

Synopsis

A woman witnesses a man hurling his wife’s body down an elevator shaft. She helps him get rid of the corpse and spends the night with him. In the morning he is dead-murdered by his former lover- and the two women remove the corpse. –BFI

Director

Eloy de la Iglesia

Born in the Basque town of Zaráuz on 1.1.1944. He studied film at the IDHEC in Paris and began making films in the mid-sixties; his films were considered provocative in Spain under Franco. Iglesia makes use of popular genres such as the thriller and the horror film in order to convey his social criticism; he was also one of the first to address homosexuality in his films. In 1996, San Sebastián film festival featured an extensive retrospective of his work. –Berlinale