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Obaba

Germany, Spain

2005

107 Min
Color
1.85:1
Spanish, German
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DIR Montxo Armendáriz

EXEC Puy Oria

PROD Montxo Armendáriz, Karl Baumgartner, Michael Eckelt, Puy Oria

SCR Montxo Armendáriz, Bernardo Atxaga

DP Javier Aguirresarobe

CAST Bárbara Lennie, Pilar López de Ayala, Juan Diego Botto, Eduard Fernández, Héctor Colomé, Peter Lohmeyer, Pepa López, Txema Blasco, Iñake Irastorza, Ryan Cameron, Christian Tardío, Alejandro Jiménez, Lluís Homar, Juan Sanz, Sebastián Haro

ED Rosario Sáinz de Rozas

PROD DES Julio Esteban

MUSIC Xavier Capellas

SOUND Carlos Bonmatí, Pelayo Gutiérrez

San Sebastián (Competition), Toronto (Masters), Vancouver (Cinema of Our Time), San Francisco (World Cinema), Transilvania

Synopsis

In the small Basque town of Obaba, university student Lourdes (Bárbara Lennie) films a documentary for an assignment. As she records the locals’ stories, she comes to understand not only the eccentric villagers and the mysteries of Obaba, but also more of herself. Pillar López de Ayala and Juan Diego Botto also star in this engaging drama directed by Montxo Armendáriz and based on a collection of short stories by Bernardo Atxaga.

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San Fran Report: Obaba Review

By Twitchfilm.com on December 16, 2011
Michael Guillen reports … As Julio Cortazar is one of my favorite South American writers, Antonio Machado remains my favorite Spanish poet. One of my favorite poems of his reads: The eye you see is not
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