Tesis
DVD Cover, showing Torrent
Directed by	Alejandro Amenábar
Produced by	Alejandro Amenábar, Six others
Written by	Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil
Starring	Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Ana Torrent
Music by	Alejandro Amenábar
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Distributed by
Released	1996
Running time	125 min, (Mexico: 118 min)
Language	Spanish
Budget	P116,000,000
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Followed by	{{{followed_by}}}
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For other uses, see Thesis (disambiguation).

Tesis (Thesis) is a 1996 Spanish film. The feature debut of director Alejandro Amenábar, and written by him and Mateo Gil, it won seven 1997 Goya Awards (and was nominated for an eighth), including the award for Best Film. It stars Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez and Eduardo Noriega. Download high resolution version (593x850, 82 KB)Poster for the film Tesis File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972) is a Chilean-born Spanish film director, widely considered one of the most important Spanish directors working today even though he has directed only four films. ... Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972) is a Chilean-born Spanish film director, widely considered one of the most important Spanish directors working today even though he has directed only four films. ... Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972) is a Chilean-born Spanish film director, widely considered one of the most important Spanish directors working today even though he has directed only four films. ... Mateo Gil Rodríguez (b. ... Rafael (Fele) Martínez was born in 1975 en Alicante, Spain. ... There are two film actors named Eduardo Noriega: Spanish actor Eduardo Noriega born 1973 who appeared in Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes). ... Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972) is a Chilean-born Spanish film director, widely considered one of the most important Spanish directors working today even though he has directed only four films. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The peseta is the former currency of Spain and, (along with the French Franc), of Andorra. ... Thesis is a word used to mean variously: A formal academic work, see Thesis. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972) is a Chilean-born Spanish film director, widely considered one of the most important Spanish directors working today even though he has directed only four films. ... Mateo Gil Rodríguez (b. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Goya Awards, known in Spanish as los Premios Goya, are Spains main national film awards. ... Rafael (Fele) Martínez was born in 1975 en Alicante, Spain. ... There are two film actors named Eduardo Noriega: Spanish actor Eduardo Noriega born 1973 who appeared in Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes). ...

Plot synopsis

Ángela (Torrent) is a film student at the Madrid's University Complutense. Searching for research material for her Thesis (hence the film's title) on audio-visual violence, she attains the friendship of Chema (Martínez), a fellow student and introvert with an encyclopedic collection of violent and pornographic films. Madrid is the capital and largest city in Spain, as well as in the province and the autonomous community of the same name. ... The Complutense University of Madrid, in Spanish Universidad Complutense de Madrid, is a prestigious Spanish university, located in Madrid. ... A thesis (literally: position from the Greek θέσις) is an intellectual proposition. ... This article deals with the psychological term Introversion. ...

After her professor dies while watching a film she steals the videotape, discovering that it is a snuff film featuring a girl whom she and Chema recognize as another student at the university - and a former girlfriend of current student Bosco (Noriega). Investigating the origins of the tape, they are drawn into the operations of a chilling snuff ring. A professor (Latin: one who publicly professes to be an expert) (or prof for short) is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... A snuff film is a film that depicts an actual murder, produced for entertainment purposes. ...

Major cast

• Fele Martínez as Chema
• Eduardo Noriega as Bosco Herranz
• Ana Torrent as Ángela Márquez

Rafael (Fele) Martínez was born in 1975 en Alicante, Spain. ... There are two film actors named Eduardo Noriega: Spanish actor Eduardo Noriega born 1973 who appeared in Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes). ...

Trivia

• The film was shot in a relatively short five and a half week shoot, preceded by a month of rehearsals.
• The film had a relatively small budget of P116 million - equal to about €696,000.
• Amenábar wrote some of this film while still at University, and that University was the Complutense, as featured in this film.
• One of the teachers who kept failing Amenábar at University had his name used in the film - as the sinister Professor Castro.
• Amenábar's name is visible at one point in the film - on a computer screen listing Sony XT-500 customers. (The XT-500 is a video camera which features prominently within the film itself.)

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See also

• IMDb profile (IMDb)
• Profile from Amenábar.com