Barcelona looks eerily empty - take a glance at the Camp Nou like you’ve never seen it before: deserted, with a guy all bandaged up but dressed in a suit, giving advice in riddles. What are those choppers doing, hovering over the city? And whose tanks are prowling the streets? There’s a killer on the loose, but that’s no reason for an evacuation. There’s a professor who’s convinced that victims are a particular type of human being but wouldn’t know whether he himself is one of them. There’s a cop who might have more of an anarchistic bent than he would ever admit to himself. There’s a model who understands that murders are there to be faced...
Fata Morgana is a moving-image comic book, an avant-garde giallo, a surrealist experiment in terror, a pop thriller, maybe a dystopian science fiction film, certainly a scathingly sinister political allegory in often flashy colours.
- Director
- Vicente Aranda
- Country of production
- Spain
- Year
- 1965
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 84'
- Medium
- 35mm
- Language
- Spanish
- Producer
- Jose Lopez Moreno
- Production Company
- Films Internacionales
- Screenplay
- Gonzalo Suárez, Vicente Aranda
- Cinematography
- Aurelio G. Larraya
- Editor
- Emilio Rodríguez
- Production Design
- Pablo Gago
- Sound Design
- Jordi Sangenís
- Music
- Antonio Pérez Olea
- Cast
- Teresa Gimpera