Karra Elejalde

  • Nacho Vigalondo – Los cronocrímenes AKA Timecrimes (2007)

    2001-2010MysteryNacho VigalondoSci-FiSpain

    Nacho Vigalondo’s time-travel thriller opens with Hector, a married commoner, living in the Spanish countryside, spying on a beautiful woman undressing in the woods near his property. Being a time traveller, he finds her assaulted and he, in turn, is attacked by a weird man whose head is swathed in pink bandages. A total disquieting mansion was thus created on the top of a hill. Fleeing, Hector encounters a scientific facility where a scientist persuades him to hide in a time machine. Travelling back in time just a few hours, he observes himself.

    All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama and suspense will lead to an unthinkable sort of crime. Who’s the murderer? Who’s the victim?Read More »

  • Alejandro Amenábar – Mientras dure la guerra aka While at War (2019) (HD)

    2011-2020Alejandro AmenábarDramaSpainWar

    While at War (Spanish: Mientras dure la guerra) is a 2019 Spanish historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar. It premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.

    Plot:
    Revered author Miguel de Unamuno (Karra Elejalde) decides to publicly support the Spanish coup of July 1936. He is immediately removed from his position as rector at the University of Salamanca by the Government of the Second Spanish Republic. Meanwhile, Nationalists succeed in taking control of Salamanca, and General Francisco Franco moves his headquarters to the city. Some of Unamuno’s colleagues are imprisoned on charges of affiliation. Unamuno, who believes he can have the influence to liberate the innocent, heads to Franco’s Palace, determined to beg him for clemency.Read More »

  • Julio Medem – Tierra aka Earth (1996)

    Drama1991-2000Julio MedemSpain

    Tierra (Earth, Julio Medem, 1996) opens with a hypnotic journey through space, as the camera soars through the ethereal atmosphere, descending towards an agricultural area, then focusing in on a lone traveler who is having a motivational conversation with himself. A remote village has been infested with woodlice, imparting an earthy taste to the locally produced wine. An exterminator, a self-described “complex” man named Ángel (Carmelo Gómez), has been hired by the town mayor to fumigate the region. Ángel’s inner voice, the figurative angel of his subconscious who has died but continues to exist (and interject opinions) within his corporal self, believes that he has been sent down to earth for a divine mission.Read More »

  • Nacho Vigalondo – Los cronocrímenes aka Timecrimes (2007)

    2001-2010Nacho VigalondoSci-FiSpainThriller

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    Plot Outline :
    Hector (Karra Elejalde) is spending a few days in the countryside with his girlfriend, Clara (Candela Fernández), when he sees something that catches his attention while playing with his binoculars. Looking at a nearby house near a wooded area, Hector spies a beautiful woman taking her clothes off, and decides to take a stroll and give her a closer look. However, when he arrives at the house several minutes later, the woman is lying in the grass and appears to either be dead or passed out.Read More »

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