Agnosía (film)
Encyclopedia
Agnosía is a Spanish baroque retro-futuristic thriller directed by Eugenio Mira and written by Antonio Trashorras
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, a strange, primary visual disease that is one of the neuropsychological disorders of perception. Although her eyes and ears are in perfect condition, her brain is not able to correctly interpret the stimuli it receives. Joana is the only person to know an industrial secret left behind by her late father and becomes the victim of a sinister plan to extract this information. Her captors plan to use her sensory condition to help extract the information that they so desperately want.
and Parc Nacional d'Aigüestortes Estany de Sant Maurici in Province of Lleida. It was the second film directed by producer Eugenio Miro and based on a screenplay by Antonio Trashorras. In the leads in the thriller acts Eduardo Noriega
, Martina Gedeck
, Bárbara Goenaga and Jack Taylor
in his second feature film under Eugenio Mira.
Antonio Trashorras
-Biography:He collaborated on the screenplay of The Devil's Backbone, and Agnosía. He has worked in the Spanish television.-External links:...
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Plot
The protagonist is a young woman, Joana Prats suffering from agnosiaAgnosia
Agnosia is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss...
, a strange, primary visual disease that is one of the neuropsychological disorders of perception. Although her eyes and ears are in perfect condition, her brain is not able to correctly interpret the stimuli it receives. Joana is the only person to know an industrial secret left behind by her late father and becomes the victim of a sinister plan to extract this information. Her captors plan to use her sensory condition to help extract the information that they so desperately want.
Cast
- Eduardo NoriegaEduardo Noriega (Spanish actor)Eduardo Noriega Gómez is a Spanish film actor, perhaps best known for his roles in two Alejandro Amenábar films, the multiple Goya Award-winning Tesis and Open Your Eyes . He also starred in The Wolf...
as Carles - Félix Gómez as Vicent
- Bárbara GoenagaBarbara GoenagaBarbara Goenaga Bilbao is a Spanish actress born in San Sebastián, Guipuzcoa, Spain. She is niece of the actress, writer and film director Aitzpea Goenaga and daughter of the famous painter Juan Luis Goenaga.-Biography:...
as Joana Prats - Martina GedeckMartina GedeckMartina Gedeck is a German actress. She came to broader, international attention due to her roles in films such as Mostly Martha, The Lives of Others, and The Baader Meinhof Complex...
as Prevert - Luis Zahera as Mariano
- Jack TaylorJack Taylor (actor)Jack Taylor is an American actor. He first relocated to Mexico in the late 1950s/early 1960s, and later to Spain, where he has appeared in many films, mostly horror and cheesy exploitation pictures...
as Meissner - Sergi Mate as Artur Prats
- Miranda Makaroff as Nuria
Production
Roxbury Pictures shot the film in December 2009 at BarcelonaBarcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
and Parc Nacional d'Aigüestortes Estany de Sant Maurici in Province of Lleida. It was the second film directed by producer Eugenio Miro and based on a screenplay by Antonio Trashorras. In the leads in the thriller acts Eduardo Noriega
Eduardo Noriega
Eduardo Noriega may refer to:*Eduardo Noriega *Eduardo Noriega...
, Martina Gedeck
Martina Gedeck
Martina Gedeck is a German actress. She came to broader, international attention due to her roles in films such as Mostly Martha, The Lives of Others, and The Baader Meinhof Complex...
, Bárbara Goenaga and Jack Taylor
Jack Taylor (actor)
Jack Taylor is an American actor. He first relocated to Mexico in the late 1950s/early 1960s, and later to Spain, where he has appeared in many films, mostly horror and cheesy exploitation pictures...
in his second feature film under Eugenio Mira.