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Director: | Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo | ||
Screenplay: | Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo | ||
Cinematography: | Ángel Iguácel | ||
Editing: | Pedro Ribeiro | ||
Music: | Krishna Levy | ||
Language: | Spanish |
The Night of the Sunflowers (Spanish; Castilian: '''La noche de los girasoles'''|links=no) is a 2006 rural thriller-drama film directed and written by . The cast features Carmelo Gómez, Judith Diakhate, Celso Bugallo, Manuel Morón, Mariano Alameda, Vicente Romero and Walter Vidarte. It is a Spanish-French-Portuguese co-production.
Set in the village of Angosto, in the heart of rural Spain, the plot follows Esteban and Pedro (two speleologists) and Gabi (Esteban's girlfriend), as Cecilio, an elderly villager, is killed in the wake of a misunderstanding in the aftermath of the attempted sexual assault on Gabi by a salesman and ensuing violent confrontation.[1] [2]
The Night of the Sunflowers is a Spain-Portugal-France co-production.[3] Production companies included Alta Producción, Stop Line Films, The Film SAS and Arte France Cinéma. Locations in the province of Ávila (San Bartolomé de Béjar and Becedas) doubled as the fictional village of Angosto.
The film was theatrically released in Spain on 25 August 2006.[4] [5] It also screened at the Venice Days section of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival in September 2006.[6]
Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be a "gripping, assured debut", managing to find an "unlikely home for film noir in the forgotten hinterlands of the Spanish interior".[7]
|-| rowspan = "13" align = "center" | 2007 || rowspan = "8" | 62nd CEC Medals || colspan = "2" | Best Film || || rowspan = "8" | [8] |-| Best Director || Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo || |-| Best Original Screenplay || Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo || |-| Best Actor || Carmelo Gómez ||1 |-| Best New Artist || Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo || |-| Best Supporting Actor || Celso Bugallo || |-| Best Cinematography || Ángel Iguácel || |-| Best Editing || Pablo Ribeiro || |-| rowspan = "3" | 21st Goya Awards || Best Original Screenplay || Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo || || rowspan = "3" | [9] |-| Best New Director || Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo || |-| Best New Actor || Walter Vidarte || |-| 16th Actors and Actresses Union Awards || Best Film Actor in a Minor Role || Manuel Morón || || align = "center" | [10] |-| 51st Sant Jordi Awards || colspan = "2" | Best Debut Film || || [11] |}