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Director: | Miguel Bardem | ||
Screenplay: | Nacho Faerna | ||
Studio: | Aurum Producciones | ||
Editing: | Iván Aledo | ||
Cinematography: | Néstor Calvo | ||
Music: | Juan Bardem | ||
Country: | Spain | ||
Language: | Spanish |
The Ugliest Woman in the World (Spanish; Castilian: '''La mujer más fea del mundo'''|links=no)[1] is a 1999 Spanish science fiction comedy film directed by Miguel Bardem from a screenplay by Nacho Faerna which stars Elia Galera and Roberto Álvarez.
The plot is set in a futuristic 2011 Madrid, capital of the 3rd (Spanish) Republic. Extremely ugly woman Lola Otero is transformed into a beauty in the wake of an experiment carried out by a mad scientist, thereby going into a killing rampage to take revenge for all the humilliations she has suffered.[2]
The screenplay was penned by Nacho Faerna. The film is an Aurum Producciones production.
The film was presented at the 32nd Sitges Film Festival in October 1999.[3] It was released theatrically in Spain on 5 November 1999.
|-| align = "center" rowspan = "2" | 2000 || rowspan = "2" | 14th Goya Awards || Best New Director || Miguel Bardem || || rowspan = "2" | [4] |-| Best Special Effects || Alejandro Álvarez, David Martí, José Álvarez, Reyes Abades || |}