72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
Languages
Official
Sponsors
Media
Partner

Aro Tolbukhin - En la mente del asesino

Agustí Villaronga , Lydia Zimmermann , Isaac P. Racine
Spain - Mexico      94 m.
Synopsis
Director
In 1981, the Hungarian Aro Tolbukhin was arrested for having burned alive seven people in the infirmary of Guatemala's Misión del Divino Redentor. In detention, Aro Tolbukhin also confessed to having killed five women and burnt their corpses. Not only that, but he pleaded guilty to having assassinated another seventeen women, all pregnant, over the fifteen years during which he had worked as a merchant seaman. On examining the unsolved files of these cases, the judicial investigation didn't take long to find substantial incoherence raising doubts about the responsibility Tolbukhin so insisted was his. He was condemned to death. Shortly before his execution he was interviewed by two French documentary makers. Based on this material, the film attempts to take a closer look at this character and the reasons for his behaviour.
Director
Agustí Villaronga (Spain), Lydia Zimmermann (Spain), Isaac P. Racine (Canada)
Screenplay
Agustí Villaronga, Lydia Zimmermann, Isaac P. Racine
Photography
Guillermo Granillo
Edition
Ernest Blasi
Music
José Manuel Pagán
Cast
Daniel Giménez Cacho, Carmen Beato, Zóltán Józan, Mariona Castillo, Aram González
Sales
Oberon Cinematogràfica
Running Time
94 m.
Country
Spain - Mexico
Official Sponsor:
Media Partner:
Official Collaborators:
Associated Institutions: