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Completed - SPANISH - Drama - 75 minutes

Log Line

Alma and Samuels life’s have gone by in the mountains from which they have never left. “Samuel” takes place in a scenario that leaves you speechless, a fascinating and terrible place, familiar and unknown at the same time.

Previous markets

  • Ventana Sur 2011 (Debut)
  • Busan 2012 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2011

Director(s) : Cesar LUCENA
Writer(s) : Cesar LUCENA
Cast : Amanda TROCONIS, Erich WILDPRET

Producer(s) : Alberto ARVELO, Tony FADEL

Synopsis

Before tragedy our fortitude and our faith finds itself put trough trials. This is the story of a man tormented man who possesses a great gift. It is a story about how to heal the souls deep wounds and about which are the decisions one has to make to heal them.
Alma and Samuel are a young couple of country folk that long to have a child. They believe they have fertility problems and try to get help from a eccentric Spaniard doctor that heals illnesses through hypnosis. When the doctor tries to hypnotize Alma something extraordinary happens: Samuel is the one who falls under hypnosis and in this state is able to give a diagnosis on his wife. Samuel is able to pinpoint the most difficult illnesses and indicate the most effective treatments only when he is immerged in the dimensions of the unconscious. Never the less few people benefit from this mysterious faculty, because Samuel far from gaining satisfaction and heroism he rejects his gift. The key to his almost misanthropic character lies in the painful relationship he had with his father before he died.
More people seek Samuel for help, he continues tormented by his past, giving his back to God and ignoring his gift, until his small son falls ill.

Production

Country(ies) : VENEZUELA

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