“The body of Anna Fritz” leading to Sitges debate necrophilia – El Universal (Venezuela)

Sitges (Spain) .- The Spanish film “The body of Anna Fritz”, the debut of the director Hector Hernandez, located in the antipodes as usual screenwriter child series “The Lunnies “It took today Fantastic Film Festival of Sitges debate about the morality of necrophilia

The plot of the film is simple:. the famous actress Anna Fritz died, leaving such a young and beautiful corpse when three friends sneak into the morgue to contemplate, they can not resist the temptation to push the boundaries and decide to have sex with the dead body.

The turning point of the plot occurs very soon, when the actress wakes of his death.

Hernandez reported that Google found on news of a life that had awakened after being raped. “But necrophilia, in itself, not me interested, but the extreme situation where all the characters face,” he said.

You do not see big difference between his work as a screenwriter or director, as “writing and directing has much in common, because when you write a script have a story in my head, and when heading have to assemble what you have in mind.”

It’s not even so different their work in this movie I did for the children’s series of Spanish television: “With Lunnies I wrote many horror stories, but thinking of a young audience, so could not talk about dolls having sex with another dead doll”

<. p> For the cast of the film, which had a low budget, had three young actors, Alba Ribas, Cristian Valencia Bernat Saumell and Albert Carbo, an age that, as a filmmaker, nor was chosen thinking of an audience.

Hector Hernandez, who during the presentation received a wreath, said that when he wrote the script took into account that “allow a simple production, with few actors, few complex actions, not things that were broken and everything in a single space; and further that much planning could roll quickly and with little money. “

In the interpretive work highlights the performance of Alba Ribas, who plays the woman, still at the beginning and very expressive with face and eyes after awakening from death and see the rest of your body does not respond at all.

“The first time I read the script I made a mountain, but I can say that the distance the key to success was tested five weeks and have had the advice of a doctor to help me with the body part, said the actress.

As the cast is featured as space, cold hospital morgue, that, in the words of Hernandez, generates “an obsessive relationship and problems with planes that have to evolve to not be repetitive.

At this point, the film references cited as” Funny Games “or some titles David Cronenberg, in which “the space gives the story a dimension.”