INDEX01 STORYLINE

02 PRINCIPAL TECHNICAL CREW

03 CAST

04 DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

05 DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY

06 PRODUCER’S FILMOGRAPHY

01. STORYLINEAnna Fritz is a beautiful and famous actress that has just died. Three young men sneak into the mortuary to see her naked body, and they can’t resist having sex with her. Victims of their most primal instincts, they will descend into a hell from which is very hard to escape.

02. PRINCIPAL TECHNICAL CREWDIRECTION Hèctor Hernández VicensSCREENPLAY Hèctor Hernández Vicens Isaac P. CreusEXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Oriol Maymó Alberto Aranda Xavier Atance Bernat Saumell Hèctor Hernández VicensDIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPY Ricard CanyellasPRODUCTION DESIGN Carmen SanfranciscoART DIRECTION ZeroQuatreEDITING Alberto BernadSOUND DESIGN Albert Manera / Miquel LlinàsMUSIC Tolo PratsDIRECT SOUND Urko GaraiSOUND DESIGN Albert Manera / Miquel LlinàsMIXING Albert ManeraCOSTUME Pi PiquerMAKEUP AND HAIR STYLIST Cristina Pellisé

03. CASTANNA FRITZ Alba RibasIVÁN Cristian ValenciaJAVI Bernat SaumellPAU Albert Carbó

04. DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. “ E. A. Poe

Several years ago I read in a newspaper that a hospital orderly had raped a corpse. I was at the time looking for a story about characters dragged by their most primitive instincts, and I thought that could be a good starting point. What was in the mind of that orderly when he realized that eve-rybody (his family, friends, acquaintances...) would know that he was a necrophile? That’s how the plot of ‘The Corpse of Anna Fritz’ was born. A group of characters perform a morally vile action –raping a corpse– and they find themselves in a situation where they must commit murder if they don’t want the entire world to find out what they have done.

Fear allows, and sometimes drives us, to kill. But killing, at first, isn’t that easy for a normal person. In order to do it, he needs to dehumanize or hate whomever he’s going to kill. This perverse mechanism of our nature is what the movie is based on. My aim was to depict that fine border that sets apart what makes us human from what makes us monsters. The most normal person can easily become a monster. If not, nothing could explain human behavior during war and genocide. There are sev-eral forms of monstrosity and I wanted to explore the most primitive and basic one. The one that’s derived from a wickedness that’s almost un-evolved. A wickedness, at the beginning, without sadism. A wickedness exerted by characters that in normal circumstances would never want to do evil. A wickedness that even destroys psychologically the ones that experiences it. A wickedness born out of necessity, but that would have never emerged in characters of higher morality.

To search for this simple and basic wickedness, I chose simple and basic characters. Low-middle class, low education. Young people that work to spend what they earn in alcohol, drugs and sex. The most normal people I had on hand.

’The Corpse of Anna Fritz’ has only four actors and a single location. The action is told with unity of action and place. A morgue, a single night (about three hours). Without emotional ellipses, with the characters be-ing present all the time. A time and a place that are part of the story, and that contain it. A time and a place that, too, grind the characters as much as their doubts and decisions. A place that gives physicality to the action, and a time that reminds us that the end is imminent. The camera never narrates, it is always psychological, looking to convey in the most direct manner the emotions and feelings, and to bridge the gap between viewers and characters. Always with the aim of making the viewer feel the anxiety that the characters are experiencing.

Hèctor H. Vicens

05. DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHYHèctor Hernández Vicens

(Mallorca, 1975) Novelist, screenwriter and TV director. He’s written the novels ‘Allunyeu-vos dels professors’ (Stay away from the teachers), that won the Vila de Perpinyà prize, ‘Odi’ (Hatred) and ‘Qui s’apunta a matar la meva mare’ (Who wants to kill my mother). He’s worked as a screen-writer in several TV series and telefilms. He co-wrote the feature film ’Fè-nix 11*23’, that won the best film award at the Vittorio Venetto Film Fes-tival. He’s also been the showrunner of the children series ’Los Lunnis’, which has won more than 50 prizes in Europe, Japan and the USA. ’The Corpse of Anna Fritz’ is his first feature film as a director.

05. PRODUCER’S FILMOGRAPHY‘El cadáver de... AIE’ is a merger of five independent production companies: A Contraluz Films, Corte y Confección de Películas, Benecé Produccions,

Playtime Movies and Silendum Films to produce the film ‘The Corpse of Anna Fritz’ a genre film with the intention to search for international markets.

In the history of the different producers there are films like ‘Requisitos para ser una persona normal’ by Leticia Dolera, ‘La propera pell’ by Isaki Lacuesta, the documentary ‘Món Petit’ by Marcel Barrena and ‘Otel·lo’ by Hammudi Al-Rahmoun Font, all by Corte y Confección de Películas. Benecé Produccions has produced ‘Los Condenados’ and ‘Cravan vs Cravan’ by Isaki Lacuesta, ‘Dies d’agost’ by Marc Recha, the documentary ‘Swimming’ by Carla Subirana, ‘Ingrid’ and ‘The Clown and the Führer’ directed by Eduard Cortés, ‘Fènix 11*23’ by Joel Joan and Sergi Lara, ‘Goya, el secreto de la sombra’ by David Mauas, among many others. ‘Savage Grace’ by Tom Kalin, or ‘La Estrella’ by Alberto Aranda are films produced by A Contraluz Films; and Playtime Movies has produced ‘Barcelona Nit d’Estiu’ by Dani de la Orden. All are titles which have been selected and have won numer-ous awards at international festivals.

‘The Corpse of Anna Fritz’ has been released this 2015 in the Midnight-ers section of the SXSW South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, it has been presented in the Marché du Film in Cannes and it will participate in the official section of the Sitges Film Festival 2015.