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An initiative
of the EU MEDIA Programme with the support of the Italian Government
 Since
1992 MEDIA Salles has been promoting the European cinema and its circulation
at theatrical level |
EURO
KIDS - SCREENINGS 2003/2004
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| The 4th Floor | |
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Original Title |
Planta 4Ş |
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Director |
Antonio Mercero |
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Genre |
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Country of origin |
Spain |
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Language spoken |
Spanish |
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Year of production |
2003 |
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Admissions |
772,205 (Spain, as at 7 December 2003)) |
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Box Office |
€ 5,100,000 (Spain, as at 18 January 2004) |
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Production |
Boca Boca Producciones S.L. (E) |
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Domestic distribution/World Sales |
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Domestic release |
31 October 2003 (Spain) |
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Official website |
www.terra.es/cine/plantacuarta/index1.html |
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Awards |
Montréal World Film Festival 2003 (Best Director) |
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Suggested by |
Peter Koliha, Artistic Director of the Zlín
Festival |
A group of 15-year-old boys live in a very peculiar "block": the orthopedic ward of a children's hospital, where the patients have various forms of cancer. Armed with irrepressible good cheer and a tenacious desire to live their lives fully, Miguel Angel, Izán, Dani and Jorge defy destiny and carry on as if this microworld ruled by men and women in white coats was a thoroughly normal environment for adolescent boys. Besides their high-sodium drinks, there are always new patients to meet, nurses to play jokes on, nightly excursions through the hospital corridors, basketball games against the team from St. Paul's. Friendship and group acceptance are important at their age, but they are absolutely essential when you are spending your life in pyjamas between four walls. Still, this doesn't mean that you've given up your individual identity. Each of the protagonists in 4th FLOOR has his personal problems and his own way of dealing with them…