Back المنصة (فيلم) Arabic المنصه ARZ Platforma (film, 2019) Azerbaijani El hoyo Catalan سەکۆکە (فیلم) CKB El Hoyo Welsh Der Schacht German El hoyo (película) Spanish El hoyo Basque پلتفرم (فیلم) Persian
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| The Platform | |
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| Spanish | El hoyo |
| Literally | The Hole |
| Directed by | Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia |
| Screenplay by |
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| Story by | David Desola |
| Produced by | Carlos Juárez |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Jon D. Domínguez |
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| Music by | Aranzazu Calleja |
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| Distributed by | Festival Films |
Release dates | |
Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
| Box office | $1.1 million[2][3] |
The Platform (Spanish: El hoyo, lit. 'The Hole') is a 2019 Spanish dystopian thriller film[4] directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia.[5] The film is set in a large, industrial tower named the "Vertical Self-Management Center." Residents of the tower are imprisoned in the center as punishment for committing crimes. Every month, prisoners switch between the tower's many floors and are fed by a vertically moving platform with food on it. The platform is initially filled with lots of food, and gradually descends through the tower's levels, stopping for a fixed amount of time on each floor. Since the residents of each floor tend to eat as much food as they can, those on the lower floors are unable to eat as much food as those at the top, leading to conflict.[5]
The film's cast includes Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan, Zorion Eguileor, Emilio Buale Coka and Alexandra Masangkay.[5] It premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where it won the People's Choice Award for Midnight Madness.[6] At TIFF, the film also secured a worldwide streaming deal with Netflix.[7] It was released theatrically in Spain on 8 November 2019 by Festival Films. It received generally positive reviews from critics.
- ^ "El Hoyo - El 8 de noviembre en cines" (in Spanish). 10 September 2019. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
- ^ "The Platform". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
- ^ "El Hoyo (2019) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
- ^ Rapold, Nicolas (26 August 2022). "Foreign Films, English Titles and the Dilemma Distributors Face". The New York Times.
- ^ a b c Amy Nicholson, "Toronto Film Review: 'The Platform'" Archived 4 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Variety, 10 September 2019.
- ^ Jessica Wong, "TIFF 2019: Jojo Rabbit captures TIFF People's Choice Award" Archived 30 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine. CBC News, 15 September 2019.
- ^ Jeremy Kay, "Netflix takes world on TIFF Midnight Madness hit 'The Platform'" Archived 15 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Screen Daily, 10 September 2019.