The Whistlers (2019)
La Gomera
Loyalty is not their language.
A Romanian police officer, determined to free from prison a crooked businessman who knows where a mobster's money is hidden, must learn the difficult ancestral whistling language (Silbo Gomero) used on the island of Gomera.
- Date of release
- 2019-09-13
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (187)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Thriller, Crime
- Director
- Corneliu Porumboiu
Casting
- Catrinel Marlon — Gilda
- Vlad Ivanov — Cristi
- Rodica Lazăr — Magda
- Sabin Tambrea — Zsolt
- Antonio Buíl — Kiko
- Agustí Villaronga — Paco
- István Téglás — Claudiu
- George Piștereanu — Alin
- Julieta Szönyi — Cristi's Mother
- Cristóbal Pinto — Carlito
- David Agranov — Denis
- Andrei Popescu — Liviu
Interesting facts
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1
The Whistlers is a 2019 crime black comedy thriller film directed by Corneliu Porumboiu and starring Vlad Ivanov. It premiered in competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Production
The film was produced through the director's company 42 km Film in collaboration with France's Les Films du Worso and Germany's Komplizen Film, with mk2 handling the distribution sales. Shooting took place in Romania and the Canary Islands.
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