A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
October 24, 1986
Original Title:
El vivo retrato
Genres:
Comedy | Science Fiction
Production Companies:
Ayuntamiento de Avilés
Gobierno del Principado de Asturias
Joaquín Mario Menéndez García P.C.
Ministerio de Cultura
Production Countries:
Spain
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 97
The year is 2045. Jonás Godesberg, a man who looks amazingly like Luis Eduardo Aute, dictates his memoirs to a computer. He tells the story of how his grandfather, German scientist Gustav Godesberg, who developed genetic engineering experiments for the Nazis during World War II, arrived to the Spanish coast after surviving a ship wreck, and there fell for Amalia, a prostitute nicknamed 'The German'. Together, they developed a business out of selling babies that had been genetically modified to look like whoever the buyer wanted them to.
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