Apartment Zero (1988)

Country of Origin: UK/Argentina
Year of Production: 1988
Running Times: 124 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Producers Representative Organization/Summit Company
Executive Producer: Stephen J. Cole
Producers: Martin Donovan, David Koepp
Associate Producer: Ezequiel Donovan
Production Manager: Hugo Lauria

SCRIPT
Script: Martin Donovan, David Koepp
Story: Martin Donovan

DIRECTION
Director: Martin Donovan
1st Assistant Director: Fernando Altschul
Assistant Directors: Carlos Gil, Göran Johansson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Miguel Rodríguez

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Conrad M. Gonzalez
1st Assistant Editor: Ron South
Post Production Supervisor: John Orland

MUSIC
Music: Elia Cmiral
Song: Enrique Santos Discepolo (Cambalache)
Song Arranged By: Luis Maria Serra (Cambalache)

SOUND
Sound Designer: Martin Maryska
Re-Recording Mixers: Andy D'Addario, Doug Hemphill, Howard Wilmarth
Supervising Sound Editor: Martin Maryska
Sound Editor: John Morris

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Mirta Blanco
Hair: Alberto Moccia
Costume Designers: Angélica Fuentes, Marisa Urruti

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Miguel Ángel Lumaldo
Art Director: Miguel Ángel Lumaldo

OTHER CREW
Script Supervisor: Claudio Reiter

LOCATIONS
Locations: Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina

CAST
Hart Bochner (Jack Carney)
Colin Firth (Adrian LeDuc)
Dora Bryan (Margaret McKinney)
Liz Smith (Mary Louise McKinney)
Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Carlos Sanchez-Verne)
James Telfer (Vanessa)
Mirella D'Angelo (Laura Werpachowsky)
Juan Vitali (Alberto Werpachowsky)
Cipe Lincovsky (Mrs Treniev)
Francesca d'Aloja (Claudia)
Miguel Ligero (Mr Palma)
Elvia Andreoli (Adrian's mother)
Marikena Monti (Tango singer)
Luis Romero (projectionist)
Oca Spirito (woman in cinema 1)
Micky Chapman (woman in cinema 2)
Claudia Rosemblat (nurse 1)
Sandra Calderón (nurse 2)
Max Berliner, Mane Arauz, María José Catino (prospective tenants)
Debora Bianco (girl in cafe)
Federico D'Elia (boy in cafe)
Rosario Varela, Veronica Gambini (girls with Carlos in Building)
Raúl Florido (Jack's Argentine contact)
Claudio Ciacci (young man in cinema)
Gabriel Posniak (dead man)
Guillermo Willart (paramedic 1)
Javier Balina (paramedic 2)
Darwin Sanchez (police inspector)
Daniel Queirolo (young cop)
Miguel Ángel Porro (taxi driver)
Ezequiel Donovan, Eduardo Peralta Ramos, John Kamps, Göran Johansson (foreign elements)
Lisanne Cole, Germán Palacios, Horacio Erman, Inés Estévez, Roberto Baldi, Sebastian De Nico, Ruth Jasiuk, Marina Zemma, Pablo Lena, Juan Jose Gato (political group in cinema)
Mario Franco (doctor at Institution)
Daniel Astesano (Immigration Officer)
Gabriel Corrado (victim in hotel room)
Alfredo Quesada (speaker at group meeting)
Stephen J. Cole (strange looking man in airport)
Jorge Caseres (young man with Vanessa)

Adrian LeDuc runs a failing revival movie cinema and is forced to rent out his insane mothers room to make ends meet. His new lodger, Jack Carney, may not be all that he seems - could he be the serial killer that is stalking the streets of Buenos Aires?

Australia
Video Distributor: RCA/Columbia-Hoyts Home Video

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Skouras Pictures
Video Distributor: Academy Video

USA
Rating: R

1989
Seattle International Film Festival, USA
Golden Space Needle Award Best Film - winner

1990
Cognac Festival du Film Policier, France
Critics Award (Martin Donovan) - winner
Special Jury Prize (Martin Donovan) - winner

1989
September
8: Canada - shown at the Toronto Film Festival
14: West Germany - theatrical release
15: USA - theatrical release (in Seattle, Washington)

1990
June
20: France - theatrical release

Apartament zero - Polish title
Vaarallinen muukalainen - Finnish title

MAGAZINES

cinema 31 August 1989 (Germany)
review (by Malwine Blunck)

Première June 1990 p.24 (France)
review (by Jean-Philippe Guerand)

Studio July/August 1990 p.9 (France)
review (by Michel Rebichon)

KEYWORDS

serial killers, cinemas, apartments, homosexuality

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008