The Olive Tree

The Olive Tree

El Olivo

Genres
Drama Comedy

Release Date: May 06, 2016

Runtime: 96 minutes

Rating: 6.7/10

Status: Released

Production Companies
  • Morena Films
  • Eurimages
  • Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
  • The Match Factory
  • Movistar Plus+
  • Natixis Coficiné
  • Olivo La Película, El
  • TVE
  • MEDIA Programme of the European Union
  • Seville International
  • Entertainment One

Overview

Alma’s family has been producing quality olive oil in the Baix Maestrat area of Spain’s Castellón for generations. Yet changing pressures in the industry have made their traditional practices economically untenable, and the family is now in the mass-production poultry business. Alma’s grandfather has not spoken in years. Sadness envelopes him, and he no longer wants to eat. His sons—Alma’s father and uncle—are impatient with him, but Alma understands her grandfather. She realizes he has been grieving for a thousand-year-old olive tree that the family has uprooted and sold to pay some debts. (A sadly common reality in Castellón at present.) Unable to bear the idea that her grandfather could die without seeing this terrible wrong corrected, Alma undertakes a quixotic mission to locate the tree and return it to the family orchard, so that her grandfather may have peace in his final days.

"Never lose touch with your roots."

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Cast

Anna Castillo, Javier Gutiérrez, Pep Ambròs, Manuel Cucala, Miguel Ángel Aladrén ,

Carme Pla, Ana Isabel Mena, María Romero, Paula Usero, Janina Agnes Schröder, Cris Blanco, Paco Manzanedo, Inés Ruiz, Aina Requena, Pia Stutzenstein, Hannah Werth, Pilar García, Alberto Montes, Lesley Jennifer Higl, Cristina García, Iñaki Mur, Ana Ulloa, Alexander Eisenbraun, Jürgen Klein, Rafa Cantos, Anselmo Sospedra, Francisco Marín, Emilio Verges, Ángel Ferreres, Alba Saura, José Torres, María Dolores Bel, Nicolás Ogalla, Vicent Cauxach, Natxo Rodes, Daniel Rueda, Juanma Lara

Crew

Sergi Gallardo, Icíar Bollaín, Pascal Gaigne, Juan Gordon, Nacho Ruiz Capillas ,

Mireia Juárez, Laia Colet, Anja Fromm, Irene Milla, Cristina Foradada, Stefan Isfort, Marta Bazaco, Ángela Nahum, Fran Cruz, Susa Sasserath, Núria Casanueva, Rocío Redondo, Tatiana Dunyó, Tito Arcas, Georg Nonnenmacher, Paul Pieck, José Haro, Marino Scandurra, Julio Fernández Santa, Josep Claret, Iñaki Díez, Roger Orcau, Miguel Barbosa, Diego S. Staub, Andrea Paralta, Sergio Testón, Pelayo Gutiérrez, Marcela Barreto, Karmele Soler, Ute Paffendorf, Eva Valiño, Pelayo Gutiérrez, Elena Alcolea, Cristina Zumárraga, Pilar Benito, Pedro Uriol, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, Paul Laverty, Paco Rodríguez H.