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The Secret Life of Words

Year:

2005

Duration:

115 min

Genres:

Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

7.6

Director:

Isabel Coixet

Awards:

24 wins & 14 nominations

Details

Country: Spain

Release Date: 2005-10-21

Filming Locations: Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK

Earnings

Budget: $5,000,000

Opening Weekend: $5,309 (USA) (17 December 2006)

Gross: $20,023 (USA) (6 May 2007)

Cast

Actor

Character

Sverre Anker Ousdal

The Secret Life of Words

Daniel Mays

The Secret Life of Words

Sarah Polley

Hanna

Tim Robbins

Josef

Javier Cámara

Simon

Danny Cunningham

Scott

Dean Lennox Kelly

Liam

Emmanuel Idowu

Abdul

Eddie Marsan

Victor

Steven Mackintosh

Doctor Sulitzer

Julie Christie

Inge

Reg Wilson

Factory Manager

Leonor Watling

Josef's friend's wife

Daphne Brown

Old Lady on Bus

Muriel Hobson

Old Lady on Bus

Joshua Miligan

Child (as Joshua Milligan)

Sheelagh Smith

Child

Nina Marléne

Peter Wight

Dullman

Did you know?

Trivia

Isabel Coixet wrote the role of Hannah with 'Sarah Polley' in mind.

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The story about a nurse named Cora that Josef tells to Hanna is a short-story named "La señorita Cora" by argentinean writer Julio Cortázar from his book "Todos los fuegos el fuego".

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The contact lenses damaged Tim Robbins' eyes. An ophthalmologist has required on set for a few days to supervise because Robbins refused to take them off.

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Goofs

If an employee requires medical treatment on an off-shore installation he would immediately be evacuated off.

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In order to fly out to the rig, Hanna would have had to do a three-day off-shore survival course. There seems to be no indication that she does this in the film.

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When she arrives at the oil rig by helicopter, Hanna is not wearing a transit or immersion suit. Wearing this is obligatory when travelling to off-shore installations in the North Sea.

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Quotes

Victor: He doesn't like to be with the others. He's a loner, too.

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Inge: Before the holocaust, Adolf Hitler called all of his collaborators together and in order to convince them that he could get away with his plan he asked them who remembers the extermination of the Armenians? That's what he said. Thirty years later nobody remembered the million Armenians exterminated in the cruelest possible way.

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Simon: Hanna?

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Faq

How does it end?

Hanna and Josef have two kids together. During the war in Yugoslavia she was held captive in a hotel, tortured and raped. There is some debate as to whether the voiceover narration is in the voice of an unborn daughter of Hanna's (possibly aborted), the personification of her survivor's shame, or if she was the mother who was forced to kill her daughter in the story she shares with Josef.

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