SYNOPSIS:
At 19 years of age Mary Shelly “gave birth”
to the monster, Frankenstein. Here we see the vertiginous
process of creation in romantic solitude amongst the
major characters, Lord Byron, Percy Bisshe Shelley, Mary
herself, her sister, Clara and the disturbing Doctor Polidori.
CREDITS:
Director et Script: Gonzalo Suárez
Producer: Andrés V. Gómez and G.
Suárez
Executive Producer: Andrés V. Gómez
Photography: Carlos Suárez
Set Designer: Wolfgang Burmann
Musical director: Alejandro Massó
Costume design: Ivonne Blake
Music based on the works of Beethoven,
Paganini, Tomaschek, Sphor, Vaughn-
Williams and Mozart.
CAST:
Lord Byron: Hugh Grant
Mary Shelley: Lizzy McInnerny
Shelley: Valentine Pelka
Claire Clairmont: Elizabeth Hurley
Polidori: José Luis Gómez
Virginia Mataix, Ronan Vibert, José Carlos
Rivas, Kate cKenzie, Jolyon Baker, Terry
Taplin, Karen Westwood, Bibi Andersen
AWARDS:
• The Silver Shell for best direction San
Sebastian film festival 1988
• 6 Goya awards from the Spanish Film
Academy
• Numerous awards and film festivals.
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