Shape of Water, The

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Cinematographer: Dan Laustsen

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Producer: Miles Dale, Guillermo del Toro

Writer: Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor

Production designer: Paul Denham Austerberry

Editor: Sidney Wolinsky

Cast: Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Michael Stuhlbarg

Production Company: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Bullion Productions

Distribution company (world): Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Distribution company: Imperial CinePix Sp. z o.o.

Year: 2017

Country: USA

Time: 119

Elisa never had it easy. She is an orphan who never knew her parents. She is mute and treated by others as an inferior human being as a result. In a world where achievement is the only language, she is condemned to live from one month to the next in the service of successful men. And yet Elisa has something others do not: empathy and a wonderful imagination. These traits will help her in her work as a cleaner in a secret government laboratory. One day she accidentally encounters a strange creature straight out of old Hollywood movies that has been imprisoned by the American army. When she approaches the creature and actually comes into contact with it, she discovers that it is no beast, but a fragile and sensitive being worth knowing and talking to; a being that has been tainted by suffering at the hand of humans since the day it was born.

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