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Elegía de abril (2010)
Character: N/A
The poet Salvador Merlino didn’t live to see published April’s elegy, his last book, as he died when
it was still in the printing press. His daughter Mary (72) and his son, Carlos (74), kept the parcels of
copies of their father’s book stashed away for 50 years, high up, on top of a wardrobe. The curiosity
of young Federico will force them to come face to face with themselves.
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Potestad (2003)
Character: Tito
A 60 year old medic tries to reconstruct a traumatic fact that changed his life while he is in the subway: the lost of his ten years old daughter.
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Revancha de un amigo (1987)
Character: N/A
Ariel Llanarte, writer and journalist forced to live abroad, decides to return to the country. He has the purpose of finding out the reason why his best friend disappeared.
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Los amores de Kafka (1988)
Character: N/A
A movie director from Argentine travels to Prague to make a film about Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská.
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La revelación (1996)
Character: N/A
A young man who thinks he is immortal investigates that condition and considers the true meaning of happiness.
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Armonías del caos (2016)
Character: N/A
Dawn breaks and, like every day, Fernando and his wife repeat the ritual: go to the bathroom, have breakfast and go to work. Fernando's father, now alone, makes his fantasies come alive. But the irruption of an intruder changes his plans.
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Omisión (2013)
Character: Carlos Robledo
A deep crisis will lead a psychiatrist to the extreme decision of "cleanse" society. His path will cross Santiago Murray, a priest who has just returned to Buenos Aires, willing to assist the needy people of his neighborhood.
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La sonámbula (1998)
Character: Dr. Gazzar / Gauna
In a dystopian society, a government uses therapy and dreams to recover, or perhaps implant, memories to those lacking them.
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Los días de junio (1985)
Character: N/A
An actor exiled by the dictatorship, back to his country again and is reunited with his friends.
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DNI (La otra historia) (1989)
Character: N/A
A docu-fiction that interweaves a historical review of 19th and 20th-century Argentina, through the tension between economic autonomy and surrender to foreign interests, and the daily life of a worker and his family in the late 1980s.
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Las aventuras de Dios (2002)
Character: N/A
A man and a woman find themselves trapped inside what appears to be a dream that takes place in the labyrinthine corridors and mysterious rooms of a large hotel located by the sea.
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Contar hasta diez (1985)
Character: N/A
Argentina's turbulent political history is an uncredited but clearly present protagonist in this rather slow-paced story about Ramon (Oscar Martinez) and his search for his brother Pedro in the capital city of Buenos Aires. Pedro has disappeared at a time of upheaval, after a military junta takes over Argentina in 1976, killing thousands of leftists and dissidents. Unlike many others, Ramon's father has political ties that matter, but that may not change Pedro's fate, which could be death -- or like some who have been tortured, worse than death. This film was nominated for a Golden Bear award at the 1985 Berlin Film Festival.
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El acto en cuestión (1994)
Character: Rogelio
Miguel steals a trick from a magic book and becomes a world-renowned magician. However, the idea of the public discovering that this great trick is plagiarized from a book eats at his mind more and more.
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Los libros y la noche (2000)
Character: Bible Seller
A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation of some of his works and the staging of various aspects of his thought and his life.
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Últimas imágenes del naufragio (1989)
Character: Roberto
Roberto is an insurance salesman who dreams of writing his own novel. When he meets Estela, a young woman about to commit suicide, it serves him as material to make this work.
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Eva Perón (1996)
Character: Lonardi
Drama based on the life of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine strong-man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina until her death in 1952 at age 33.
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Un muro de silencio (1993)
Character: N/A
A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government.
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La Noche de los Lápices (1986)
Character: Raúl
The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.
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Valentín (2002)
Character: Hombre del bar
Valentin, an 8-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, is surrounded by problems in his family he finds only himself capable of solving.
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Los Chicos De La Guerra (1984)
Character: Coordinador grupo de padres
Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War.
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Buenos Aires viceversa (1996)
Character: TV host
This is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the past
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El almuerzo (2015)
Character: Ernesto Sábato
On May 5, 1976, writer Haroldo Conti was kidnapped by the military dictatorship, which had taken over Argentina that same year. Two weeks later, the newly elected de facto president, Jorge Rafael Videla, invited several figures of national culture to a private luncheon at the Government House: Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sábato, Horacio Ratti, Father Castellani, and the President's General, General Villarreal. The film narrates the historic event shared by these figures during one of the most disastrous moments in our history.
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Los chicos desaparecen (2008)
Character: N/A
Macias Möll spends his days surrounded by clocks and immersed in calculations about time. Driven by a deep desire, every afternoon he stubbornly tries to beat the clock and launches himself down the plaza's ramps in his wheelchair. There he is happy, surrounded by cheering children. The balanced balance between his deepest desire (to return to his childhood) and his present disability is threatened by the sudden disappearance of some children in the plaza, placing him as the sole suspect in a crime that has become public knowledge. A police inspector about to retire, a judge, a bishop, a beautiful young officer, a former Irish diplomat, and a market vendor are part of the cast of characters who take sides in this plot.
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El censor (1995)
Character: Alfonso
Close-up to a man who censored films during the military dictatorship in Argentina, slightly inspired by the infamous Miguel Paulino Tato.
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Gerente en dos ciudades (2003)
Character: Arquitecto
A manager of a Santa Fe bank, who apparently leads a normal life with his wife, actually has a lover in Paraná, as well as a terrible relationship with his father, a retired military man who became an executive of a multinational in Buenos Aires.
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Hombre mirando al sudeste (1987)
Character: Dr. Julio Denis
A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.
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