Roberto Lar

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Ico, the Brave Horse
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A young horse wishes to be one of the king's horses, and while trying to achieve it, finds out that one of the king's horses mysteriously disappear every night.
Poor Butterfly
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A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.
Nights Without Moons and Suns
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A criminal escapes from a court, with help of three miscreants, to find his lifelong friend, who is terminally ill. The police officer catch knows there is a hidden loot involved.
The Children of Fierro
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Peronist view of its history between the fall in 1955 and the electoral triumph of 1973 using a metaphor of the poem Martin Fierro.
Alone
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A separated woman faces her future and revises her goals.
La Raulito
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The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires. The film shows the teenage Raulito wandering between a reformatory for juvenile offenders, prison and psychiatric hospital. Raulito manages to escape, and finds work at Constitución railway station in Barrio Constitución. Raulito meets up with another street child and they become close friends. They both eventually manage to escape to Mar del Plata.
The Adventures of Hijitus
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Anteojito and Antifaz, A Thousand Attempts and One Invention
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Anteojito and Antifaz live in an apartment house in Villa Trompeta, a fantasy city with funny animals, dancing vegetables, and Uncle Antifaz’s enemy, Cachavacha the witch, living with Pajarraco her owl, in the apartment right under his. Uncle Antifaz tries to invent an invisibility formula with Anteojito’s help, and Cachavacha tries to steal it.
Heroína
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A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.
Crónica de una señora
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Following the death of a close friend, a woman caught in an unhappy marriage looks for ways to improve her life.
Este loco verano
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A pop group is chased by a gang of criminals who wants to seize the loot from a robbery.
The House We Live In
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A portrait of a Chilean middle-class family in the 1940s and 1970s.
Juan Lamaglia y Sra.
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The Players vs. Ángeles Caídos
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An avant-garde theater troupe works through a series of unrelated episodes on en empty sound stage.
The Hour of the Furnaces
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An impassioned three-part documentary of the liberation struggle waged throughout Latin America, using Argentina as a historical example of the imperialist exploitation of the continent. Part I: Neo-Colonialism and Violence is a historical, geographic, and economic analysis of Argentina. Part II: An Act For Liberation examines the ten-year reign of Juan Perón (1945-55) and the activities of the Peronist movement after his fall from power. Part III: Violence and Liberation studies the role of violence in the national liberation process and constitutes a call for action.