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Through the memories and confessions of some of the most important names in Uruguayan music, the film brings back to life the stories of the songs that defined a country and that, in some cases, helped change history.
Music
One is a former police officer, bodyguard and hairdresser. Currently retired, he takes care of his extravagant and almost hundred-year-old illiterate mother. He writes poems and hopes to see them published one day. The other, a declared womanizer, workaholic, and leftist, was imprisoned during the dictatorship, runs a small grocery shop, and controls the life of his young second wife. Both were born in the Uruguayan hinterland during the Second World War, and share the same name as well as the fact that neither has wished to change it. The film is a tragicomic portrait of a country whose cultural diversity, its peculiar history and the character of its inhabitants allow the existence of exceptional and remarkable persons that depict a live picture of Uruguay, with its plurality and contradictions, its small and large history, without departing a single moment from irony or reflection.
Original Music Composer
Un poderoso estudio de Hollywood ha comprado para su próxima película una histórica locomotora uruguaya del siglo XIX. Aunque la noticia es motivo de orgullo para muchos uruguayos, no es bien recibida por los veteranos miembros de la Asociación Amigos del Riel. Decididos a boicotear el traslado de la locomotora a Estados Unidos, tres de ellos y un niño, movidos por la consigna ""El patrimonio no se vende", secuestran la máquina y se lanzan a recorrer las abandonadas vías del interior del país perseguidos por las autoridades. Pero también encuentran la solidaridad de los pueblos que, aislados y abandonados por la falta de un medio de transporte que dejó de funcionar hace tiempo, ven en ellos una luz de esperanza.
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Armado en base a fotografía, películas de época, materiales de archivo y testimonios de sobrevivientes, familiares e historiadores, el documental reconstruye con precisión y exquisita sensibilidad el derrotero de los “anarquistas expropiadores” en el Río de la Plata y concretamente en el Montevideo del primer tercio del siglo XX. (FILMAFFINITY)
