Alfredo Alcón
Nascimento : 1930-03-03, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Morte : 2014-04-11
História
Alfredo Félix Alcón was an Argentine theatre and film actor born in Buenos Aires. Widely regarded as one of the best and most important Argentine actors of the 20th century.
He worked in more than 50 movies since his first one and received many recognitions for his work: among others, the Silver Condor, the Martin Fierro Award and the 1981 Diamond Konex Award.
Himself
Aos 42 anos Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darín) está em crise, pois assumiu muitas responsabilidades e não tem mais tempo para qualquer tipo de diversão. Boa parte de seu tempo é gasto no gerenciamento do restaurante fundado por seu pai, no qual até tem um relativo sucesso, mas sem nunca conseguir escapar da sombra de seu pai. Rafael raramente visita sua mãe, Norma (Norma Aleandro), que está perdendo a memória, pois ela sempre implica com suas acompanhantes. Sua ex-esposa o acusa de não dar a devida atenção ao filho e ainda há Naty (Natalia Verbeke), atual namorada de Rafael, que sempre lhe exige atenção e comprometimento. Em meio a todas estas responsabilidades Rafael sofre um ataque cardíaco, que faz com que se encontre novamente com Juan Carlos (Eduardo Blanco), um amigo de infância, que o ajuda a reconstruir seu passado e ver o presente com outros olhos.
Giancarlo Rosi quer ser deputado, mas a situação pela qual sua família está passando não o ajuda. O pai se veste de mulher e sua filha participa de filmes pornográficos. Elias Cohen, um editor de multimídia, investiga a vida privada do candidato e obtém evidências escandalosas.
Julio Cortazar (voice)
A portrait which explores the legacy and impact of novelist Julio Cortazar's art, perceptively examining it within the context of shifting tides of Argentine culture and politics. The author reads his own texts in this poetic documentary.
Narrator
Leonor, a widow in a small South American town, gives birth to Charlotte, a dwarf. The mother not only provides a rich childhood for her daughter, she erases any clues her daughter might see that would lead her to think she is different (mother burns books such as "Snow White" and destroys lawn statues of gnomes). In short, she doesn't want to talk about it. The mother succeeds in creating a modern-day Rapunzel: Charlotte becomes an accomplished young woman who captures the heart of Ludovico. But then, the circus comes to town.
Self
The history of the Teatro Abierto, which was initiated on July 28, 1981 as a cultural reaction against the last Argentine civic-military dictatorship, and organized by a group of artists and workers from the theater world
An authoritarian rancher about to die and his children live in a dingy mansion and fight each other over inheritance in a game of degradation.
In 1965, a man named Matías is taken to a psychiatric hospital, after being found at the streets, "in the company of homosexuals and in a state of intoxication by alcohol and drugs". His documentation says he's 41 years old and born in Poland. He says his mother was an aristocrat. His arrival will have a profound impact on the institution and, especially, on one of the doctors.
It's about three women, three stories, or perhaps a single story in different projections of time and space. The Mistress wishes to unravel the meaning of being a woman is the victim of Hollywood. Ana is the product of a society ruled or dominated by men.
In this modern retelling of the Faust legend, a freelance photographer meets the enigmatic Mefi, who leads him, through a hole in the wall, to a room where a disembodied voice predicts stock prices.
Don Agustín Rojas
Spain 1640, the reverend superior nun Mariana, attends the death of her younger sister, Isabel's husband, who is overcome with hopelessness and heartache. Isabel then kisses and caresses the cadaver's exposed body as if he were still alive. Mother Mariana
A girl falls in love with the son of a rancher, who gives her certain illusions about their relationship.
Alejandro
An award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life.
The Powerful
Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon but this doesn't occur to him. When he's older, he meets the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he turns his back on his newfound love, but if he refuses, he'll become a wolf.
Roberto Gordillo, El Pibe Cabeza
The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", an authentic Argentine gangster in the '30.
Juan Carlos
The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.
Erdosain
After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack.
Luciano
A thinly disguised account of the story of the Galiffi mafia family of Rosario, Argentina, their decadent loves and brutal crimes.
General Martín Miguel de Güemes
The story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century.
Gen. José de San Martín
The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.
Martín Fierro
The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.
A young writer wants to make a different cinema and a director presents a plot divided into 3 episodes.
Orestes Morales
When a gangster is murdered, the victim's daughter sets out to track down her father's killer. She soon suspects her friend and her own mother may have been involved in the murder plot, in this heavy-handed and tragic crime drama.
Diego Correa
A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital.
Pedro
After marrying a rich heiress, a young man from humble origins is dedicated to looking for coal in the surroundings of Gijón.
Guido Santrori
Um empregado do banco muda radicalmente a sua vida após a trágica morte da sua mulher num acidente de carro juntamente com um industrial viúvo.
Returning from Switzerland, a young investigator meets María, his father's new wife. They immediately feel an irresistible attraction, which he tries to overcome by mixing it up with another woman.
Martín Sánchez
A man and a woman fall in love in the streets of a nocturnal Buenos Aires.
Martín
Uma jovem aceita fingir que está apaixonada por um rapaz condenado por uma doença mortal, para lhe suavizar o fim da vida. Em troca, tem a promessa de uma luxuosa estadia de um ano em Paris. Mas, no desenlace, há uma surpresa.
Narrador
The images connect the workings of a slaughterhouse with a city that is also divided between executioners and dead people.
Ecuménico López
The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
Horacio
An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.
A social drama centered on the miserable conditions experencied by cane cutters in Argentina's north.
Aníbal Soler
A prostitute persecuted by the police, receives the interested protection of a greedy merchant. He takes refuge in his house one night and meets his nephew, a sensitive boy who wants to be a musician.
In colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite.
Freddy / Pedro Cáceres
A store clerk lives in the furniture section without anyone noticing.
Three-episode film linked to each other by means of a medallion, where love is the engine that drives people to act the way they did.