Juan Diego Botto

Juan Diego Botto

Nascimento : 1975-08-29, Buenos Aires, Argentina

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Juan Diego Botto-Rota (born August 29, 1975, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine-Spanish actor. Botto's father disappeared during the Argentine Dirty War when Juan Diego was only two years old. With his mother and older sister María, also an actress, he moved to Madrid, Spain, where he currently resides. Botto started acting at the age of 5 in the film Juego de poder (Power Game). His role in the 1999 film Sobreviviré (I will survive), about a woman who falls in love with a man who, unknown to her, is homosexual, got him more national and international recognition. Botto has appeared on stage in Spain in several critically acclaimed plays. He also directed a play called Privilegio de ser perro (Privilege of Being a Dog), about the tough life immigrants are subjected to while trying to sneak into and live in a new country. Currently Botto lives in Madrid with his partner, the Spanish journalist and writer Olga Rodríguez. He is also active in politics, protesting the 2003 war in Iraq several times with fellow Spaniards and taking part in a support group for fellow children of the disappeared. Description above from the Wikipedia article Juan Diego Botto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Juan Diego Botto
Juan Diego Botto
Juan Diego Botto

Filmes

Staring at Strangers
Sergio O'Kane
Carpenter Sergio runs away and hides in a closet after his boss fired him. When the closet arrives at its buyer's house, he decides to stay there, hiding in his new home living with an unknown family.
Na Margem
Um dia na vida de Açucena, que está correndo contra o tempo para evitar que ela e sua família sejam despejadas; Rafael, um advogado que se propõe a reunir uma mãe com sua filha; e Teodora, uma velha doente que procura seu filho há muito perdido antes que seja tarde demais.
Na Margem
Screenplay
Um dia na vida de Açucena, que está correndo contra o tempo para evitar que ela e sua família sejam despejadas; Rafael, um advogado que se propõe a reunir uma mãe com sua filha; e Teodora, uma velha doente que procura seu filho há muito perdido antes que seja tarde demais.
Na Margem
Director
Um dia na vida de Açucena, que está correndo contra o tempo para evitar que ela e sua família sejam despejadas; Rafael, um advogado que se propõe a reunir uma mãe com sua filha; e Teodora, uma velha doente que procura seu filho há muito perdido antes que seja tarde demais.
O Esquadrão Suicida
Presidente General Silvio Luna
Os supervilões Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker e uma coleção de malucos condenados da prisão de Belle Reve juntam-se à super-secreta e super-obscura Força Tarefa X, enquanto são deixados na remota ilha de Corto Maltese para combater o inimigo.
The Europeans
Antonio
Spain at the end of the 50s. Miguel and Antonio, both single and in their early 30s, go on a trip to Ibiza, lured by the European sexual myth and the illusion of freedom. But on the island, nothing will be as they expected.
Rocambola
Saeta
Dante is a professional thief who makes ends meet through carefully selected, small jobs. His new target is a secluded big house which he thinks is unoccupied. But he's not alone, he will meet a strange couple whose reaction to his intrusion is to ask him for breakfast. They are hiding other plans.
A night with Juan Diego Botto
Cristina has been dreaming of sleeping with Juan Diego Botto for twenty years. He's been dreaming of a fairer world his whole life.
Los comensales
Though You May Not Know
Self
An account of the life and work of the Spanish poet Luis García Montero; a journey through his experiences, his mentors, his influences and his contact with other artists, both from the literary world and from other disciplines.
Hablar
An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running continuously over 80 minutes and half a kilometer, in Madrid's popular Lavapiés district. The characters talk, argue, laugh, cry, threaten, whisper, shout, steal, make dates, get angry with and hug one another, prompting the spectator to reflect on the immense power of words.
The Pirate
The epic true story of a humble Greek pirate, from his rise as a caviar tycoon and friendship with Catherine the Great to his destiny as a war hero.
The Ignorance of Blood
Falcón
Javier Falcón, Chief of the Sevilla Homicide Division, must solve two different cases in a short time. In the first case he is personally involved. An old friend of his infiltrated an Islamic terrorist cell and now the group is trying to recruit his young son for their cause. The same case hits even closer at home. A war is raging between two clans in the Russian Mafia. When an important mobster tries to defect, he gets killed in a car crash. On the scene, the police find an encrypted USB stick with highly explosive information. Then the son of Falcon’s girlfriend Consuelo is kidnapped. They are contacted by both Mafia clans claiming they have the kid and wanting to get their hands on the information. And both say they will kill him if Falcon doesn’t give them the stick
Asier ETA biok
Self
Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. But one day he disappeared, later I found out he had joined ETA.
Ismael
Luis
An 8-year-old boy tracks down his father.
Franco's Settlers
Explores Llanos del Caudillo, a town from La Mancha founded in 1955 by the dictator Franco; a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the cruel heritage of their past. A reflection on what to do with the Francoist legacy in towns, streets and squares in Spain.
Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent
This documentary looks at the life of Jordi Dauder through an interview with the actor a few weeks before his death. From her interventions and people who knew him, the play explores the experiences of actor, from his artistic side as from his political convictions and life.
God Loves Caviar
Lefentarios
The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the head of one of the largest mercantile empires in Europe.
Jogos Infantis
Daniel
Daniel recebe a inesperada, e indesejada, visita um amigo que não vê desde a sua infância. O amigo está obcecado pela sua filha e insiste para que Daniel a conheça. Daniel faz o possível para se livrar dele e tentar esquecer o incidente. Nessa mesma noite o seu amigo suicida-se. Laura, esposa de Daniel, sugere que vão ao funeral de seu amigo. Lá, eles conhecem a sua filha, uma menina, com quase sete anos, que desde a morte de seu pai viveu num orfanato. Laura convence todos que a melhor coisa é a menina ir viver com eles. Mas a presença da menina na casa começa a ter um efeito adverso sobre o casal quando os medos e lembranças que Daniel pensou ter enterradas há muito tempo, rastejam de volta para dentro da sua cabeça. As mesmas obsessões e medos que tiraram a vida ao seu amigo começam a tomar controle de Daniel. A crescente sensação de isolamento envolve Daniel na casa, que até a chegada da menina, pensava que lhe pertencia.
Frozen Silence
Arturo Andrade
Russian front, winter 1943. Soldier Arturo Andrade and Sergeant Fernando Espinosa are commissioned to investigate a mysterious murder while the Spanish Blue Division of the German Army endures the fierce counterattack of the Red Army.
The Mexican Suitcase
Himself
The story of the recovery of the negatives of thousands of photos taken by three photographers during the Spanish Civil War that were found seventy years later in a suitcase, inside a closet in Mexico City.
Tudo Que Quiseres
Leo e Alicia são casados e moram com a filha Dafne, de quatro anos. Como numa família tradicional, a mãe preocupa-se em cuidar da filha e educá-la, enquanto o pai vive fora de casa, trabalhando. Contudo, a morte repentina de Alicia abala radicalmente esse equilíbrio familiar. Sentindo falta da figura materna, a menina tem grandes dificuldades de superar a perda. Tentando atender como pode as demandas da filha, Leo chega ao ponto de renunciar a si próprio, colocando em jogo sua própria identidade.
Viúvas sempre às quintas
Gustavo
Baseado no livro de Claudia Piñeiro, o filme conta a história de uma mulher que encontra seu marido e seus dois amigos mortos em casa misteriosamente.
The Anarchist's Wife
Justo
"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.
Cidade do Silêncio
Marco Antonio Salamanca
Lauren, uma jornalista ambiciosa de Chicago, é enviada para cobrir os estupros seguidos de morte que vêm ocorrendo na fronteira entre os EUA e o México. Chegando lá, com a ajuda de um jornalista local, descobre que esses crimes são apenas a ponta do iceberg de uma trama muito mais complexa do que se poderia imaginar envolvendo politícos e grandes empresários locais. Uma história real que chocou a América, finalmente numa surpreendente visão cinematográfica.
El Greco
Niño de Guevara
The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
Va a ser que nadie es perfecto
Vete de mí
Guillermo
O Ditador
Amadito García Guerrero
Urania Cabral é uma advogada de Manhattan que retorna à República Dominicana, depois de 30 anos. Em busca do passado, ela se reencontra com o pai, um homem que um dia foi o Presidente do Senado e o braço direito do ditador Ramfis Trujillo.
Obaba
Miguel
Um drama rural situado em Obaba, uma região mítica, no norte da Espanha, onde um jovem cineasta se esforçou para capturar a sensação da área, que por sua vez leva a uma riqueza de auto-descoberta.
Manolito Espinberg: une vie de cinéma
Self
¡Hay motivo!
Director
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media.
Roma
Manuel Cueto/ Joaco
Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.
Augustus - O Primeiro Imperador
Iullus Antonius
César foi assassinado... Quem o sucederá? Em Tróia, Peter OToole faz o papel de Priamo, o Rei de Tróia, que apesar de ser o maior inimigo do invencível Aquiles (Brad Pitt) é também o único Rei que Aquiles admira! Em Augustus, Peter OToole consegue ser ainda mais carismático do que é em Tróia e prova ser um dos mais completos atores de todos os tempos! Brutus, Marco Antonio, Cléopatra e Augustus fazem parte do contexto de guerras e tramas que rodeiam o poder e são magnificamente espelhados neste surpreendente épico. Augustus, o Primeiro Imperador é uma história envolvente, emocionante e que mostra de forma fascinante como todos os épicos começaram!
Los abajo firmantes
Jorge
The first actor of a theater company on tour in Spain dies in a car accident. A new actor, Jorge Ruiz, is to relieve you. He's handsome, young and revolutionary. His arrival creates tension, jealousy and distrust in the rest of the cast, is-especially in Mario Soto, which is responsible to lead in the absence of the author of the assembly, busy with an opera for the Teatro Real in Madrid . Already in the first trial of the work concerned the "Play Without a Title" by Federico Garcia Lorca, their personalities collide head. Morante Carmen, leading actress of the company, and Laura G. Reyna, which was secret lover of the deceased, witness the struggle between the two. As if that were not enough, the newcomer brings added conflict: reading at the end of the function of a manifesto for peace. Mario questioned that decision and the company is divided.
Los abajo firmantes
Writer
The first actor of a theater company on tour in Spain dies in a car accident. A new actor, Jorge Ruiz, is to relieve you. He's handsome, young and revolutionary. His arrival creates tension, jealousy and distrust in the rest of the cast, is-especially in Mario Soto, which is responsible to lead in the absence of the author of the assembly, busy with an opera for the Teatro Real in Madrid . Already in the first trial of the work concerned the "Play Without a Title" by Federico Garcia Lorca, their personalities collide head. Morante Carmen, leading actress of the company, and Laura G. Reyna, which was secret lover of the deceased, witness the struggle between the two. As if that were not enough, the newcomer brings added conflict: reading at the end of the function of a manifesto for peace. Mario questioned that decision and the company is divided.
13 Curses
Jacobo
Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father eighteen years ago, begin to persecute to him, since his father died by shot gun, peculiarly, when thirteen peals sounded in the cathedral, fact what obsesses to Jacobo. After watching several times, Mateo convinces his son to make the work for the cathedral that his father couldn't finish in life, but what begins as a simple work becomes a madness spiral when Jacobo discovers the true intentions of the ghost of his father: to kill to his son to usurp his body to finish the statue, and after to return to the life.
Guerrilha Sem Face
Sucre
A perseguição e captura de Abimael Guzman, líder do exército de guerrilheiros peruanos Sendero Luminoso, que durante 12 anos viveu na clandestinidade. Para contar essa história acompanhamos ascensão de Agustin Rejas (Javier Bardem, indicado ao Oscar® de Melhor Ator por "Antes do Anoitecer"), um ex-advogado que se torna o respeitado capitão da policia antiterrorista de um país governado pela corrupção e pelo desmando. Rejas assiste ao inicio de uma revolução silenciosa, que mais tarde torna-se furiosa. Enquanto o país mergulha no caos, a chama da paixão volta a queimar o coração do policial quando ele se aproxima de Yolanda (Laura Morante), a bela professora de balé de sua filha.
El balancín de Iván
Roberto
Ana is a woman of thirty-something, goes back to the house where she spent of her childhood during the Argentine dictatorship.
Resistência
Manuel
Espanha, 1944. Lucía regressa à sua casa na aldeia rural e reencontra Manuel, um membro da resistência local contra Franco. Apesar dos riscos, ela se envolve cada vez mais com ele. Quando a Guarda Civil de Franco persegue Manuel, eles fogem para as montanhas.
Asfalto
Three young and desperate inhabitants of Madrid attempt to rise above their circumstances by any means available to them in that sun-drenched city. This tight-knit trio must scramble when their hasty plans become derailed by a demanding matriarch, an abusive older brother, and the entire corrupt underclass with which they deal.
Ave María
Miguel
In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
I Will Survive
Iñaqui
Marga is having a streak of bad luck. Through her friendship with Rosa, she tries to regain her self-confidence, but love interests again create conflict. It is while developing a relationship with a handsome gay sculptor ten years her junior: Iñaqui, that she starts to improve. However, Marga and Iñaqui go beyond friendship, but are frustrated by their limitations. Ultimately, the two may have to settle for an "impossible" love relationship, as their unique best road to happiness
Novios
Arturito
Arturo , a successful restaurateur, having an affair with his assistant Cristal, tells her that he will reveal the extent of their relationship to his wife Paz. Not long after Cristal starts dreaming of life as a housewife, their plans fall through. In revenge, Cristal focuses on Arturo's son, Arturito. She will endeavor to make Arturito her bridegroom at Arturo's expense, in all senses.
Plenilune
Asesino
Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade in a small town in Spain, murdering young girls and leaving their bodies in a nearby forest.
In Praise of Older Women
Andrés
In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.
Martin (Hache)
Hache
An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son (Juan Diego Botto) tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín (Federico Luppi) brings the troubled teen to live with him in Spain. But though Martín tries to reach out to his son, he's unable to bond with anyone in his life -- including his much-younger girlfriend
Not Love, Just Frenzy
Carlos
From the land of Almodovar comes a hot new film about drugs, sex & everything else!
La Celestina
Calisto
The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows about her tricks.
La sal de la vida
Charly
The film tells in a funny way the ups and downs of a widower who would like to marry again. But his choice to take a young woman as the bride does not conform with what his three daughters want as stepmother. Naturally this will cause all kinds of irritation and problems
Stories from the Kronen
Carlos
Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.
1492: Cristóvão Colombo
Diego
Cristóvão Colombo sonhava atingir a Índia por mar através de uma rota pelo Ocidente. Após ser recusado pelo rei de Portugal, que tinha os seus próprios planos, é contratado pelos reis de Espanha e, em 1492, parte de Cádis com três navios rumo à viagem de uma vida. Em vez da Índia, descobriria algo muito mais impressionante: um novo mundo.
How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
Sergio
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age. She can be feisty and edgy, which sometimes gets in the way of what would make her happy. And she regularly threatens to leave Antonio. Will she, and on what terms? What will he do?
Ovejas negras
Adolfo, niño
Adolfo reunites with his old teacher, Father Benito, to confess him the crimes he committed when he was a young boy just to save the soul of the people he loved.
Zorro A Lenda Continua
Na velha Califórnia espanhola reina a injustiça e a corrupção. Mas um herói mascarado irá aparecer para acabar com a tirania dos colonizadores espanhóis. Ele é Zorro, o vingador mascarado que na vida comum é um inofensivo nobre.
If They Tell You I Fell
Sarnita
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
El río de oro
Miguel
During a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country house is altered with the arrival of the children's uncle, a character who exerts a curious influence on the boys and a morbid and strange attraction the wife. Twelve years after 'Los viajes escolares' (1973), his first commercial feature film, the Madrid director Jaime Chávarri returns to the same estate in the province of Segovia to shoot a new family story, about his own plot and script. Like its predecessor, 'The Golden River' contains a strong autobiographical charge and is full of personal resonances. But this new history of family ties is narrated from a perspective in which adultery manifests itself openly. Endowed with a slow narrative rhythm, the film presents an international cast headed by Ángela Molina, Bruno Ganz, Francesca Annis and Stefan Gubser. The film also has the presence of a very young Juan Diego Botto, in one of his first appearances on the big screen.
Berta's Motives
The life of a young girl who plays with little animals and insects is suddenly changed with the arrival of a film crew and a strange man.
Power Game
Ni te cases ni te embarques
Niño