Imagining Argentina (film)
Imagining Argentina is a 2003 film directed and written by Christopher Hampton. The movie was nominated for the "Golden Lion" award at the 2003 Venice Film Festival. The film is adapted from an award-winning novel of the same title by Lawrence Thornton.
Plot
The movie is set during the Dirty War in 1970s Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the military government is abducting those opposed to its rule. Cecilia, a dissident journalist, is kidnapped by the secret police to join the ranks of the 'disappeared'. Cecilia had earlier published a provocative article in her outrage over the disappearance of students protesting bus fares.
As her husband Carlos, a theatre director, begins to search frantically for her, he realizes that he has acquired psychic power that enables him to predict the future. This not only puts him in high demand by those who have also lost a loved one, it helps Carlos to foresee what happens to his wife and other detainees.
At one point, Carlos visits the Naval Mechanics School, the notorious torture centre.
The movie has graphic images of suffering such as the rape and torture scenes of Cecilia and her daughter Teresa.
The closing caption mentions that around 30,000 Argentines disappeared between 1976 and 1983.
Cast
In Order of Appearance:
- Eurydice - Irene Escolar
- Orfeo / Enrico - Fernando Tielve
- Pedro Agustin - Héctor Bordoni
- policeman 1 - Anthony Díaz Pérez
- policeman 2 - Luis Antonio Ramos
- Rubén Mendoza - Carlos Kaniowski
- Concepta Madrid - Stella Maris
- Octavio Marquez's grandmother - Concha Hidalgo
- Hannah Masson - Ana Garcia
- Victor Madrid - Horacio Obón
- Julia Obregon's mother - Amparo Valle
- Julia Obregon - Cielo Verano
- plaza mother 1 - Maria Nyddia Ursi
- plaza mother 2 - Elvira Villariño
- plaza mother 3 - Araceli Dvoskin
- plaza mother 4 - Susana Salerno
- plaza mother 5 - Anahí Martela
- Gustavo Santos - Kuno Becker
- Church mother 1 - Pochi Ducasse
- chirch mother 2 - Alicia Palmes
- church mother 3 - Liz Balut
- nun 1 - Teresa Mejias
- nun 2 - Carola Noriega
- Lieutenant - Dan Trugman
- general Guzmán - Anton Lesser
- tango dancer 1 - Vanesa Vélez
- tango dancer 2 - Andrés González
- Amos Sternberg - John Wood
- Sara Sternberg - Claire Bloom
- Sasha - Marzenka Novak
- Duarte - Ernesto Hernández
- Pereira - Eusebio Lázaro
- prisoner - Vera Czemerinski
- Marta - Sara Fernandez
- nurse - María Borrego
- prison guard 1 - Leo Azamor
- prisson guard 2 - Rubén Laperuta
- Guzmán's daughter - Mariana Seligman
- prince Prospero - Alejandro Rivas
- children theatre player 1 - Miguel Antón
- children theatre player 2 - Celia Arias
- children theatre player 3 - Ana Armas
- children theatre player 4 - Ana Paula Cidón
- children theatre player 5 - Paris Galindo
- children theatre player 6 - Marcos Garcìa Tizón
- children theatre player 7 - Javier García Villaraco
- children theatre player 8 - Yaiza Garzón
- children theatre player 9 - Tania Tamara González
- children theatre player 10 - Eva Gutiérrez
- children theatre player 11 - Yamila Teresa Haro
- children theatre player 12 - Verónica Andrea Jiménez
- children theatre player 13 - Adaia López
- children theatre player 14 - Jesús Nebreda
- children theatre player 15 - Beatriz Rastrollo
- children theatre player 16 - Ana Senso
- children theatre player 17 - David Velduque
- Avrom Sternberg - Toti Glusman
- señora Madrigal - Debora Kors
- girl 1 - Debora Cuenca
- girl 2 - Camila Walker
- girl 3 - Martina Sasso
- girl 4 - Camila Sasso
- girl 5 - Sofía Briano
- girl 6 - Noelia Escobonson
- girl 7 - Denise Aristimuño
- girl 8 - Florencia Quiroles
- girl 9 - Eliana González
- interrogation officer - Gonzalo San Martín
- Diego Souza - Alejandro Ares
- Ernesto Souza - Abian Vainstein
- stallholder - Héctor Malamud
Full cast by consulting Dutch FilmWorks [1]
References
- ^ Dutch FilmWorks B.V. [1](in Dutch)
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