Etiqueta: Exile
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The Psychodrome (Psicódromo)
He lost everything he had, including his identity, only to find it again on the street. Eliseo Fainzilber is a retired psychoanalyst who becomes homeless after his wife Martina kicks him out of the house. Eliseo was deeply dependent on Martina in every aspect of his life: he lived in her house and…
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155, Simon Radowitzky
A fierce struggle for ideals. Simón Radowitzky, a young Ukrainian anarchist, fled in 1908 from Russian repression to take refuge in Argentina. Soon after settling in, Simón assassinated the bloodthirsty Buenos Aires police chief responsible for the massacre of workers known as “La Semana Roja” (Red Week). He served a sentence of 21 years…
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The Lovers Under the Danube (Los amantes bajo el Danubio)
Is there any motive more powerful than love or hate? Budapest, 1944. The war and the Nazi occupation has brought absolute and utter chaos to the European city. Hardship, anguish and persecution reach the lives of Bora, Marga, Andris and Hanna, inhabitants of the city and witnesses of atrocious events. Bora and Hanna…
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Aramburu
The crime that divided a country. The origin of Montoneros 29th May 1970, Buenos Aires, plain daylight. A group of men in their twenties dressed in army uniforms show up at the house of the Argentinian President, Mr. Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. One of them, Fernando Abal Medina, tells the President: “General, you are coming with…
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The dressmaker’s son (El hijo de la costurera)
The story of the one and only “couturier”: Balenciaga. . Balenciaga grew up in the Basque Country, at the beginning of 20th century. He was very close to his mother, Martina, recognized dressmaker among the upper classes. The Marchioness of Casa Torres, one of his mother’s main clients, noticed the child had talent when he…
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The Children of Morelia (Los niños de Morelia) – TV Series Original Project
During the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Republic accepted the offer of the Mexican authorities to take in a big number of children to take them away from the horrors of war. This is how Antonia, a Spanish school teacher who saw her students die in a bombing by the Nationalist faction,…
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Black King (Rey Negro)
The indigent king. Rey negro (Black King) is based on a true story that took place in 1995: the exile of King Kigali V of Rwanda to avoid his assassination, and his following bitter adventures in Western society. Kigali, dethroned and thrown into poverty, does not stop behaving with the dignity that corresponds to a…
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Shooting Up The Sky (El cielo a tiros)
The children of drug cartels were the real victims. After twelve years without setting foot on his country, Larry goes back to Colombia, for they have found his father’s body in a common grave. His childhood friend, Pedro, picks him up at the airport and takes him directly to the Alborada celebration, a popular festival…
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The Ones in Saint Patrick’s Batallion (Los del San Patricio)
The story of the men whose morality made them move to the opponent side. The real story of John Riley and his colleagues, the irishmen who fought in 1846 within the side of the Americans during the Mexican-American War. They, who had escaped from hunger and the oppression in Ireland, could not remain submissive in…
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Bad Leaf (Mala Hoja)
An introspective look of 19th century Cuba. In February 1874, two Spanish businessmen, a tobacco grower and a sugar farmer, meet at a restaurant in Havana, where they start a conversation while they smoke a cigar. On that dialogue, both characters tell why they abandoned Spain and how they managed to make…
