Etiqueta: Fight against the System
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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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Killing Plato (El asesinato de Platón)
The struggle for democracy and equality clashes with the ambition of the tyrant. Athens, 4th century B.C. Altea, daughter of Perseus and one of Plato's most brilliant disciples, is the first woman to be admitted to the philosopher's academy as a student and, subsequently, as a teacher. Her life has broken with all the…
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HDP
When ambition knows no boundaries, and money is religion. HDP are the initials of Hugo David Prado, owner of Grupo Alfa, the largest business conglomerate in the country. As owner of more than one hundred companies, a bank and a television network, for this tycoon his religion is money. When a global pandemic hits…
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Clara Lyndon’s Silence (El silencio de Clara Lyndon) (Film)
Her talent allowed her to lead the life she wanted. A lover and a secret changed her destiny forever. Clara Lyndon is an elderly woman living in England who has just been released from the hospital. Luckily, her granddaughter Máire has been by her side through it all. During one of her episodes of confusion,…
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The Doctor (La doctora)
Together they will fight for their dream. A woman's struggle to practice her profession in the Spain of 1950. In the Spain of the 1950s, a first generation of women began to practice medicine. They were the pioneers in a territory still treasured by men and in which they were intruders. Inspired by the actual…
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Good Sisters (Buenas Hermanas)
The “perfect” March sisters hide a huge secret. Concord city is governed by an oppressive regime (much like in Orwell’s 1984). A society with steampunk aesthetics, with contemporary technology, and nineteenth-century habits. Of “Little Women”. In Concord everyone “must” be happy. Having the “good citizen” recognition promotes the protection of each individual by…
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Middle-aged Quinceañera
It’s never too late to make your dreams come true. Cecilia Ortega is 40 years old and has one dream: her daughter Cece must have the wonderful Quinceañera party that she never had. So she spends her monthly budget on packets of beans with the hope of finding one of the five crystal slipper charms…
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The defenses (Las defensas)
One case in three billion. One case in three billion. A novel based in the incredible true story of a doctor who suffered from the illness that he was investigating, and who was always sure of having received the wrong diagnosis. Gabi Martínez rebuilds the true story of doctor Escudero, a neurologist who suffered…
