Released Date:
1989-10-06
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (1420 Reviews)
Director:
Luis PuenzoCarlos Fuentes (novel)
Aèda Bortnik (screenplay)
Luis Puenzo (screenplay)
When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen. Arroyo and meets Harriet. Bierce is a famous writer, who knowing that he is dying, wishes to keep his identity secret so he can determine his own fate. Though he likes Arroyo, Bierce tries to provoke the General's anger whenever possible in an attempt to get himself killed, thus avoiding suffering through his illness. Winslow is intrigued by both Bierce and Arroyo, and the men are in turn attracted to her. She becomes romantically involved with Arroyo. When Winslow learns of Bierce's true identity (a writer whose work she has loved and respected for years), she is singlemindedly determined to fulfill his dying wish.
Released Date:
2001-05-24
Languages:
Spanish
Countries:
Spain, Argentina
Runtime:
117 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (607 Reviews)
Director:
Eduardo MignognaJorge Goldenberg
Graciela Maglie
Eduardo Mignogna (novel)
Eduardo Mignogna (screenplay)
In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.
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