Tennyson Ferrada
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: September 05, 1930
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 27, 1999
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Macías, ensayo general sobre el poder y la gloria
Overview: Video that records the play "Macías, general essay on power and glory" by Sergio Marras. Monologue in which an actor face the audience to give life to the role of Macías, a dictator of an imaginary country but who suffers from the “misunderstanding” of his detractors and enemies. A text full of profound observations about the despotic use of power. This video participated in the Fifth Franco-Chilean Video Art Meeting, Santiago de Chile, November 1985. U-matic Project
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-11-08
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Angelito
Overview: A maid loses all her jobs because her son cries at night, and that bothers her bosses. The play portrays the wandering and desperation of the protagonist to get a job, which ends in her failed attempts due to the "Angelito".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-08-03
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Los deseos concebidos
Overview: Erre, a teenager that lives with his uncle, his aunt and an almost absent sister, is erased from the roster on his school. From then on, he just wanders in places where the strange is barely hidden under an imitation of the ordinary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-11-03
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No tan lejos de Andrómeda
Overview: After a long period ofexile, Félix and Magui return to their country. Magui's fathers take them to one of the houses of the family. Félix resistance to adapt himself to the social reality of the country and the presence of "aliens" on the region start to trouble the chief of the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-08-05
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The House We Live In
Overview: A portrait of a Chilean middle-class family in the 1940s and 1970s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-07-20
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Enough Praying
Overview: Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of the poor. Such priests, usually adherents of "liberation theology," are called "worker-priests." This Chilean film tells the story of how one man became a "worker-priest" and won the trust of the poor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-08-28
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Julio Begins in July
Overview: This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-04-30
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Hasta en las mejores familias
Overview: Dramatic comedy that raise questions through satire about the moral tradition of Chilean society, its dogmatism and sexual intolerance and the repressive nature of the country's traditional family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-10-27
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The Witnesses
Overview: This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obtain title to the miniscule plots of land their houses stand on. In fact, he has been swindling them and does not even own the land he has been "selling." One of the aggrieved slum dwellers confronts him about this while he is visiting the slum, and the real estate agent shoots him before everyone's eyes. The question confronting these witnesses is whether testifying against this monster will make their lives even more precarious.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-06-21
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Eloy
Overview: The film is about Eloy, a Chilean bandit and companion of Joaquín Murieta, who is wanted by the justice system on the border with Argentina. Although an escape seems impossible, in desperation he flees without a fixed destination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-02-13
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Amelia Lópes O'Neill
Overview: A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-02-05
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Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde
Overview: In the seas of southern Chile, where the known world ends, in dangerous waters and ghost ports, a space where everything is possible, a group of sailors dare still to dream in mysteries and enchantments...
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Frontier
Overview: A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose father asks him to take her away. Although he gets his freedom he doesn't leave and when the water rises, Maite and her father die, and Ramiro flees to the hills.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-10-25
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Cuestión de ubicación
Overview: A family obsessed with their recent acquisition of a huge color television, postpones the health of one of their daughters. While they worry about locating the device in their tiny home, the daughter's condition worsens and the attention of her illness is delayed until the end of the TV payment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-05-08
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Consuelo
Overview: A Chilean exile leaves his Swedish partner to return to Chile. There he meets his old love, Consuelo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Los náufragos
Overview: After 20 years of exile, Aron returns to Chile to find out who he is. He asks questions, not only of those who stayed behind but also of himself, examining his relationship with his past and his own memory. The people who stayed lived through 20 years of dictatorship. They were either victims or executioners. Amidst this wreckage, Aron wonders what name his brother is using now, where his father is... Can he, in Isol's arms and through her love, find his way again ? What future awaits him? Like Mola the torturer, he has returned from an impossible journey, and Aron knows that each man is his own executioner. Shipwreck and resurrection are the two facets of a complex truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Coronation
Overview: The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-04-27
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Tierra quemada
Overview: The story, set at the end of the 19th century, revolves around the rivalry between two families of ancient peasant lineage, the Valladares and the evil Vilches who, out of greed and sentimental revenge, try to dispossess the true owners of their land. The Valladares defend theirs, ending the conflict with a melee between the two main rivals. There are duels, fires, chases, kidnappings, betrayals and deaths. There is also a romantic note, the costumbrista landscape, the laughable moment and the folk songs.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-08-26
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