China Zorrilla
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Biography: China Zorrilla (born Concepción Matilde Zorrilla de San Martín Muñoz; Montevideo, 14 March 1922 –Montevideo, 17 September 2014) was an emblematic Uruguayan theater, film, and television actress, also director, producer and writer. An immensely popular star in the Rioplatense area is often regarded as a Grand Dame of the South American theater stage. After a long career in the Uruguayan theater, Zorrilla made over 50 appearances in Argentina's film, theater and TV. Her distinguished career took off in Uruguay in the 50-60s, later she settled in Argentina where she lived for over 35 years and was popular on TV, theater, and cinema. At 90, she retired and went back to Uruguay where she died in 2014. In 2008, Zorrilla was invested Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and in 2011, the Correo Uruguayo (the national postal service in Uruguay) released a print run of 500 commemorative postage stamps dedicated to her.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montevideo - Uruguay
Birthday: March 14, 1922
Deathday: September 17, 2014
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Gender: Female
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Elsa & Fred
Overview: When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-07-28
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Waiting for the Hearse
Overview: Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-05-06
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Conversations with Mother
Overview: Jaime has lost his job and has to provide for his wife, son and daughter. Pressured by this circumstances, he visits his mom, who lives in an apartment he owns, to ask her to move with him so he can sell the apartment. But she is not going to cooperate. And, to Jaime's surprise, she also has a boyfriend!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-04-15
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Nobody's Wife
Overview: It is the story of Eleanor, a good housewife who lives with her husband, Fernando, and their two children. Deeply loves her husband and does not question the reciprocity of love and fidelity. One day, circumstantially, discovers her husband is cheating. Leonor emotionally feels betrayed and realizes that his world, based on a lie, has collapsed like a house of cards. With more fear than conviction, leaving the house, leaving little signs with instructions for their march and trust their children to the care of her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Pubis angelical
Overview: It's about three women, three stories, or perhaps a single story in different projections of time and space. The Mistress wishes to unravel the meaning of being a woman is the victim of Hollywood. Ana is the product of a society ruled or dominated by men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-08-12
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Contar hasta diez
Overview: Argentina's turbulent political history is an uncredited but clearly present protagonist in this rather slow-paced story about Ramon (Oscar Martinez) and his search for his brother Pedro in the capital city of Buenos Aires. Pedro has disappeared at a time of upheaval, after a military junta takes over Argentina in 1976, killing thousands of leftists and dissidents. Unlike many others, Ramon's father has political ties that matter, but that may not change Pedro's fate, which could be death -- or like some who have been tortured, worse than death. This film was nominated for a Golden Bear award at the 1985 Berlin Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-05-02
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Darse cuenta
Overview: The relationship between a doctor and a depressed young patient in a public hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-08-30
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Besos en la frente
Overview: Mercedes, a lady of eighty, widow and with fear of loneliness falls in love Sebastian, a writer sixty years less than her. Mercedes will feel trapped in that body wrinkled and slow that it allows she to live that love as it should be lived.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-09-05
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Touch the Sky
Overview: A family divided between two continents put their differences aside when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-08-02
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Tres de corazones
Overview: Angel decides to return to his hometown. In an inn on the route meets Dora, and they engage in conversation, but their relationship did not end there. Once installed in the same city, Angel gets a job as a taxi driver will take you to reconnect with Dora. The attraction they both feel continues, even though Angel discovers that Dora is the wife of his boss, a former police officer made in the street, given to sudden outbursts of violence. .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-04-26
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The Mafia
Overview: The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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God Raises Them
Overview: Angel lives with his mother and has homosexual inclinations. One day he meets Mirna, a prostitute who has a son. The three try to form a strange family.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-06-20
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Summer of the Colt
Overview: This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, breaks and train his first horse; their 13-year-old sister, Laura, struggles with the transition between childhood and growing up. The kids find it difficult to adapt to their proud and stubborn grandfather, and he learns that he has to change his ways and try to understand them as they all experience the joys and sorrows of growing up and growing old. ~ Alice Duncan, Rovi
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-31
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Last Days of the Victim
Overview: Mendizábal, a hit man, its ordered by his anonymous clients to murder a man. But in the precise and obsessive persecution, he will discover that he is only part of a game that doesn't belong to him, a web at the service of greater interests.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-04-08
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Blood Pacific
Overview: Jorge is an old artist, actor and director, who says he wants to direct a film about the Latin American wars of independence. Charito is a young woman who comes from the Peruvian jungle to work as a maid in Buenos Aires. The unconscious of the protagonists bursts in the form of dreams, visions and fantasies amid horses, fencing sessions, fragments of lost films and anthropological videos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-11-12
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Ship of Fools
Overview: In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts to defend himself. Locked up, he waits for the arrival of "Caleuche," the Ship (Nave) of Fools (de los locos), a mythical figure of his ancestral strength which "made" him start the fire. An appointed lawyer (a white woman) comes to the chief's defence, alleging the chief had acted in self-defense as the white man was building commercial structures on the sacred burial grounds of his ancestors, and continued doing so even after heated protests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-04-13
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Nunca estuve en Viena
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-04-13
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Mercedes
Overview: Mercedes is a woman who has 212 years. She is also an unusual biological phenomenon in the human race, the only living witness of the entire history of Argentina.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-05-25
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Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
Overview: When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-08-23
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Poor Butterfly
Overview: A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-06-02
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Un guapo del 900
Overview: The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-09-30
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Heroína
Overview: A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-29
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Las sorpresas
Overview: "The Surprises" is an episode film. In the episode Five Years of Life an unknown man and woman spend a night locked in a subway station. In Corazonada, a domestic employee takes revenge on her employer by making her son fall in love and in The Wells there is a love triangle in which the deceived husband is blind.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-04
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La Invitación
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-09-30
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Triangle of Four
Overview: In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-04-10
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Warriors and Prisoners
Overview: Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-05
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Lola Mora
Overview: The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-11
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The Truce
Overview: A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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Cuatro caras para Victoria
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-10-27
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Jewish Gauchos
Overview: The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-05-22
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