Alejandro Awada
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Biography: Alejandro Awada is an Argentine actor recognized for his work across film, theatre, and television. He's had notable roles in Historia de un clan (2015), The Aura (2005), Gone Fishing (2012), El marginal (2016), The Secretary (2020) and Yosi, the Regretful Spy (2022). He's the son of Abraham Awada, a Lebanese immigrant businessman, founder of the Awada clothing brand. He has four siblings, one of which is former First Lady Juliana Awada.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Adult: No
Birthday: December 07, 1951
Age: 73 years old
Gender: Male
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Whisky Romeo Zulú
Overview: Whisky Romeo Zulu tells the story prior to the crash of LAPA Boeing 737 that on August 31, 1999, caught fire after hitting an embankment in the center of Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. The disaster changed the history of civil and commercial aviation in Argentina, and the film recounts, from the standpoint of the director, a former airline pilot-how in some countries the safety of the flight is incredibly precarious.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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Cuando yo te vuelva a ver
Overview: Thirty years after living in Spain, Paco returns to Argentina to sponsor the wedding of a friend. Retired and separated from his Spanish wife, he is reunited with his affections. As always, in the last thirty years, Margarita, and retired as a teacher, life creeps forward. In the wedding party, best man and Paco Margarita like in charge of catering, intersect again but not found, until he discovers a video of the party. Love truncated by the absence and her refusal to answer his letters, reborn in a search for lost time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-05-16
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The Aura
Overview: A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps…
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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The Hairy Tooth Fairy
Overview: Lucía, an active little girl, looses a tooth. Santiago, her father, is an out-of-work boss, and her mother, Pilar, is a successful but overworked architect, reassure Lucía, by telling her that the Hairy Tooth Fairy (a mouse named Pérez) will come to her bedroom to collect her tooth, leaving some money in its place. A mouse who had been monitoring the situation tells another mouse, who in turn tells another mouse until finally the news reaches Pérez, The Hairy Tooth Fairy, who lives in a boat in the port along with hundreds of other mice. They receive the teeth that he collects, and then clean, shape and polish them so that they can be transformed into shiny round pearls. These pearls are then carried through the citys sewers until finally they reach the jewellers owned by Morientes, where an old friend exchanges them for their weight in gold.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-06-30
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Norma
Overview: A woman finds new meaning in her life after her housekeeper quits her job.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-10-19
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Tesoro mío
Overview: Soon to turn 40, Carlos is a humble bank clerk who feels that his life is a monotonous waste of time. When Carlos begins to feel condemned forever to a life of quiet despair, he is presented with an opportunity to rip off a bank.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-08-03
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Buenos Aires plateada
Overview: A television director seeks the support of two old guerrilla comrades, now incorporated, like him, into the squad to broadcast the pilot program of a television series based on his own story, but they, who occupy important positions in the media of communication and the government now has other commitments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-10-05
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Tiger Head
Overview: After the May Revolution, Juan José Castelli has instructions to order the execution of ex-viceroy Santiago de Liniers. That put you at a crossroads with respect to your convictions.
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-05-31
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The Escape
Overview: 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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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-05-24
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Dangerous Obsession
Overview: An Argentine truck driver is on a routine trip through Rio de Janeiro when he meets a mysterious countryman. They travel back to Argentina together, meeting a beautiful Brazilian journalist on the way. The truck driver has revenge on his mind, and both the adventurous young man, and the gorgeous girl join him in this venture. The only thing the three have in common are their obsession for honor and justice.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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Dibu 3
Overview: Facing an imminent attack from Mars, planet Earth sends Dibu to Mars as a peace ambassador -- the only hope for averting the attack. Amazingly, he finds a friendly population, whose only issue is that they are fed up of their planet being used as a nuclear dump site. Besides averting the Martian attack, Dibu also inadvertently manages the save hit planet from the diabolical designs of an ambitious general
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-07-18
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Gone Fishing
Overview: A recovering alcoholic travels to the untamed coast of Patagonia to reconnect with his estranged daughter in this gentle yet deeply resonant drama from Argentine writer-director Carlos Sorin.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Verdades verdaderas, la vida de Estela
Overview: In 1976, a coup d'etat by the Armed Forces replaced the argentine constitutional Government and policies of terror that trampled on human rights were implemented. In a few years, the hidden and silent violence of these policies spiraled and 30,000 citizens of different ages and social conditions were murdered. They were wrongly called the disappeared and, among them, there were young children or unborn young who were delivered in prisons of the military dictatorship and whose kidnappers abducted and registered as their own children. This movie tells the story of Estela Barnes Carlotto, a human rights activist in Argentina, chairwoman of the Association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who stopped being a housewife to get involved in public affairs after the kidnap of her daughter, Laura Estela Carlotto in 1977. The film is about the way her life was transformed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-11-17
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Bye Bye Life
Overview: The movie depicts the last days of life of photographer Gabriela Liffschitz, who went into a coma the following day after the shooting and died two days later, on February 13, 2004, as a result of breast cancer. Liffschitz, who knew that he was affected by a terminal breast cancer film project along with Enrique Piñeyro, assuming you had a few months to live.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-02-01
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From Tuesday to Tuesday
Overview: Juan is a 35 year old man whose hobby is bodybuilding. He works in a factory, where despite its huge and muscled physique, is mistreated by his bosses and colleagues. His biggest dream is to leave that life gray and a better life, especially owning your own gym, but has yet to collect some money. And that is, when, in the evening of another of his routine days, attends a terrible episode before which makes a decision that suddenly puts a moral crossroads.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-10-03
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The Vampire Spider
Overview: A teenager goes to the foothills of the Andes to deal with his phobias.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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Una muerte silenciosa
Overview: Octavio, a hunting guide from southern Argentina, desperately fights to clarify the death of his niece Sofía, discovered shot in the hunting preserve where he works. The shot bursts into the darkness, unleashing an enigma that shakes the entire town. Octavio will be forced to unravel what really happened that night and thus confront a truth that threatens to change everything forever.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-01-09
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Felicitas
Overview: Buenos Aires at the outskirts of XIX century. A society rigid in patriarchal rules. A war between brothers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Two young and very much in love youngsters, fight for their right to be together. Obeyance and fear sets them apart along more than ten years. When they are finally reunited, will they be able to overcome the pain and tragedy that haunts them?
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-06-11
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The Mystery of Happiness
Overview: Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio suddenly vanishes, Santiago and Eugenio’s wife, join forces to look for him. What they discover is not what they set out to find, and their shared journey becomes a surprising and lighthearted meditation on friendship, love, and loyalty.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-01-16
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La cola
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-09-13
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CP 9409
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Genres: War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-04-02
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The Games Maker
Overview: Young Ivan Drago's newfound love of board games catapults him into the fantastical and competitive world of game invention, and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who has long desired to destroy the city of Zyl, founded by Ivan's grandfather. To save his family and defeat Morodian, Ivan must come to know what it is to be a true games maker.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-07-03
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¿Dónde estaba Dios cuando te fuiste?
Overview: A crime and a voice that accuses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Un amor de Borges
Overview: Estela Canto and Jorge Luis Borges meet in 1944. She is an intelligent and beautiful woman. He, still an unknown writer, is shy and very attached to his mother. They fall in love, or at least Borges does.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-09-07
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Francis: Pray for Me
Overview: A look at the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, form his early childhood days in Argentina to his becoming Pope Francis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-09-10
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Passionate People
Overview: Uma, tired of waiting for the man of her dreams to raise a family, decides that Nico, the boyfriend of her best friend Lucy, has all necessary features. So she asks her a favor: to lend her boyfriend once. In the middle of surprising situations, Uma convinces Lucia and Nico. That way it starts what first seems "a simple procedure"...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-06-03
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Transmitzvah
Overview: After embracing her female identity, Rubén rejects her Bar Mitzvah. When tragedy strikes years later, she returns as Mumy Singer to celebrate it her way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-10-10
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Nine Queens
Overview: Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-08-31
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The Bar
Overview: In downtown Madrid, a series of mysterious gunshots trap a motley assortment of people in a decrepit bar.
Genres: Horror Thriller Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-02-15
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Amateur
Overview: Martin is a lonely television director who becomes obsessed with his neighbor Isabel when he finds an amateur porn video in which she participates. However Isabel turns out to be the wife of the owner of the TV network where he works.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-11-24
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Cops
Overview: Two men from completely different backgrounds confront a gang of swindlers. Norberto Lorenzi and Guillermo Parodi are the two "jokers" who meet and relate with the usual initial distrust. Lorenzo is impelled by the necessity to clear the name of Pérez, his best friend. Parodi, on the other hand, has been called to disperse a ring of "narcos"...
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-06-19
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Severina
Overview: A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-08-21
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Foolish Heart
Overview: Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan hangs out with several intellectuals who would like to photograph the human soul. The girlfriend of the group's financier is Ana, and Juan is attracted to her, despite the knowledge that she spent two years at a clinic because she was "crazy." Juan sees Ana when he can and trains as a door-to-door salesman, but when the German photographer on the soul project gives him a viewfinder, it changes his life, putting him on the path to his later success as a Hollywood director.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-06-02
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The Unseen
Overview: The film "Los Últimos" takes us into post-apocalyptic not-so-distant future in which there is war over water. This war reaches Latin America and the story follows a young couple trying to escape refugee camp in Bolivia and find better life in the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-11-09
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El jugador
Overview: A retired gambler who works for a wealthy meat entrepreneur, travels to Mar del Plata where he must give a considerable sum of money to his boss's grandchildren.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-11-17
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Surviving the 70's
Overview: A disgruntled book editor is about to commit suicide when he is interrupted by a woman, who threatens to do the same if he does not read her book.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-11-02
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Sangre blanca
Overview: Martina and Manuel cross the border from Bolivia as «mules». Manuel dies with the cocaine capsules inside his body. Martina turns to her father, who she never met before, for help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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El camino
Overview: Manuel is a lonely young man of upper middle class who lives in Buenos Aires with his mother. Due to a fortuitous circumstance, one day he discovers that his father, whom he does not know and whom he supposes living abroad, is in the country. He decides to go and look for him and on his motorcycle starts a long way south through Patagonia.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-08-17
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Kluge
Overview: Kluge a psychological thriller, a suspense story, about a French journalist, Anne, who is preparing a research paper on Argentina by interviewing female professionals. Travel to Buenos Aires for a series of interviews and begins with Marisa Losada, an illustrator of children's books. In the first encounter, an accidental exchange of identical cell phones takes place, and Anne receives shortly after a call from a certain Kluge who takes her for Marisa - whom she does not know personally - and makes a strange proposal to her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-05-10
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No Escape
Overview: The spiritual journey of a man with a debt that cannot be paid. In a Korean supermarket not too important, a small embezzlement is discovered. Luciano, a young man who works there, is pressured by the Koreans to return the money he stole in less than twenty-four hours.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-09-04
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Ay, Juancito
Overview: A film about the life of Juan Ramón Duarte, Evita's only brother. His ascent, his excesses, and his demise, in the times of Juan Domingo Perón.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-06-10
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El visitante
Overview: Pedro, a Falklands veteran, cannot forget the days when he was in the trenches, nor can he forget Raúl, his best friend, who stayed forever in that desolate place of nightmares.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-04-01
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El otro: no todo es lo que ves
Overview: Marcos is a 35-year-old cadet, cynical, unbelieving, passive and pessimistic, with a completely individualistic philosophy of life, who after being involved in a bank robbery meets a mysterious man who gives him a new lease on life. To get his life back, Marcos must prove his innocence and decides to investigate what really happened in the robbery. When Marcos finally gets what he needs for his acquittal, he must make a decision: to remain the center of his life or to put the other person first.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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Safe Passage
Overview: In the present, in Spain, Miguel's mind, affected by a brain disease, seems cloistered in the past, in Argentina, in the seventies, when he risked his life for his ideals. He is obsessed with finding a woman named Diana. Mario, his son, who has been away from Miguel for a long time, now feels compelled to unravel the mystery of a name that, like a curse, pursues his father.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-04-08
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Una mujer sucede
Overview: In an inland village, on a rainy night, the wake of a woman whose name is unknown takes place. There is only one mourner and two more men, attracted by destiny. During the night, like a game of cards, the identity of this woman who, according to them, once belonged to them and never saw again will be revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-11-22
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El almuerzo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-10-25
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The Die Is Cast
Overview: Felipe, an aspiring actor, believes he is jinxed after an unfortunate event. His struggle to find the cause and cure of his jinx. His half-brother is not doing much better, but among the two of them embark on a mission to change their lives and fulfill their father's dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-08-11
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El día que me amen
Overview: Mental illness and the power of friendship. Mara and Joaquín were childhood friends, next-door neighbors. They are now in their early 30s. She's returned to Acassuno after eight years abroad, ostensibly to audition for a part in a musical. Joaquín has been a recluse in his parents' house, perhaps because Mara left without a word years before. Mara seeks to renew the friendship, which may be good f
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-06-12
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Eva & Lola
Overview: Eva and Lola are close friends. While Eva tries to cope with her past creating a fantasy life, Lola does not want to handle with the truth of her real identity. Two friends with different views of the same story.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-06-03
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Samurai
Overview: A Japanese immigrant (Nicolas Nakayama) and a war veteran (Alejandro Awada) search for an exiled samurai in the mountains of Argentina.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-05-02
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The Paradise
Overview: Rosario, 1926. Magdalena and Anna Scilko, along with a group of women from the old continent, arrive to the city with the hope of a better future, escaping the post-war period. But nothing will turn out as they had imagined. When they get off the ship they will be kidnapped by The Abramovs, a family that operates as a criminal organization, and manages the most important network of brothels in the city.
Genres: Animation Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Arizona sur
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-01-18
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24 horas (Algo está por explotar)
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-09-18
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Acrobacias del Corazón
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-04-13
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El Tigre escondido
Overview: Bernardo is fifty years old and feels overwhelmed, confused, almost devastated; surrounded by the violence typical of a society that is slowly collapsing. With relationship problems, difficulties in conceiving a child and a woman who cannot - and does not care - dive into his deepest conflicts. Bernardo finds no rest anywhere. His head is about to explode when he decides to take a little vacation with Diana at their house in Tigre. They will not go alone: Nancy, an islander and house cleaner, will be part of a key night for Bernardo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-03-02
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La Voz
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-05-25
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