Margarita Musto

Acting

Margarita Musto

Born November 16, 1955 (age 70)

Margarita Musto (born 16 November 1955) is a Uruguayan actress, theater director, translator, teacher, and general and artistic director of the Comedia Nacional. She graduated in 1982 from the Margarita Xirgu Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art (EMAD). In 1993 she played the leading role in La historia casi verdadera de Pepita la Pistolera, for which she received awards at the Guadalajara Int…

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Southern StarSouthern Star · 2002
Southern Star
8.02002
MovieDramaAction
Gregorio is a Tupamaro exiled in Spain who has returned to Uruguay. He has not yet revealed his secret: on the site where today he intends to build a house for his family there are buried weapons and ammunition from his guerrilla past.
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the MountainsStranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains · 2007
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
8.02007
MovieDocumentaryHistory
The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who managed to survive for 72 days, at an altitude of almost 4,000 meters, in the heart of the Andes Mountains, after their plane, en route to Chile, crashed there on October 13, 1972.
Retrato de mujer con hombre al fondoRetrato de mujer con hombre al fondo · 1997
Retrato de mujer con hombre al fondo
4.01997
MovieDrama
Cristina is a 35-year-old woman who has life figured out: she has a job she loves and a beautiful house. However, her life begins to change when she starts feeling attracted to one of her clients.
La memoria de Blas QuadraLa memoria de Blas Quadra · 2000
La memoria de Blas Quadra
7.02000
MovieDrama
Blas Quadra, a writer who was part of the Latin American boom of the '60s, now lives in Uruguay, blind and in seclusion while his son Gabriel is quite successful as a screenwriter in Spain. But one reporter found many similarities in the scripts of Gabriel and his father's work.
¿Cómo te clasifico?¿Cómo te clasifico? · 2011
¿Cómo te clasifico?
2011
MovieComedyDrama
It is Nelson's first day at work. He has to conduct a survey at Mirna's house, a deprived shack in the middle of a garbage dump. But Mirna has no specific answers to any of the questions in the form.
BreadcrumbsBreadcrumbs · 2016
Breadcrumbs
4.92016
MovieDrama
When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to reconcile with her son and be able to live peacefully as a mother and a grandmother.
Polvo nuestro que estas en los cielosPolvo nuestro que estas en los cielos · 2008
Polvo nuestro que estas en los cielos
5.72008
MovieDrama
Aurelio Saravia is a powerful politician who holds office in Uruguay in the mid-1960's. When Aurelio's mistress kills herself, he adopts their illegitimate daughter Masangeles despite the stern objections of his wife Aurora. Masangeles finds herself growing up in a home ruled by a corrupt and self-centered tyrant and his manic colleagues while Uruguay teeters on the brink of civil war as bands of revolutionaries battle government militias. When she turns fourteen, Masangeles discovers a secret passageway in their home that leads to sanctuary in a nearby church which also serves as a storehouse for guns and ill-gotten cash. Teenage Masangeles falls in love with Santiago, her stepbrother who has joined the rebels fighting against the state, and she persuades him to take her virginity.
Pepita the HolsterPepita the Holster · 1993
Pepita the Holster
6.01993
MovieDramaThriller
A mother struggles to raise her daughter all by herself, and due to the economic difficulties decides to rob multiple finance houses, fooling her victims with the handle of her umbrella that she make them think is a real revolver.

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Polvo nuestro que estas en los cielosPolvo nuestro que estas en los cielos · 2008
Polvo nuestro que estas en los cielos
5.72008
MovieDrama
Aurelio Saravia is a powerful politician who holds office in Uruguay in the mid-1960's. When Aurelio's mistress kills herself, he adopts their illegitimate daughter Masangeles despite the stern objections of his wife Aurora. Masangeles finds herself growing up in a home ruled by a corrupt and self-centered tyrant and his manic colleagues while Uruguay teeters on the brink of civil war as bands of revolutionaries battle government militias. When she turns fourteen, Masangeles discovers a secret passageway in their home that leads to sanctuary in a nearby church which also serves as a storehouse for guns and ill-gotten cash. Teenage Masangeles falls in love with Santiago, her stepbrother who has joined the rebels fighting against the state, and she persuades him to take her virginity.

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