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Marcelo Céspedes
Born April 27, 1955 · Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Died May 5, 2020 · aged 65
No biography available.
Known For
Embrace of the Serpent · 2015Embrace of the Serpent
★ 7.72015
MovieDramaAdventure
The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
The Blonds · 2003The Blonds
★ 6.02003
MovieDocumentary
In 1977, when she was four years old, Albertina Carri's parents vanished without a trace, victims of Argentina's brutal military junta. In this fresh and politically daring film, the young Argentinian filmmaker attempts to unravel the mystery, piecing together her memories and fantasies in a quest to understand her parents' untimely fate.
Los totos · 1983Los totos
★ 9.01983
MovieDocumentary
Produced in almost marginal conditions, Los Totos is a portrait of life in impoverished neighbourhoods
La virgen gaucha · 1987La virgen gaucha
★ 8.01987
MovieDrama
The parallel accounts of the story of the Virgin of Luján in the seventeenth century and of a blind violinist who regains her vision during the Pope's visit to Argentina in 1982
Tinta roja · 1998Tinta roja
★ 5.01998
MovieDocumentary
The way a group of police journalists track and obtain information for their work.
Night Watch · 2005Night Watch
★ 5.72005
MovieDrama
A long night's journey into day: Victor, a street hustler in the Santa Fe and Pueyrredón neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, from the evening of November 1, All Saints Day, to the dawn of November 2, All Souls Day. Victor's odyssey takes him from clients to friends to a gay gym then a hotel room and an all-night café. He plays pick-up soccer with kids whose parents are going through trash or waiting in parks. A vendor gives him a chrysanthemum. It seems he's being followed, and on the night streets, death is close at hand. Can Victor survive until dawn?
Buenos Aires, crónicas villeras · 1986Buenos Aires, crónicas villeras
★ 8.01986
MovieDocumentary
Documentary based on the forced expulsion of more than 250,000 slum dwellers from the Federal Capital during the last military dictatorship. A sympathetic and compassionate look at the suffering of marginalized individuals.
Everything Together · 2002Everything Together
★ 9.02002
MovieDrama
Federico León crosses the path of the cinema to tell in Everything together the endless, torn struggles of a couple that never stops separating.
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