Writing

Mario Benedetti

Born September 14, 1920 · Paso de los Toros, Tacuarembó, Uruguay

Died May 17, 2009 · aged 88

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mario Benedetti, was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet as well as being an integral member of the Generación del 45. In spite of publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world, but in the Spanish-speaking world he was considered one of Latin America's most important writers f…

Known For

Los pocillos

Los pocillos · 1974

The Dark Side of the Heart

The Dark Side of the Heart · 1992

The Dark Side of the Heart

MovieComedyDrama

Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?

The Truce

The Truce · 2003

Martín Santomé has been working in an office for the last 50 years, but his life will change when he starts falling in love with a woman named Laura Avellaneda.

País verde y herido

País verde y herido · 1979

País verde y herido

MovieDocumentary

The Truce

The Truce · 1974

MovieRomanceDrama

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.

Las sorpresas

Las sorpresas · 1975

MovieComedyDrama

"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.

Dale nomás

Dale nomás · 1974

Thanks for the Fire

Thanks for the Fire · 1984

Thanks for the Fire

The failure of Budiño Ramon, who plans first murder of his father and is recognized after unable to carry it out, is due largely to the general attitude of a society that tolerates no dramatic gestures. However, the inadequacies of radical class, beliefs, feelings, profession and memory also plays a leading role in the drama.

Filmography

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Los pocillos

Los pocillos · 1974

Short Story

The Dark Side of the Heart

The Dark Side of the Heart · 1992

The Dark Side of the Heart

MovieComedyDrama

Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?

Writer

The Truce

The Truce · 2003

Martín Santomé has been working in an office for the last 50 years, but his life will change when he starts falling in love with a woman named Laura Avellaneda.

Writer

País verde y herido

País verde y herido · 1979

País verde y herido

MovieDocumentary

The Truce

The Truce · 1974

MovieRomanceDrama

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.

Novel

Las sorpresas

Las sorpresas · 1975

MovieComedyDrama

"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.

Writer

Dale nomás

Dale nomás · 1974

Author

Thanks for the Fire

Thanks for the Fire · 1984

Thanks for the Fire

The failure of Budiño Ramon, who plans first murder of his father and is recognized after unable to carry it out, is due largely to the general attitude of a society that tolerates no dramatic gestures. However, the inadequacies of radical class, beliefs, feelings, profession and memory also plays a leading role in the drama.

Novel