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The Vigil

The Vigil

2010 · 90 min · ★ 2.0 · Drama, Thriller

The Vigil is a thriller film that tells the story of the relation established between two opposite characters that share an intense and strange night in today's Lima. Edgardo Chocano, a westernized Peruvian intellectual of upper class and a violent and instinctive girl of the lower class that is escaping the threat of a gang of criminals. It's main theme deals with the possibility of an understanding between this two contradicting characters.

Directed by Augusto Tamayo San Román · Written by Augusto Tamayo San Román

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