Bolivia (film)
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| Directed by | Israel Adrián Caetano |
| Produced by |
Executive Producer: Matías Mosteirín Producer: Roberto Ferro Associate Producer: Lita Stantic |
| Written by |
Screenplay: Israel Adrián Caetano Story: Romina Lafranchini |
| Starring |
Freddy Flores Enrique Liporace Rosa Sánchez |
| Music by | Los Kjarkas |
| Cinematography | Julián Apezteguia |
| Edited by |
Santiago Ricci Lucas Scavino |
| Distributed by | Cinema Tropical |
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75 minutes |
| Country |
Argentina Netherlands |
| Language | Spanish |
Bolivia is a 2001 Argentine and Dutch drama film directed by Israel Adrián Caetano, his first feature-length film. The screenplay is written by Caetano, based upon the Romina Lafranchini story, about his wife. The motion picture features Freddy Flores and Rosa Sánchez, among others.
The film was photographed in "gritty" 16mm black-and-white, and was shot by cinematographer Julián Apezteguia.Bolivia was filmed entirely in Buenos Aires.
The mostly plot-free film is confined to a café-bar in the lower-middle class Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Crespo, with few trips outside.
Bolivia tells the story of Freddy (Freddy Flores), a Bolivian with a gentle disposition, who, after Americans burn down the coca fields where he is employed, loses his job. With little work opportunities in Bolivia, he leaves his wife and three daughters and travels to Argentina to search for employment as an undocumented worker. He hopes to make money and later return to his family.
He lands a job as a grill cook in a seedy Villa Crespo café where the brutish owner (Enrique Liporace) is happy to skirt Argentinian immigrant laws in order to secure cheap labor.
It is in this café that Freddy meets the characters who affect his life: Rosa (Rosa Sánchez), a waitress of Paraguayan/Argentine descent, and an outsider by virtue of her mixed heritage; Héctor (Héctor Anglada), a traveling salesman from the province of Córdoba who's gay; a Porteño taxi driver (Oscar Bertea), and one of the driver's buddies.
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