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Directed by | Daniel Burman |
Produced by |
Diego Dubcovsky Daniel Burman Diego Dubcovsky (Executive Producer) |
Written by |
Marcelo Birmajer Daniel Burman |
Starring |
Daniel Hendler Sergio Boris Adriana Aizemberg |
Narrated by | Daniel Hendler |
Music by | César Lerner |
Cinematography | Ramiro Civita |
Edited by | Alejandro Brodersohn |
Distributed by |
BD Cine Axiom Films (UK and Ireland) |
Release date
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Running time
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100 minutes |
Country |
Argentina France Italy Spain |
Language | Spanish Korean Lithuanian Yiddish |
Lost Embrace (Spanish: El abrazo partido) is a 2004 Argentine, French, Italian, and Spanish comedy drama film, directed by Daniel Burman and written by Burman and Marcelo Birmajer. The picture features Daniel Hendler, Adriana Aizemberg, Jorge D'Elía, among others.
The drama was Argentina's official choice for the 2004 Oscar Awards, Foreign Language film category.
The comedy-drama tells of Ariel Makaroff, the grandson of Holocaust-era Polish refugees, who is currently on a complex search for his personal and cultural identity.
The episodes in the life of a Jewish family in the Once neighborhood of Buenos Aires and the other shopkeepers in a low-rent commercial gallery are depicted in the story.
The narrator, Ariel Makaroff (Daniel Hendler), is the son of Sonia Makaroff (Adriana Aizemberg) who was deserted by her husband (Jorge D'Elía) when he went to Israel in 1973 to fight in the Yom Kippur War. Yet, the father is in touch with Sonia via telephone weekly and supports Ariel and his brother Joseph (Sergio Boris). Sonia runs a lingerie shop in the gallery.
Ariel is a young man in a hurry without much of a sense of direction. He's having an affair with Rita (Silvina Bosco), an older woman, pines for his former girlfriend Estella (Melina Petriella), and fantasizes of emigrating to Poland, where his family came from during World War II.