Olympic Garage
| Olympic Garage | |
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| Directed by | Marco Bechis |
| Produced by | Amedeo Pagani Marco Bechis Enrique Piñeyro Eric Heumann |
| Written by | Marco Bechis Lara Fremder Collaborating writer: Caterina Giargia |
| Starring |
Antonella Costa Carlos Echevarría Enrique Piñeyro |
| Music by | Jacques Lederlin |
| Cinematography | Ramiro Civita |
| Edited by | Jacopo Quadri |
| Distributed by | Istituto Luce Aqua Films |
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98 minutes |
| Country |
Argentina France Italy |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget | $3,000,000 estimated |
Olympic Garage (Spanish: Garage Olimpo) is a 1999 Argentine drama film, directed by Marco Bechis.
The film was produced by Marco Bechis, Enrique Piñeyro (from Argentina), Amedeo Pagani (Italy), and Eric Heumann (France). Executive producers Daniel Burman and Diego Dubcovsky.
The picture is about a young politically active Argentine woman who is kidnapped by the military during Argentina's Dirty War in the late 1970s. She is taken to a torture center called Garage Olimpo in the middle of Buenos Aires.
The film tells of Maria (Antonella Costa), a political activist in an Argentine organization that is fighting the oppressive military dictatorship during the Dirty War.
She also teaches reading and writing in the suburbs of Buenos Aires in a blighted area.
She lives in a decrepit rooming house with her mother Diane (Dominique Sanda), who rents out some rooms. One of the lodgers is a young man named Felix (Carlos Echevarría), who's in love with Maria, and rather shy.
Felix seems to have come from nowhere and is supposed to work as a watchman in a garage. One morning, Maria is kidnapped by a military squad in civilian clothes in front of her mother and is taken to the garage Olimpo, one of the many well-known torture places in the middle of Buenos Aires, which operate to the general indifference of the local citizens.
As soon as Maria is captured the film's mood becomes uncomfortable and the atmosphere is minimalist.
Tigre, who's the head of the center (Enrique Piñeyro), appoints Felix, their best torturer, to make Maria talk.
Yet, Felix is overcome by his feelings for Maria, and Maria is determined to exploit the situation with Felix for her survival.
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