Plata Quemada
| Burnt Money | |
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| Directed by | Marcelo Piñeyro |
| Produced by |
Diana Frey Oscar Kramer |
| Screenplay by |
Marcelo Piñeyro Marcelo Figueras |
| Based on | the novel Plata Quemada by Ricardo Piglia |
| Starring |
Eduardo Noriega Leonardo Sbaraglia Pablo Echarri |
| Music by | Osvaldo Montes |
| Cinematography | Alfredo F. Mayo |
| Edited by | Juan Carlos Macías |
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Production
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Oscar Kramer S.A.
Cuatro Cabezas |
| Distributed by | Lider Films Alta Films |
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Release date
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Running time
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125 minutes |
| Country |
Argentina France Spain Uruguay |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget | $7,000,000 |
| Box office | $44,753,475 |
Burnt Money (Spanish: ''Plata quemada'') is a 2001 Argentine action thriller directed by Marcelo Piñeyro and written by Piñeyro and Marcelo Figueras. Starring Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eduardo Noriega, Pablo Echarri, Leticia Brédice and Ricardo Bartis, it is based on Ricardo Piglia's 1997 Planeta prize-winning novel of the same name. The novel was inspired by the true story of a notorious 1965 bank robbery in Buenos Aires.
Plata quemada won, among other awards, the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film in 2002. It was partly funded by INCAA.
The setting is Argentina, 1965. El Nene (Leonardo Sbaraglia), a petty thief, and Angel (Eduardo Noriega), a drifter, meet in the bathroom of a Buenos Aires subway station, and from that moment they are inseparable. They become known as "the twins", but their relationship is in fact that of lovers and, soon, as partners in crime. At a point when their relationship is already turning difficult, the plot sets in.
Their love and loyalty to each other is tested when "the twins" join a plan to hold up an armored truck together with a group of seasoned gangsters: their swaggering straight cohort Cuervo (Pablo Echarri), a sedative addict who's been carrying on an affair with the luscious Vivi (Dolores Fonzi); a 16-year-old nymphet; the trio's boss Fontana (Ricardo Bartis); and the elderly lawyer Nando (Carlos Roffé), who is past the days of any professional illusions and helps make connections to find a good team for the crime.
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