Writing

Tomás Eloy Martínez

Known for

Writing

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5 titles

Known for

The House of Water poster
6.5

Set in the 1920s in Venezuela, this political melodrama by Jacobo Penzo follows the decision of the fictional Cruz Elías León (Franklin Virguéz), a young Venezuelan poet, to give up a life of social and possibly mainstream political advancement to go back to his home and family in an isolated fishing village and combat the despotic military dictator in charge of the country.

The House of Water

1984

Jake & Blake poster
3.5

Identical teen twins Jake and Blake were unaware of each other's existence until fate reunited them.

Jake & Blake

2009

El terrorista poster
NR

A weak man is used by an organization to commit terrorist attacks.

El terrorista

1962

Un rey para la Patagonia poster
6.0

In 1971, the graphic and advertising artist Juan Fresán set out to film the story of Orélie Antoine de Tounens, the delirious Frenchman who 100 years earlier had proclaimed himself ‘King of Patagonia and Araucanía’, with his own constitution, currency and ministers. The film, titled "New France," was left unfinished, first due to lack of funds and then because its author had to go into exile. If the story is familiar to many today, this is because in the '80s Carlos Sorín made' The King's movie ', inspired by that frustrated shoot, in which he had worked as a cinematographer. In 2004, Fresán contacted Turturro to help him rescue the preserved film. Fresán died in that same year, but Turturro decided to retake the trace of that truncated film, exhuming unpublished materials, returning to their original settings and gathering testimonies, to illuminate the two stories - one within the other - that make up this true story, more strange and fascinating than any fiction.

Un rey para la Patagonia

2011

El último piso poster
NR

A proletarian family is forced to share their room with another family.

El último piso

1962

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