China Zorrilla

Acting

China Zorrilla

Born — Died

1922-03-14 — 2014-09-17

Place of birth

Montevideo - Uruguay

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

China Zorrilla (born Concepción Matilde Zorrilla de San Martín Muñoz; Montevideo, 14 March 1922 –Montevideo, 17 September 2014) was an emblematic Uruguayan theater, film, and television actress, also director, producer and writer. An immensely popular star in the Rioplatense area is often regarded as a Grand Dame of the South American theater stage. After a long career in the Uruguayan theater, Zorrilla made over 50 appearances in Argentina's film, theater and TV. Her distinguished career took off in Uruguay in the 50-60s, later she settled in Argentina where she lived for over 35 years and was popular on TV, theater, and cinema. At 90, she retired and went back to Uruguay where she died in…

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

Elsa & Fred poster
7.7

When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.

Elsa & Fred

2005

Tres de corazones poster
4.0

Angel decides to return to his hometown. In an inn on the route meets Dora, and they engage in conversation, but their relationship did not end there. Once installed in the same city, Angel gets a job as a taxi driver will take you to reconnect with Dora. The attraction they both feel continues, even though Angel discovers that Dora is the wife of his boss, a former police officer made ​​in the street, given to sudden outbursts of violence. .

Tres de corazones

2007

Touch the Sky poster
6.2

A family divided between two continents put their differences aside when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.

Touch the Sky

2007

Conversations with Mother poster
5.9

Jaime has lost his job and has to provide for his wife, son and daughter. Pressured by this circumstances, he visits his mom, who lives in an apartment he owns, to ask her to move with him so he can sell the apartment. But she is not going to cooperate. And, to Jaime's surprise, she also has a boyfriend!

Conversations with Mother

2004

Blood Pacific poster
NR

Jorge is an old artist, actor and director, who says he wants to direct a film about the Latin American wars of independence. Charito is a young woman who comes from the Peruvian jungle to work as a maid in Buenos Aires. The unconscious of the protagonists bursts in the form of dreams, visions and fantasies amid horses, fencing sessions, fragments of lost films and anthropological videos.

Blood Pacific

2009

1990s · 7 titles

Summer of the Colt poster
8.5

This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, breaks and train his first horse; their 13-year-old sister, Laura, struggles with the transition between childhood and growing up. The kids find it difficult to adapt to their proud and stubborn grandfather, and he learns that he has to change his ways and try to understand them as they all experience the joys and sorrows of growing up and growing old. ~ Alice Duncan, Rovi

Summer of the Colt

1991

Warriors and Prisoners poster
3.7

Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.

Warriors and Prisoners

1990

Cuatro caras para Victoria poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cuatro caras para Victoria

1992

Besos en la frente poster
7.2

Mercedes, a widow of eighty and fearful of loneliness, falls in love with Sebastian, a writer sixty years younger than her. Mercedes will feel trapped in her wrinkled and slow body that which prevents her from living their love as it should be lived.

Besos en la frente

1996

God Raises Them poster
4.0

Angel lives with his mother and has homosexual inclinations. One day he meets Mirna, a prostitute who has a son. The three try to form a strange family.

God Raises Them

1991

Ship of Fools poster
7.2

In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts to defend himself. Locked up, he waits for the arrival of "Caleuche," the Ship (Nave) of Fools (de los locos), a mythical figure of his ancestral strength which "made" him start the fire. An appointed lawyer (a white woman) comes to the chief's defence, alleging the chief had acted in self-defense as the white man was building commercial structures on the sacred burial grounds of his ancestors, and continued doing so even after heated protests.

Ship of Fools

1995

Lola Mora poster
10.0

The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.

Lola Mora

1996

1980s · 9 titles

Waiting for the Hearse poster
8.1

Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?

Waiting for the Hearse

1985

To Realize poster
7.2

After a brutal car accident, a young man falls into a coma and is left to be looked after by a doctor who suffers in his personal life and commits himself fully to save his patient.

To Realize

1984

Nobody's Wife poster
7.0

It is the story of Eleanor, a good housewife who lives with her husband, Fernando, and their two children. Deeply loves her husband and does not question the reciprocity of love and fidelity. One day, circumstantially, discovers her husband is cheating. Leonor emotionally feels betrayed and realizes that his world, based on a lie, has collapsed like a house of cards. With more fear than conviction, leaving the house, leaving little signs with instructions for their march and trust their children to the care of her husband.

Nobody's Wife

1982

Nunca estuve en Viena poster
10.0

About an upper-class family during the Centenary of the May Revolution, which coincides with the decline of the aristocratic classes in those years.

Nunca estuve en Viena

1989

Last Days of the Victim poster
7.4

Mendizábal, a hit man, its ordered by his anonymous clients to murder a man. But in the precise and obsessive persecution, he will discover that he is only part of a game that doesn't belong to him, a web at the service of greater interests.

Last Days of the Victim

1982

Poor Butterfly poster
6.7

A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.

Poor Butterfly

1986

Pubis angelical poster
5.1

It's about three women, three stories, or perhaps a single story in different projections of time and space. The Mistress wishes to unravel the meaning of being a woman is the victim of Hollywood. Ana is the product of a society ruled or dominated by men.

Pubis angelical

1982

Contar hasta diez poster
8.0

Argentina's turbulent political history is an uncredited but clearly present protagonist in this rather slow-paced story about Ramon (Oscar Martinez) and his search for his brother Pedro in the capital city of Buenos Aires. Pedro has disappeared at a time of upheaval, after a military junta takes over Argentina in 1976, killing thousands of leftists and dissidents. Unlike many others, Ramon's father has political ties that matter, but that may not change Pedro's fate, which could be death -- or like some who have been tortured, worse than death. This film was nominated for a Golden Bear award at the 1985 Berlin Film Festival.

Contar hasta diez

1985

La Invitación poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

La Invitación

1982

1970s · 9 titles

Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos poster
6.5

Count Dracula travels to Buenos Aires with his secretary and stays in a very special hotel, where several mobsters are also staying.

Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos

1974

The Mafia poster
6.3

The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.

The Mafia

1972

Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez poster
3.9

When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life.

Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez

1973

Jewish Gauchos poster
7.1

The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.

Jewish Gauchos

1975

Triangle of Four poster
8.0

In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman.

Triangle of Four

1975

The Truce poster
7.5

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.

The Truce

1974

Un guapo del 900 poster
6.8

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.

Un guapo del 900

1971

Las sorpresas poster
9.0

"The Surprises" is an episode film. In the episode Five Years of Life an unknown man and woman spend a night locked in a subway station. In Corazonada, a domestic employee takes revenge on her employer by making her son fall in love and in The Wells there is a love triangle in which the deceived husband is blind.

Las sorpresas

1975

Heroína poster
6.2

A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.

Heroína

1972

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