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Enlightened by Fire

6.4

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Original title

Iluminados por el fuego

Year

2005

Running time

100 min.

Country

Argentina

Director

Tristán Bauer

Screenwriter

Tristán Bauer, Edgardo Esteban, Gustavo Romero Borri, Miguel Bonasso

Cast

Music

León Gieco, Federico Bonasso

Cinematography

Javier Juliá

Producer

Co-production Argentina-Spain;

Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Gobierno de la Provincia de San Luis, Canal+ España, San Luis Cine, Gobierno de la Provincia de Santa Cruz, INCAA

Genre

War. Drama | The Falklands War. Army. 1980s

Synopsis

Iluminados por el fuego narrates the memories of 40-year-old Esteban Leguizamón, who went to fight in the Falklands in 1982 at the age of only 18. An ex-companion?s suicide throws him back into the memories of a war in which he fought with another two young recruits: Vargas, the one who committed suicide, and Juan, killed in combat. There he finds not only the horrors of the war and suffering from the cold, but also tales of friendship and comradeship. Esteban?s thoughts convey the slow and gradual descent of their fragile lives into the claws of death itself. 20 years after the war, Esteban decides to return to the Islands to face his past and close old wounds.

Awards: 2005: San Sebastián Film Festival: Jury Special Prize

2005: Goya Awards: Best Foreign Spanish Film

2005: Havana International Film Festival: Grand Coral - Best Film

2006: Tribeca Film Festival: Best Movie

2005: Havana Film Festival: Best Film (Grand Coral - First Prize).

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Enlightened by Fire

2005

Tristán Bauer

6.4

(4,153)