The Cleaner
- Original title
- El limpiador
- Year
- 2012
- Running time
- 96 min.
- Country
- Peru
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Pandemic. Survival Film. Post-apocalyptic Future
- Synopsis
- Eusebio, a man whose work as a forensic cleaner is to sterilize places where someone has died, is the busiest he has ever been since the outbreak of a mysterious epidemia that has the city of Lima in its grips. One day, while cleaning an abandoned house, he comes across a boy hiding in a wardrobe; it is obvious his parents are dead. Now, with the mission to find the boy's remaining family, Eusebio takes charges of the child and tries to look after him in a slowly dying city.
- Awards
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2012: San Sebastian Film Festival: Special Mention (New Directors)2012: Mar del Plata Film Festival: Official Latinamerican Films Selection2012: La Habana Film Festival: Special Mention (First Films Section)2013: Academy Awards; Selected by Peru for Best Foreign Film2014: Platino Awards: Nominated for Best Original Music & Actor (Victor Prada)2012: Paris International Fantastic Film Festival (PIFFF): nominated to Best Film.
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