A Shadow You Soon Will Be
– This film follows the exploits of middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the ..
This film follows the exploits of middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the early 80's following the end of Argentina's long military dictatorship and is based on a 1990 novel by Osvaldo Soriano. Only recently returned from European exile, with no family and friends to welcome him home, "the engineer" travels the lonely southern Pampas of Argentina on the way to a job. He is periodically joined by other strange wanderers such as Nadia, the gun slinging psychic, Lem, a strange travelling millionaire, Barante, the hobo, and Coluccini, a bankrupt circus owner who involves "the engineer" in a rigged card game..
05 May 1994
Spanish, Italian, Latin
Héctor Olivera
Héctor Olivera, Osvaldo Soriano (novel), Osvaldo Soriano
Miguel Ángel Solá, Pepe Soriano, Martín Coria, Roberto Carnaghi
A computer programmer who, after his train breaks down, takes to wandering aimlessly through remote regions of La Pampa, Viedma and Carhue. he meets a succession of equally lost souls, including a globe-trotting gambler, a circus owner whose performers left him "because the whole country was a circus: and a tarot card reader with large gaps in her knowledge of the future.
6 wins & 7 nominations.