Country: Argentina, Denmark, France, Mexico, USA
Year: 2014
Duration: 108'
1882. The Danish captain Gunnar Dinesen arrives in Patagonia with his fifteen-year-old daughter to work as an engineer for the Argentine army during the so-called desert conquest, the systematic genocide of the local Aborigines. Ingeborg is the only female there; her presence throws the soldiers into turmoil and one night she runs away with one of them without telling her father anything. When Gunnar wakes up the next morning, he realizes what has happened and leaves the military base to venture into the savage enemy territory as he desperately searches for his daughter.
Biography
film director
Lisandro Alonso
(Argentina, 1973), after attending the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, he began working in film in 1996, producing the short film La última llamada by Andrés G. Schaer. In 1998, he served as assistant director to Nicolás Sarquim on the film Sobre la tierra, and in 2001 he made his feature film debut with La libertad, presented in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, which established him as one of the most interesting young directors in contemporary cinema. His next film, Los muertos (2004), presented at the Directors’ Fortnight, received several international awards, including Best Film at the Turin Film Festival. With his subsequent films, Fantasma and Liverpool (2010), he returned to the Directors’ Fortnight, while Jauja, starring Viggo Mortensen, was again featured in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, as was Eureka (2013), the result of years of work and production.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dos en la vereda (cm, 1995), La libertad (2001), Los muertos (2004), Fantasma (2006), Liverpool (2008), Lechuza (cm, 2009), Sin título (Carta para Serra) (cm, 2011), Jauja (2014), Eureka (2023), La libertad doble (2026).
Declaration
film director
“A few years back I received an email telling me that a close friend had been assassinated in a land far away from her place of birth. I was strongly disturbed and shocked by what had happened to her and I began to think of this story. […] I have devoted more space to words here, and to my own desires. Oddly enough, I feel that this film has come to me and taken its unreal form as a way of helping me to grasp the world and the time we live in, how we vanish in order to inexplicably return, in utterly mysterious ways.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Lisandro Alonso
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Lisandro Alonso, Fabian Casas
fotografia/cinematography
Timo Salminen
montaggio/film editing
Natalia López, Gonzalo del Val
scenografia/production design
Sebastián Roses
costumi/costume design
Gabriela Aurora Fernández
musica/music
Viggo Mortensen, Buckethead
suono/sound
Catriel Vildosola
interpreti/cast
Viggo Mortensen, Viilbjørk Mallin Agger, Ghita Nørby, Adrian Fondari, Esteban Bigliardi, Diego Roman, Mariano Arce, Misael Saavedra, Gabriel Marquez, Brian Patterson
produttori/producers
Ilse Hughan, Andy Kleinman, Viggo Mortensen, Sylvie Pialat, Jaime Romandia, Helle Ulsteen, Lisandro Alonso, Michael Weber, Ezequiel Borovinsky, Leandro Pugliese
produzione/production
4L, Fortuna Films, Kamoli Films, Les Films du Worso, Mantarraya Producciones, Massive, The Match Factory, Perceval Pictures, Wanka
Lisandro Alonso
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Lisandro Alonso, Fabian Casas
fotografia/cinematography
Timo Salminen
montaggio/film editing
Natalia López, Gonzalo del Val
scenografia/production design
Sebastián Roses
costumi/costume design
Gabriela Aurora Fernández
musica/music
Viggo Mortensen, Buckethead
suono/sound
Catriel Vildosola
interpreti/cast
Viggo Mortensen, Viilbjørk Mallin Agger, Ghita Nørby, Adrian Fondari, Esteban Bigliardi, Diego Roman, Mariano Arce, Misael Saavedra, Gabriel Marquez, Brian Patterson
produttori/producers
Ilse Hughan, Andy Kleinman, Viggo Mortensen, Sylvie Pialat, Jaime Romandia, Helle Ulsteen, Lisandro Alonso, Michael Weber, Ezequiel Borovinsky, Leandro Pugliese
produzione/production
4L, Fortuna Films, Kamoli Films, Les Films du Worso, Mantarraya Producciones, Massive, The Match Factory, Perceval Pictures, Wanka
contatti/contacts
NDM International Sales
Bianca Fontez
