32° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TFFDOC/ITALIANA.DOC

PODER E IMPOTENCIA, UN DRAMA EN 3 ACTOS

POWER AND IMPOTENCE, A DRAMA IN 3 ACTS
by Anna Recalde Miranda
Country: Paraguay, France, Italy
Year: 2014
Duration: 100'


Fernando Lugo, a former bishop of Liberation Theology, wins the elections in Paraguay in 2008. After sixty-one years of a single party, thirty-five of which under the fascist dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, his victory represents the dream for true, wide-ranging change. But politics isn’t made for saints, and the dream turns into a nightmare.

Biography

film director

Anna Recalde Miranda

Anna Recalde Miranda (Italy) is an Italian-Paraguayan filmmaker. She graduated in media sociology from the University of Bologna and has directed and produced various news reports and documentaries. Her first documentary, Lonco/Chupasesos, Histories of Imagineries, won numerous prizes, including the critics’ award at the 2006 Genova Film Festival, while La tierra sin mal won the fourth edition of the documentary festival Hai Visto Mai? in 2008.

FILMOGRAFIA

Lonco/Chupasesos, Histories of Imagineries (cm, doc., 2005), The Invisible Grand Machine (cm), Historias de Guatemala (coregia/codirector Nicola Grignani, mm, doc., 2009), La tierra sin mal (doc., 2008), Poder e impotencia, un drama en 3 actos (doc., 2014). 

Declaration

film director

“Poder e impotencia, un drama en 3 actos is a Shakespearian drama about power. It is the story of three men who achieve the highest political offices to change the system from the inside. Set in a surreal Paraguay, this political thriller follows the adventures of our heroes from an unusual point of view, behind the scenes, with hope and disappointment, and over a stretch of time that goes from the beginning of the ‘government of change’ to the coup in June 2012. A unique historical period, documented in an intimate and universal film about the meaning and the limits of politics and democracy.”

Cast

& Credits

regia, produttore/director, producer
Anna Recalde Miranda
fotografia/cinematography
Nicola Grignani, Anna Recalde Miranda
montaggio/film editing
Anna Recalde Miranda, Andrea Gandolfo, Glenn Felix
suono/sound
German Acevedo
coproduzione/coproduction
Blackmoon Productions, La compagnie des Phares et Balises
contatti/contacts
Anna Recalde Miranda
recaldemiranda@gmail.com
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