35° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
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LA CORDILLERA

THE SUMMIT
by Santiago Mitre
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Year: 2017
Duration: 114'


At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile, where the region’s geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Hernán Blanco endures a political and family drama that will force him to face his own demons. He will have to come to two decisions that could change the course of his public and private life forever: one regarding a complicated emotional situation with his daughter, and the other, the most important political decision of his career.

Biography

film director

Santiago Mitre

(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1980) studied at the Universidad del cine (FUC). In 2004, he codirected with Alejandro Fadel, Martin Mauregui, and Juan Schnitman, Love, part one, feature presented at BAFICI and Venice Film Critics’ Week. In 2006 he started to write for film and television. He wrote three features for Pablo Trapero, such as Leonera, which was in competition in Cannes in 2008. In 2011, he cofounded the production company La unión de los ríos and produced his first feature, El estudiante. The film participated in more than thirty festivals and won numerous awards such as Locarno’s Special Jury Prize at Cineasti del presente. His second feature, La patota, won the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes in 2015 and Best Female Performance for Dolores Fonzi at Torino Film Festival. La cordillera (2017), written with the usual collaborator Mariano Llinás, participated at Un Certain regard in Cannes, while the following Argentina, 1985 (2022), the first South American film produced by Amazon, was in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

El amor (1a parte) (coregia Alejandro Fadel, Martin Mauregui, Juan Schnitman, 2004), El estudiante (2011), Los posibles (coregia Juan Onofri Barbato, mm, 2013), La patota (2015), La cordillera (Il presidente, 2017), Pequeña flor (2022), Argentina, 1985 (id., 2022).

Declaration

film director

“My two previous films had connections to politics already: El estudiante was a story of political discovery, and La patota depicted the engagement with politics of a young woman whose life was turned upside down by a tragic event. I wanted to go even further with La cordillera and create a portrait of a major political figure; a man whose profession is politics. I wanted his public and private lives to face off against each other, to show the man behind the politician.” 

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Santiago Mitre
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Santiago Mitre, Mariano Llinás
fotografia/cinematography
Javier Julia
montaggio/film editing
Nicolás Goldbart
scenografia/production design
Sebastián Orgambide
costumi/costume design
Sonia Grande
musica/music
Alberto Iglesias
suono/sound
Santiago Fumagalli
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Ricardo Darin (Hernán Blanco), Dolores Fonzi (Marina Blanco), Erica Rivas (Luisa Cordero), Elena Anaya (Claudia Klein), Daniel Giménez Cacho (Sebastián Sastre), Paulina García (Paula Scherson), Gerardo Romano (Castex), Alfredo Castro (Desiderio García), Christian Slater (Dereck Mc Kinley)
produzione/production
K&S Films, Maneki Films, La unión de los riós, Mod Producciones

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contatti/contacts
Film Factory
Manon Barat
manon@filmfactory.es
www.filmfactoryentertainment.com
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