Cinema
Time for Revenge
Tiempo de revancha
Adolfo Aristarain · 1981
Synopsis
Pedro Bengoa, a former union delegate, gets himself hired as a blaster at a Patagonian mine of the Tulsaco company, according to Tiempo Argentino and Film Comment. There he meets Bruno Di Toro, a former comrade in struggle, who persuades him to stage an explosion made to look like an accident in order to extract compensation from the company; the plan is also attributed to the lawyer Larsen. Federico Luppi and Ulises Dumont play the roles.
Context
Released on 30 July 1981, under the dictatorship, the film stayed in cinemas for more than twenty-two weeks, according to Tiempo Argentino, which recalls that its director, under contract with Aries, had just made two successful films. The film received the first prize at the Havana festival, the Grand Prix des Amériques in Montreal and six Silver Condors in 1982, including those for direction and screenplay. It was shown again in Hamburg in 2010 and at the Buenos Aires independent film festival in 2013.
Who it is for
A film noir in Spanish of one hundred and twelve minutes, about a worker, a company and a compensation payment to be wrested from it.
Prizes and reception
Awarded prizes in Havana and Montreal; a lasting success in cinemas under the military regime.
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