Cinema
Los chicos de la guerra
Bebe Kamin · 1984
Synopsis
Three young people from different social classes are sent to the Falkland Islands in 1982, according to La Voz de San Justo. According to La Izquierda Diario, the story opens after the defeat and goes back over their childhood; the film also follows what the war did to each of them. Héctor Alterio, Ulises Dumont and Miguel Ángel Solá are in the cast.
Context
Released on 2 August 1984, the film was drawn from the book of interviews that Daniel Kon had gathered from young soldiers, and Kon wrote it for the most part with the director. Shot in sixteen millimetre, it was blown up for cinemas. La Izquierda Diario reports a demonstration in front of the Monumental cinema on the day of release and more than seven hundred thousand viewers. La Razón found the combat scenes implausible.
Who it is for
A drama in Spanish of an hour and forty-five minutes, in three destinies, about the generation sent to the Falklands.
Prizes and reception
Shared Colón de Oro at the Huelva festival in 1984 and a special mention in Havana.
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