Iluminados por el fuego (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Tristán Bauer

Escritores:

Tristán Bauer (writer)
Miguel Bonasso (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

8 septiembre 2005 (Argentina)

Género:

Aventura | Drama | Guerra

Plot:

The suicide of an old soldier buddy brings up some old memories for an Argentinian man.

Plot Keywords:

Argentina | Journalist | Hospital | Falkland Islands | Memory

Premios:

14 wins & 8 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Playing of War with Human Lives

Reparto

Gastón Pauls	...	Esteban Leguizamón
Pablo Riva	...	Alberto Vargas
César Albarracín	...	Juan Chamorro
Víctor Hugo Carrizo	...	Pizarro
Virginia Innocenti	...	Marta / Maria Vargas
Juan Leyrado
Arturo Bonín
Jon Lucas	...	Doblajes
Mario Chaparro
Tony Lestingi
Carlos Garmendia	...	Doblaje
Lautaro Delgado
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Miguel Oscar Acuna
Marcos Damian Alias
Gabriel Casal
Nestor Cordoba
Juan De Lima
Mauro Espinoza
Gabriel Fernandez
Guillermo Flores
Leonardo Mendietta
Claudio Pereyra
Ronald Reagan	...	Himself (archive footage)
Julio Roberto Rios
Tony Smith
René Soto
Margaret Thatcher	...	Herself (archive footage)
Damian Valdez
Esteban Vera
Eduardo Villalba

También conocida como:

Blessed by Fire (USA) (festival title)

Duración:

100 min

País:

Argentina | Spain

Idioma:

Inglés | Español

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Argentina:13 | New Zealand:R13

Locaciones de Filmación:

Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina

Compañía:

Canal+ España

Trivialidades:

Leguizamón mentions that over 290 veterans had committed suicide after the war, and indicates that this is the same as the name number of casualties there during the war. Argentine casualties during the war totalled 649, of which 321 were killed when the Admiral Belgrano was sunk. If Leguizamón was counting only the casualties on the Falklands themselves, his figure is roughly correct. Source: Wikipedia

Errores:

Continuidad: The sweat patterns on Leguizamón's jacket change in the two shots immediately after he leaves the infirmary.

Playing of War with Human Lives

When the journalist Esteban Leguizamón (Gastón Pauls) receives a phone call from his acquaintance Marie, he goes to the hospital and finds that his former friend of the Malvinas War Alberto Vargas (Pablo Ribba) tried to commit suicide. Marie, who was married with Vargas, tells Esteban that the veteran Vargas has never recovered from the period he served in Islas Malvinas in 1982 and was extremely depressed in the last days. Esteban realizes that more than two hundred and ninety veterans from the war against the English troops had committed suicide and he recalls the tough period he fought in Malvinas with Vargas and Juan (Cesar Albarracin), reviving the ghost from his past and opening deep wounds he had forgotten.

In 1982, the Argentinean Military Government decided to send troops to retrieve the Islas Malvinas from England that occupied the islands in 1833. However the true intention of the military junta was to divert the Argentineans and increase their popularity, raising the sense of nationality with an ancient issue. The Argentinean soldiers were sent without the necessary supplies, suitable clothing, outfits and training, being easily defeated after two months of starvation, cold and fight against the British forces. "Iluminados Por el Fuego" shows the poor conditions of the Argentinean soldiers in Malvinas and the effect of this war in the young soldiers that survived the irresponsibility and cruelty of their leaders that decided to play of war, transforming them in psychologically destroyed men. Tristán Bauer certainly had a limited budget for the battles scenes, and he successfully uses a chaotic sequence to represent how these battles probably might have been. In the end, he gives a great anti-war message and states that the Isla Malvinas belong to the Argentinean people. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Iluminados Pelo Fogo" ("Lightened by Fire")