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Rojo (2018)
NAME OF FILM: ROJO
DIRECTOR(S): Benjamín Naishtat
STARRING: Claudio Martínez Bel, Mara Bestelli, Alfredo Castro
GENRE: Drama Film
SYNOPSIS: Although never directly stating when this tragicomic story of the petit-bourgeois Claudio takes place, this 1970s-style thriller hints at the period just before the military coup in Argentina when people began to disappear by the thousands. Benjamín Naishtat’s second film won three awards at San Sebastián.
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