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3 unusual facts about Cinema of Uruguay


Cinema of Uruguay

The following year, Eli Wallach accepted the leading role in a version adapted for American television.

The studio produced four well-received full-length dramas between 1946 and 1948, and reintroduced local audiences to Uruguayan drama film with Argentine Director Julio Saraceni's version of The Three Musketeers and Belisario García Villar's version of Italian novelist Luigi Pirandello's Come tu me vuoi.

Mario Handler's Carlos: Portrait of a Montevideo Panhandler represented a local form of Cinéma Vérité that drew on Uruguayan film makers' tradition as documentarians.


Daniel Hendler

Filmed in 2000 with a very low budget, the film revitalized the Uruguayan film and aided by the awards received in Europe (Best Film at the International Film Festival Rotterdam) marked the beginning of a new stage in the film scene of that country.


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