Iluminados por el fuego

original title:
Iluminados por el fuego
other titles:
Enlightened by Fire
country / year of production:
Argentina , Spain / 2005 (x)
original length:
103 min. , color
premiere:
8 September 2005
genre:
melodrama
based on:
Edgardo Esteban/ Gustavo Romero Borri. Iluminados por el fuego. Confesiones de un soldado que combatió en Malvinas. Buenos Aires: Ed. Sudamericana, 1993.
director:
Tristán Bauer
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plot synopsis:
Esteban Leguizamòn, a 40-year old man, remembers the time when he was just 18. Caused by the suicide of a former comrade he remmbers the year 1982: with just 18 he was drwan-in to fight at the Falkland Islands. The pictures of that time come back: Vargas, who killed himself and Juan, who was killed in the fight. Not only hunger, cold and cruelity of war are part of his memories, also lost friendship and comrades take place in it.
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Homepage: http://www.iluminadosporelfuego.com/iluminados_flash.php?lang=en

Won an award at the "San Sebastián International Film Festival" in 2005.
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