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COSTA RICA - Marasmus
Marasmus

A church full of refugees gets caught in the crossfire between guerillas and police. And then, seamstress Carolina Solano is joined on her bus trip to Barranquilla by Marcela Ugalde and her boyfriend, roving-eyed cop/paramilitary Bismarck Méndez, on a revenge mission for drug lords. But they've got a rendezvous with slimy guerilla César Meléndez and austere comandante Vinicio Rojas. Strikingly photographed—complete with copter shots—Costa Rican view of the Colombian tragedy, with plot and character surprises coming until the shattering climax.

Una iglesia llena de refugiados queda en medio del fuego cruzado entre la guerrilla y la policía. Luego, en un autobús que viaja a Barranquilla, la costurera Carolina Solano se encuentra con Marcela Ugalde y su novio, el mujeriego paramilitar Bismarck Méndez, que cumplen una misión de venganza para los narcos. Pero tienen una cita con el guerrillero asqueroso César Meléndez y el comandante austero Vinicio Rojas. Versión costarricense de la tragedia colombiana, con fotografía impresionante — hasta con imágenes filmadas desde un helicóptero— y sorpresas hasta el clímax devastador.

DIRECTOR Mauricio Mendiola PRODUCTION CO Procine S.A.PRODUCER Mauricio Mendiola SCREENPLAY Antonio Caballero and Mauricio Mendiola CINEMATOGRAPHY José Luis Ocejo EDITOR Andrés Rojas and Mauricio Mendiola ART DIRECTION Jorge Quesada MUSIC Nano Fernández and Fidel Gamboa CAST Carolina Solano, Bismarck Mendez, Vinecio Rojas, Marcela Ugalde, César Melendez and Pedro Sanchez. 2003, Color, 86 min, Spanish with subtitles.

 

 

 


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