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DIRECTOR Malena Roncayolo PRODUCTION
CO CNAC SCREENPLAY Claudia Nazoa
CINEMATOGRAPHY Vitelbo Vazquez PRODUCER Thaelman Urgeles
EDITOR Julio Luzardo MUSIC Oscar Acevedo CAST
Juan Carlos Alarc�n, Armando Gutierrez, Mim� Lazo. 2002, Color, 106
min. Spanish with english subtitles.
Long ago in the small town of San Jorge,
repression mounts along with the preparations for Carnival. Then
12-year-old Abril Scheiber must watch as her telegrapher father is
carted away by the authorities; and must watch again as mom Mimi
Lazo must take tough and unforgivable? decisions for their own
survival, including accepting a tortured, passionate relationship
with her husband's jailor, sleazy military chief Luis Felipe Tovar.
But the fever of Carnival brings everything to a cataclysmic
conclusion in this poignant and painful coming-of-age story.
Largo tiempo atr�s en el peque�o pueblo de San
Jorge, la represi�n aumenta junto con los preparativos del Carnaval.
Luego la ni�a de 12 a�os Abril Scheiber debe ver c�mo su padre es
detenido y llevado por las autoridades; y debe observar, tambi�n
c�mo su madre Mim� Lazo debe tomar dif�ciles �e imperdonables?
decisiones para su propia supervivencia, incluso aceptando una
torturada y apasionada relaci�n con el carcelero de su esposo, el
ruin jefe militar Luis Felipe Tovar. Pero la fiebre del Carnaval
conduce todo a un final catastr�fico en esta historia dolorosa que
describe un verdadero rito de iniciaci�n.
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