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GARAGE OLIMPO

Un Certain Regard
Directed by :
Marco BECHIS 
Country:
ITALY, FRANCE, ARGENTINA
Duration:
98.00 minutes

Synopsis

Maria is a militant activist in an organisation opposed to the military dictatorship in Argentina. She teaches reading and writing in the shanty towns and lives with her mother in an old and run-down residence in which her mother rents out some of the rooms. One of the lodgers, Felix, a young and timid man, is in love with Maria. He seems to have no past nor family and he looks after a garage - at least this what he says. One morning, Maria is carried off, in front of her mother, by a military squad dressed in civilian clothes. The young woman is taken to the Olimpo garage, one of the numerous torture chambers which haunt Buenos Aires to the general indifference of the population. In order to make Maria talk, Tigre, the head of the centre, gives her to one of his best men: Felix, the lodger. She decides to go all out and bet everything. Her survival, her only hope of salvation is Felix, her torturer.
Marco BECHIS
Marco BECHIS

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The Official Selection 1999

Un Certain Regard