Title: Heroic Losers
Original Title: La Odisea de los Giles
Year: 2019
Info
- Country: Argentina Spain
- Length: 110 Minutes (1 hour 50 min)
- Genre: Drama
- Studios: MOD Producciones Televisión Española (TVE)
- Distributor: Alfa Pictures
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Lizze Broadway: "Hay pocas series que le echen más huevos que Gen V"
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London Thor: "La segunda temporada de 'Gen V' es mejor que la primera"
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas: "Me aterraba estar cubierta de tomate 12 horas al día"
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Vonda Shepard sobre el fenómeno 'Ally McBeal': "Pasaron muchas cosas picantes"
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Jerry Bruckheimer: "Sin Lewis Hamilton, 'F1: La película' no habría sido tan buena"
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Milena Smit: "'Los sin nombre' no se casa solamente con lo sobrenatural"
Plot
Adapted from the novel 'La noche de la Usina' by Eduardo Sacheri, the author behind the novel on which 'The Secret in Their Eyes' is based, comes this film set in the Argentinian region of Buenos Aires in 2001, during the economic crisis that rocked the country.
In one town, a group of neighbours unite in order to save the area's farming cooperative. Despite the arduous challenge, they have nothing to lose and are hopeful that, as well as opening up jobs for many people in the town, the cooperative could be rented out, earning them a considerable sum of money. Profit starts to flood in and the money begins to be distributed around the different families of the town when, suddenly, everything threatens to crumble around them. The town is horrified to discover that their lawyer and the manager of the bank in which they had keep all of their incomes and savings have defrauded them and stolen all of their money.
As poverty threatens to rear its ugly head once more, the neighbours must unite again to uncover their money is being stored before hatching a plan to recover what is rightfully theirs. Sebastián Borensztein ('Chinese Take-Out') directs, andRicardo Darín ('An Unexpected Love'), Luis Brandoni ('My Masterpiece'), Chino Darín ('El Angel') and Verónica Llinás ('La flor') star.
Awards
- 2020 Goya Awards: 1 1
Cast
Director:
Videos
Teaser Trailer 'La Odisea de los Giles'
July 23 2019
Photos
Trivia
Oscar candidate
Official submission of Argentina for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020.
Third time together
This is the third film in which the actor Ricardo Darín works with the director Sebastián Borensztein, after 'Capitán Kóblic (2016) and 'Un cuento chino' (2011)
San Sebastian
The film was selected to participate in the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
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