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Film · 2000

Our Lady of the Assassins

Original titleLa virgen de los sicarios

Directed by Barbet Schroeder · starring Anderson Ballesteros and Barbet Schroeder

  • 1 h 41 min

Synopsis

'Our Lady of the Assassins' tells the story of Fernando, a 50-year-old man that goes back to Medellin, Colombia, after a long time out; and Alexis, a young man with whom he has a romance and has an active life in the crime world. One they, Alexis is fatally wounded by other members of the local mafia. Fernando, consumed in grievance, starts his search of his lover's killer in the city suburbs. In this moment, Medellín was known all around the world as the planet's crime capital, due to the rising figure of Pablo Escobar and his cartel. This is a love story, a crime story and a death story, of a man that loses the person he loves the most in the world and has to keep up wit a boy that just resembles physically Alexis.

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The essentials

Runtime
101 min1 hour and 41 minutes
How long is Our Lady of the Assassins?
1 hour and 41 minutes (101 minutes).
Who directed Our Lady of the Assassins?
Barbet Schroeder.
Who is in Our Lady of the Assassins?
It stars Anderson Ballesteros and Barbet Schroeder.
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Director
Barbet Schroeder
Producers
Barbet Schroeder

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What the critics say 7.5, from one outlet

  • 7.5 CriticEdward Guthmann (It) is the story of a man in search of himself through the love of another. When the object of his love is lost, he searches for a duplicate and, having found it, projects all the qualities of the… Read

Soundtrack

All 19 songs
  1. Amar y vivirLeo Marini Spotify
  2. Dulce AventuraLeo Marini Spotify
  3. Matilde LinaLisandro Meza Spotify
  4. Fiesta de NegritosLucho Bermúdez Spotify

Trivia

  • Venice

    In 2000 it was granted the Golden Medal of the Senate Presidency.

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