Patagonia

Jun 10, 2010

1h 59m

★ 5.6

Overview

Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through the Argentine autumn.

Genres

Drama

Adventure

Production Companies

Rainy Day Films

Redrum Films

S4C

Ffilm Cymru Wales

Wales Creative IP Fund

Patagonia Trailers

Cast

Mateo

Matthew Rhys

Cerys

Marta Lubos

Alejandro

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

Gwen

Nia Roberts

Rhys

Matthew Gravelle

Martin

Rhys Parry Jones

Sissy

Duffy

Diego

Marco Antonio Caponi

Eleonara

Gabriela Ferrero

Old Mr. Roberts

Stewart Jones

Marta

Claudia Cantero

Rhodri

Rhodri Meilir

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