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Common Ground
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Common Ground

Oct 4, 2002
1h 50m
★ 7.8

It's never too late to begin again.

Overview

In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Adolfo Aristarain
INCAA
Tornasol Media
TVE

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Cast

Federico Luppi

Fernando Robles

Federico Luppi

Mercedes Sampietro

Liliana Rovira

Mercedes Sampietro

Arturo Puig

Carlos Solla

Arturo Puig

Carlos Santamaría

Pedro Robles

Carlos Santamaría

Valentina Bassi

Natacha

Valentina Bassi

Claudio Rissi

Demedio

Claudio Rissi

Osvaldo Santoro

Principal

Osvaldo Santoro

José Luis Alfonzo

José Luis Alfonzo

Yael Barnatán

Fabiana

Yael Barnatán

Graciela Tenenbaum

Graciela Tenenbaum

María Fiorentino

Tutti Tudela

María Fiorentino

Pepe Soriano

Farm seller

Pepe Soriano

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