Declamation

Aug 6, 2022

0h 19m

★ 7.0

A short film about the birth of thinking

Overview

After crossing the line and eating from the forbidden fruit, Gringa feels that she is being monitored by someone else. Soon she will encounter herself with the happiness, love, hate and violence that exists in the small utopic island she lives in, portraying a character she is not, and under the gaze of someone else.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Fantasy

Production Companies

ACT Productions

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Cast

Gringa

Carmen Fillol

Máximo

Facundo Sirimarco

Gringa (Czech translation)

Julieta Quiroga

Máximo (Czech translation)

Francisco Guido Massari

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Declamation

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