The South (1988) ( Sur ) ( Le sud )

The South (1988) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Sur
Alternate Title: Le sud
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
127 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1988 and produced in:
Argentina ( Latin America, Mexico )
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Fernando E. Solanas

Written By:
Fernando E. Solanas

Actors:
Susú Pecoraro ..... Rosi Echegoyen
Miguel Ángel Solá ..... Floreal Echgoyen
Philippe Léotard ..... Roberto
Lito Cruz ..... El Negro
Ulises Dumont ..... Emilio
Roberto Goyeneche ..... Amado
Gabriela Toscano ..... Blondi
Mario Lozano ..... Echegoyen
Nathán Pinzón ..... Rasatti
Antonio Ameijeiras ..... Peregrino
Inés Molina ..... María (as Inés Molina Villafañe)
Fito Páez ..... Marcelo
Niní Gambier ..... Adela
Chany Mallo ..... La mère de Floreal
Susana Mayo ..... Cora

Synopsis:

Like Solanas' previous film Tangos (1985), South is a film about a forced exile (in the form of imprisonment) and a painful reunion in the midst of political turmoil. It is also a story about the healing power of nostalgia. The story is set in 1983 just after the fall of the military dictatorship and the restoration of the democracy. For the past five years, Floreal has been a political prisoner. He is released in the evening, but rather than returning straight home to his wife Rosi, he decides to wander around to gather his thoughts and sort through his mixed emotions concerning not only the deaths of his closest friends, but also the lonely, long-suffering Rosi's affair with Floreal's best friend Roberto. Everything in his old neighborhood has changed dramatically and as Floreal aimlessly wanders, a dense fog blankets the political pamphlet covered streets, lending a dreamlike atmosphere to the night. Occasionally, he is visited by the ghosts of former friends and co-workers. Meanwhile, Rosi nervously waits in her bedroom for Floreal to return.

The painful reunion of a couple torn apart when the husband was imprisoned for subversive activities. Now five years later in 1983, he is liberated, but has a nightlong reckoning with himself and his past, before he feels able to go home.

When, after five years in an Argentine prison, a man is released by the new democratic government he must come to terms with the changes that have taken place within both himself and his country.

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