Lion's Den ( Leonera )

Lion's Den (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Leonera
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Argentina ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
113 min + Extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Anamorphic Widescreen
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
Argentina ( Latin America, Mexico )
Brazil ( Latin America, Mexico )
South Korea ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Pablo Trapero

Written By:
Alejandro Fadel
Martín Mauregui

Actors:
Martina Gusman ..... Julia
Elli Medeiros ..... Sofia
Rodrigo Santoro ..... Ramiro
Laura García ..... Marta
Tomás Plotinsky ..... Tomás VI (as Tomas Plotinsky)
Leonardo Sauma ..... Ugo Casman
Walter Cignoli ..... Perito Psicólogo
Roberto Maciel ..... Abogado de Oficio
Ricardo Ragendorfer ..... Juez de Instrucción (as Ricardo Raguendorfer)
Clara Sajnovetzky ..... Elsa

Synopsis:

Writer/director Pablo Trapero crafts this tender tale of an incarcerated woman who gives birth to a baby boy, struggling to raise her son behind bars as she comes to the bleak realization that he is the only one who matters to her anymore. It all started when a pregnant Julia woke up in her apartment flanked by the bloodied bodies of her former lovers Nahuel and Romiro. Subsequently sent to a prison for mothers and pregnant convicts, Julia railed against the system by withdrawing into her own world. Upon giving birth Julia realizes just how difficult it can be to raise a son in prison, but each day her feelings for the boy swell stronger within her. Later, when Julia pays a visit to Romiro in the men's prison, it becomes obvious that the couple's feelings for one another are just as muddled as the events of that fateful night back in Julia's apartment.

In Buenos Aires, the independent college student Julia Zárate awakes in her apartment with gore everywhere, her lover Nahuel stabbed, and his lover Ramiro covered with blood but still alive. Julia is pregnant and is sent to a special prison wing with mothers and pregnant prisoners to wait for trial. Julia befriends Marta, who has two children and helps her to understand motherhood and life in prison. Julia delivers Tomás and her mother tries to kidnap her grandson, causing a rebellion in Julia's wing. When Ramiro, who was also Julia's lover, accuses her of murdering Nahuel, her expectation of raising Tomás is hampered.

Julia, a 25 year-old university student, two weeks pregnant, with no criminal record, is sent to prison. Julia murdered two men; one, the father of her child. This story addresses maternity, jail and Justice; confinement, guilt and solitude; but above all it deals with Julia and her son, Tomas, born inside an Argentinean prison.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 21 January, 2010.

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