Lost Embrace ( El Abrazo partido )

Lost Embrace (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: El Abrazo partido
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
100 min + 25 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Argentina ( Latin America, Mexico )
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Daniel Burman

Written By:
Marcelo Birmajer
Daniel Burman

Actors:
Daniel Hendler ..... Ariel Makaroff
Adriana Aizemberg ..... Sonia Makaroff
Jorge D'Elía ..... Elías Makaroff
Sergio Boris ..... Joseph Makaroff
Rosita Londner ..... Abuela de Ariel
Diego Korol ..... Mitelman
Silvina Bosco ..... Rita
Isaac Fajm ..... Osvado
Melina Petriella ..... Estela
Atilio Pozzobon ..... Saligani Papá
Mónica Cabrera ..... Saligani Mamá
Franco Tirri ..... Saligani Hijo
Luciana Dulizky ..... Saligani Hija
Eloy Burman ..... Saligani Bebé
Juan José Flores Quispe ..... Ramón

Synopsis:

Argentinean filmmaker Daniel Burman writes and directs the ensemble film El Abrazo Partido (Lost Embrace), a follow-up to his 2000 feature Waiting for the Messiah. Daniel Hendler plays Ariel, a young man who lives in a Jewish working-class section of Buenos Aires. Since his father went missing in the war, his mother Sonia (Adriana Aizenberg) and brother Joseph (Sergio Boris) work in the shopping and business district. With no interest in school or work, Ariel hangs out and sleeps with Rita (Silvina Bosco). He finally gets the idea to move to Poland, so asks his grandmother (Rosita Londner), ex-girlfriend Estela (Melina Petriella), and Rabbi Benderson (Norman Erlich) for help. Meanwhile, a host of characters make up Ariel's multicultural neighborhood. Cesar Lerner provides the musical score. Lost Embrace won two Silver Bear awards at the Berlin Film Festival in 2004.

This is Ariel's world: the small, slightly seedy shopping center in downtown Buenos Aires, where the Italian shopkeepers scream all day, the Koreans sell feng-shui and old Osvaldo sells nothing. Where Ariel's mother runs a lingerie shop and his brother deals in import-export. It's a comfortable little world, in spite of an undercurrent of malaise and uncertainty. Many young people are searching for their immigrant roots to obtain a coveted foreign passport, the key to a world full of promise. Ariel, however, wants more than a passport from Poland, where his grandparents fled to escape the Holocaust. He wants to understand. Why his father left his family shortly after his birth to fight a war in Israel. Why he never returned. And why this seems to leave his mother and brother indifferent...But the truth changes. And when Ariel's father returns, he brings with him new truths, a new story and, ultimately, a long-overdue embrace--one that had been lost for so long.

In Buenos Aires, the twenty and something year old Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff has left the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business, trying to get his Polish passport and move to Europe. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby to fight in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. When his father returns to Buenos Aires, Ariel discovers the reason why his father left his family.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 03 November, 2008.

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