- EXTENDED SYNOPSIS
Juan Villegas (52 años) ha trabajado en la estación de servicio de unasolitaria ruta patagónica durante los últimos veinte años de su vida. Laestación ha sido vendida y los nuevos dueños piensan en modernizarla. Juan,junto con otros empleados, es despedido. Vive el drama de la desocupación en suaspecto más trágico: con la edad que tiene y sin especialización alguna,comienza a entender que ha sido descartado del mundo. La casualidad lo lleva ahacer un pequeño trabajo de reparación de un viejo vehículo en una estancia. Ladueña, una señora mayor, necesita vender el auto de su difunto marido, porquetambién está en aprietos económicos. Cuando Juan finaliza el trabajo, ellaofrece pagarle con un perro que no es un perro cualquiera, sino un estupendoejemplar de dogo. Juan intenta negarse aduciendo que, con semejante tamaño, elperro debe comer más que él. Sin embargo la viuda insiste y termina porconvencerlo. A partir de ahí la suerte de Juan comienza a cambiar.
Juan Villegas (52 years old) has worked in a service station on a lonelyPatagonian road for the past twenty years of his life. The station has changedhands and the new owners are thinking of modernizing. Juan, as well as otheremployees, is sacked. Finding himself without an occupation is a real tragedyfor him; at his age and without any specialization he begins to feel he hasbeen rejected by the world. Then by chance he does a small repair job on an oldvehicle in a station. The owner, an elderly lady, needs to sell her latehusband’s car because she’s also in economic straits. When Juan finishes thejob she offers to pay him with a dog but this is not just any old dog, it is asplendid example of a mastiff. Juan tries to refuse considering that such a bigdog must eat more than he does. However the widow insists and ends upconvincing him. From then on Juan’s luck begins to change.
- CAST
Performance | Name | Role |
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Cast | Villegas, Juan | Coco |
Cast | Donado, Walter | Walter |
Cast | 'Gregorio' De Nueva Córdoba | Le Chien |
Cast | Estévez, Micol | Gracielita |
Cast | Ca, Kita | Señora de la estancia |
Cast | Condito, Pascual | Pascual |
Cast | Fazzini, Claudina | Claudina |
Cast | Rossi, Carlos | El Gerente |
Cast | Díaz, Mariela | La hija |
- CREW
Performance | Name | Notes |
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Production | Krámer, Óscar | |
Directed by | Sorín, Carlos | |
Co-Production | Sigman, Hugo | |
Co-Production | Morales, José María | |
Production Manager | Acosta, Marcelo | |
Screenplay | Calori, Santiago | |
Screenplay | Roselli, Salvador | |
Screenplay | Sorín, Carlos | |
Plot | Basado En Una Idea Original De Carlos Sorín | |
Cinematography | Colace Adf, Hugo | |
Score | Sorín, Nicolás | |
Film Editing | Rajid, Mohamed | |
Production Design - Art Direction | Jusid, Margarita | |
Costume | Fisherman, Ruth | |
Sound Mixer | Piputto, Rubén | |
Sound | Abbate & Díaz | |
Re-recording mixer | Montrasi, Martín | |
Assistant Director | Eslava, Cecilia | |
Assistant Director | Cristi, Leticia | |
Assistant Director | Levy, Carla | |
Casting | Mahler, Mario | |
Camera Operators | Sahade, Rafael |
- FILM & TRAILER RATINGS
Film Rating | Duration | Certification |
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GENERAL AUDIENCES | 101 min. | 10/8/2004 |
Trailer Rating | Runtime | Certification |
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GENERAL AUDIENCES | 3 min. seg. | 9/20/2004 |
- PUBLIC GRANTS
Grant | Amount |
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Grants - Amortisation of Feature Films - General | 36,850.85 € |
Grants - Distribution of Feature Films | 30,000.00 € |
- CREW
Tag | Information |
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Year of the Spanish Films Catalogue | 2004 |
Production year | 2004 |
Length | Largometraje |
Film Formats | 35 mm. |
Running time | 101 minutos |
Original footage | 2.750 metros |
Sound Studios | Abbate & Díaz (Postproducción y edición de sonido) |
Sound Studios | Tauro Digital (Mezclas) |
Emulsion | Eastmancolor |
Aspect ratio | Panorámico 1:1,85 |
Laboratories | Cinecolor (Argentina) |
- Film Info
Tag | Information |
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Star-up shooting date | 11/3/2003 |
Ending shooting date | 12/30/2003 |
Locations | Argentina - (Days: 38) |
- Other Titles of the Movie
Tag | Information |
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Other titles | El perro (Argentina) |
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- DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES & INFO






- Festivals and Awards
Awards | Section | Person / Company |
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Festival Internacional De Cine De San Sebastián 2004 | Premio FIPRESCI Sección Oficial |