Gatica, el mono (1993)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Leonardo Favio

Writers:

Leonardo Favio (writer)
Jorge Zuhair Jury (writer)

Release Date:

13 May 1993 (Argentina)

Genre:

Biography | Drama

Plot Keywords:

Argentina | Boxer

Awards:

6 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Edgardo Nieva	...	Gatica
Horacio Taicher	...	El Ruso
Juan Costa	...	Jesús Gatica
María Eva Gatica	...	Madre
Kika Child	...	Ema
Virginia Innocenti	...	Nora
Adolfo Yanelli	...	El Rosarino
Eduardo Cutuli	...	Fioravanti (as Cutuli)
Cecilia Cenci	...	Evita
Armando Capo	...	Perón
Erasmo Olivera	...	Gatiquita
Jorge Baza de Candia	...	Gordo Cantina
Martín Andrade	...	Don Lázaro
Silvia Parotti	...	Italianita
Andrés Consiglio	...	Rusito

Runtime:

136 min

Country:

Argentina

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Spain:13

Filming Locations:

Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina

Company:

Choila S.r.l.

Trivia:

Argentina's official selection for the 1993 Oscar Awards, Foreign Language film category. However, it was pulled out of the competition by director Leonardo Fabio himself as form of complaint about the problems of the film industry.

Makes Raging Bull look like a kindergarden film.

I saw this film in Argentina in 1995 on television. This film is perhaps one of the greatest boxing and biopic film ever made in my opinion.

Even if you're not a boxing fan, You'll enjoy the beautiful color this film was photographed in. This film tells the story of an Argentinian boxer who becomes famous and falls faster than the Jake Lamotta character in Raging Bull. Add to all of this the historical background Gatica takes place in. In one of the more amazing scenes I have ever seen the character of Gatica has just lost his son but is more grief stricken by the death of Eva Peron who he has just visted on her death bed. Gatica is a socially detached character who seems to function according to his own rules. He is a womanizer and a brute but the film unlike Raging Bull does not ask us to judge him but to feel what he feels. Gatica is swept up by history even though according to himself he was'nt even that good and did'nt even want to fight. You have to admire the director who makes a Film and not some boring "Playhouse" drama. The film answers some of the toughest questions posed by visual planning scenes out and some great editing and music soundtrack which takes you through the times of 1940's & 50's.