The Airship (1994)
"El dirigible" (original title)

A French woman arrives in Montevideo, to meet poet Juan Carlos Onetti and investigate the story of the city. She is intrigued by the photograph of the day when president Bordaz was killed ... See full summary »

Director:

Pablo Dotta

Writer:

Pablo Dotta

Stars:

Ricardo Espalter, Laura Schneider, Marcelo Buquet

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview:
Ricardo Espalter	...	Police detective
Laura Schneider	...	The French woman
Marcelo Buquet	...	The Photographer
Gonzalo Cardoso	...	The drug dealer
Eduardo Miglionico	...	Veterinary student

Storyline

A French woman arrives in Montevideo, to meet poet Juan Carlos Onetti and investigate the story of the city. She is intrigued by the photograph of the day when president Bordaz was killed and a zeppelin flew above the city at the turn of the century. She is helped by a photographer and both fall into a police intrigue.

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Plot Keywords:

zeppelin | assassination | allegory | uruguayan history | uruguay

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Taglines:

"Montevideo es un lugar muy lejos, donde no puedo mentir y alguien siempre me está esperando" J.C. Onetti

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Genres:

Comedy | History

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Details

Country:

Italy France UK Mexico Cuba Uruguay USA

Language:

French Spanish

Also Known As:

The Dirigible

Filming Locations:

Easthampton, Massachusetts, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

CICV, Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), Channel Four Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Color:

Black and White Color

User Reviews

The death of a famous uruguayan writer, unleashes a strange search for the missing last interview he gave, before his disappearance

A fascinating, often surrealistic tale, where various excentric and mysterious characters struggle to resolve (or not) a mystery that links the death of one of Uruguay´s most famous exiled poets and the suicide, at the beginning of the century, of an ex president of that Republic. Among the characters, a french reporter join forces with a translator and a juvenile delicuent named "Moco", to find the lost last interview that the poet gave before dying. A strange and often puzzling film in which the atmosphere sometimes turns more important than the plot itself. This was the first movie to be filmed in Uruguay in almost two decades.