El abrazo partido (2004)

Director:

Daniel Burman

Writers:

Marcelo Birmajer (writer)
Daniel Burman (writer)

Release Date:

25 March 2004 (Argentina)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

In Buenos Aires, the twenty and something year old Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff has left the University...

Plot Keywords:

Gallery | Passport | Yom Kippur War | Ex Girlfriend | Grandmother Grandson Relationship

Awards:

10 wins & 10 nominations

Cast

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	...	Osvaldo
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

Also Known As:

Lost Embrace (International: English title) (USA)
El abrazo partido (Spain)
El abrazo partido: L'abbraccio perduto (Italy)
Le fils d'Elias (France)

Runtime:

Argentina:99 min | USA:100 min

Country:

Argentina | France | Italy | Spain

Language:

Spanish | Korean | Yiddish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:Not Rated | Canada:PG | UK:15 | Belgium:KT | Australia:M | Denmark:7 | Japan:PG-12 | Argentina:Atp | Brazil:14 | France:U | Italy:T | Poland:15 | Spain:T | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Netherlands:AL | Chile:14

Filming Locations:

Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina

Company:

BD Cine

Trivia:

It is Argentina's official choice for the 2004 Oscar Awards, Foreign Language film category.

Goofs:

Factual errors: There is no Lithuanian language in the film. The girl from Lithuania named Vilna (Lithuania's capital name is Vilnius) is speaking Russian, not Lithuanian. The words Vilna says when she first meets Ariel are "Tvoi drug Ariel. Chto s nim sluchilos?", what means "Your friend Ariel. What's wrong with him?"

Movie Connections:

Features I girasoli (1970)

Soundtrack:

I Libe Heim

Slice of life should have been better

This slice of life is set on the old commercial neighborhood of Once in Buenos Aires, right after Argentina's economic crisis of 2001. Set mostly among the Jewish community in the neighborhood (though members of other communities, like Bolivians and Koreans, also appear), the main protagonist is Ariel Makaroff, a twenty something guy, who helps his mother run a lingerie shop in a galeria (that is, a very seedy and shabby department store). His father having emigrated to Israel years ago to fight one of the wars there, Ariel longs to emigrate to the developed world, specifically Poland, ironically from where his grandmother escaped sixty years ago because of antisemitism. To impress the Polish consul in order to get the passport, the Jewish man tries to name several famous Poles, but can only come up with the (then) Pope. This movie tries to paint the life of a middle class whose dreams of upscale progress became shattered after recurrent economic crisis, but it ends up being less interesting than it should be; still, a not totally bad effort.