Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Ricardo Darín | ... | Fermín Perlassi | |
Chino Darín | ... | Rodrigo Perlassi | |
Luis Brandoni | ... | Antonio Fontana | |
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Daniel Aráoz | ... | Rolo Belaúnde |
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Verónica Llinás | ... | Lidia Perlassi |
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Carlos Belloso | ... | Atanasio Medina |
Rita Cortese | ... | Carmen Largio | |
Marco Antonio Caponi | ... | Hernán | |
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Alejandro Gigena | ... | Eladio Gómez |
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Guillermo Jacubowicz | ... | José Gómez |
Andrés Parra | ... | Fortunato Manzi | |
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Luciano Cazaux | ... | Alvarado |
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Ailín Zaninovich | ... | Florencia |
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José María Marcos | ... | Seoane |
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Germán Rodríguez | ... | Deluca |
August 2001, Alsina (east to Argentina, close to Atlantic Ocean). In a little town with absence of population and resources, former soccer player Fermín Pelassi and his wife Lidia decide to create a cooperative buying an abandoned silo to restore it and hire people to work, hoping to bring back the business Alsina. Talking between others with friends as aged Antonio Fontana (a self-declared anarchist and Bakunin's fan), train station chief Rolo Belaúnde, redneck expert in explosives Atanasio Medina, businesswoman Carmen Largio and the naive not-too-much-smart but lovely José and Eladio Gómez brothers, all they reunite an amount of 158,000 $. Not having a bank in Alsina, Fermín and Lidia travel the neighbor town of Villagrán to leave the money in a safe box trusting in Alvarado, bank manager, to keep it while they try to negotiate with silo's owner to reduce the original price of 300,000 $. Therefore, Alvarado convinces Fermín to change the money from the safe box to his own bank ... Written by Chockys
This is not the first nor it will be the last Argentinian film to play the role of educating people that had been under economic distress. the art of Argentinian cinema consists of telling through filming Argentina's history offering at the same time entertainment, consciousness and fictitious solutions to social dramas. Ricardo Darin is an actor representative of this type of film without losing the art of interpretation. In 2000, the Corallito was a bank determination issued by Argentina's government blocking all accounts to withdraw more than 50 dollars day. It created a havoc on common people savings. The screenplay develops a story where a group of Argentinian workers collects their savings to create a cooperative but the money ended up in the hands of a bank operator. They will organize themselves to get the money back no just for them but to their small town needy people.