Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Daniel Giménez Cacho | ... | Zama | |
Lola Dueñas | ... | Luciana | |
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Matheus Nachtergaele | ... | Vicuña Porto / Soldado Gaspar Toledo |
Juan Minujín | ... | Ventura Prieto | |
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Nahuel Cano | ... | Fernández |
Mariana Nunes | ... | Malemba | |
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Carlos Defeo | ... | El Oriental |
Rafael Spregelburd | ... | Capitán Parrilla | |
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Carlos Cano | ... | Guardia |
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Jorge Román | ... | Reo |
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Gustavo Böhm | ... | Gobernador I |
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Massamba Seye | ... | Mensajero I |
Germán de Silva | ... | Indalecio | |
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Vicenzo Navarro Rindel | ... | Hijo Oriental |
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Dolores Ocampo | ... | Amanda |
Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. Written by UCR Arts
Poor Don Diego de Gama. Both parents Spanish, but he's never been to Spain, as he is frequently snobbily reminded by the Spanish-born residents in his 1790s Argentina back country town. He's a bureacrat serving a king 6000 miles away, unable to decide anything by himself, a fish in water (in a ruling metaphor) who can't live in a wet place. He wants to leave but can't, because everything is on hold. Will a military expedition bail him out? Bitterly totally ironic, structured around off camera sounds that are never what hearers think they are. I'm now hunting down the 1956 novel by Antonio_di_Benedetto.