Mirage d'amour avec fanfare (2016)

1925. In a mining town in the middle of nowhere in Chile. The daughter of an anarchist hairdresser falls deeply in love with a trumpeter. They will have to fight dictatorship in order to save their love.

Director:

Hubert Toint

Writer:

Bernard Giraudeau

Stars:

Marie Gillain, Jan Hammenecker, Eduardo Paxeco

Cast

Credited cast:
Marie Gillain	...	Hirondelle
Jan Hammenecker	...	Félimon
Eduardo Paxeco	...	Bello
Jean-François Stévenin	...	Alexandre
Andrea Zuckermann	...	La Metro Ochenta

Storyline

Pampa-Terminal is a saltpeter mine located in the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile, as well as being a home for its workers, executives and a few families. There is a chemist's, a theatre for the workers, a bakery, a butcher, and a Chinese man who sells fireworks and balloons that catch fire in the air. There are shops in the main shopping street. There are brothels in the brothel street. Everything is so simple in Pampa-Terminal. There is also a hairdresser's salon run by Alexandre Rivery - it is the place for union meetings. Alexander is an anarchist. In Pampa there are also guesthouses and taverns. It is also exactly like this in all the other mines across the Atacama Desert, which also have their own cemeteries and brass bands, their corrupt cops as well as their honest men and women. However, Pampa-Terminal is the town that the president has to pass through in order to declare the mine an "Official City". It will then be able to be marked on maps. But above all, Pampa-Terminal is ...

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Details

Country:

Belgium Chile Switzerland

Language:

Spanish French

Release Date:

10 February 2016 (Belgium)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, P.S. Productions, Saga Film (I)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Color:

Color

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