El Premio = The Prize
Barcode: 58961583
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 115 min.
Date: 2011
Language: Spanish
Creator: Directed by Paula Markovitch
Description:
"Under the cloud of a military dictatorship, a young mother and her daughter flee Buenos Aires for the seclusion of a ramshackle cottage along the windy dunes of an Argentine beach. As her mother listens for news from the radio with sad stoicism, restlessly curious seven-year-old Cecilia joins a nearby school overseen by a kindly teacher. A childhood idyll, however, soon becomes contaminated by the general political crisis, as the teacher recruits the class for a patriotic essay contest sponsored by the army—the very people that may have already disappeared Cecilia’s father—in this superbly acted and engrossingly atmospheric drama about innocence in illicit times." -- www.globalfilm.org.
Collection: Language Resource Center