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EL PESO DE LA LEY (THE HEAVY HAND OF LAW)
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Completed - SPANISH - First film, Drama - 100 minutes

Log Line

A thriller that reveals the ups and downs of the judicial system in the 80s in a village in Argentina.

Previous markets

  • Ventana Sur 2016 (Premiere)
Full history

Year of production : 2017

Director(s) : Fernán MIRÁS
Writer(s) : Fernán MIRÁS, Roberto GISPERT
Cast : Fernan MIRAS , Paola BARRIENTOS, María ONETTO, Darío GRANDINETTI, Jorgelina ARUZZI, Darío BARASSI

Producer(s) : Fernando ruben SOKOLOWICZ (Arco Libre )

Synopsis

Gloria is a lawyer and public defender of an inner city who is raffled as a defender of a man in a rape case, a circumstance that put on evidence the reality of a society riddled with prejudices and still fearful, in the context of Argentina on 1983 . The rape has happened in Escondido, a town of 300 inhabitants, full of strange characters. The amount of injustices accumulate in the legal file, the police abuse , the neglect of the experts and the inexperience of the judiciary employees, are some of the issues that the defense attorney has to deal with to save Gómez of a wrongful conviction

Production

Country(ies) : ARGENTINA


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