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EL CIUDADANO ILUSTRE (THE DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN)
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Post-Production - SPANISH - Drama - 118 minutes

Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Gaston DUPRAT, Cohn MARIANO
Writer(s) : Andres DUPRAT
Cast : Oscar MARTINEZ, Dady BRIEVA, Andrea FRIGERIO

Producer(s) : Arco LIBRE (Arco Libre), Televisión ABIERTA (TVA), Magma MAGMA (MAGMA), A CONTRACORRIENTE FILMS (A Contracorriente Films)

Synopsis

Daniel Mantovani is an Argentinean writer who has lived in Europe for over three decades. He is renowned worldwide for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. His novels are characterized by portraying with mastery and heartless crudeness life in Salas, the small town in Argentina where he was born and to which he has not returned since he was a young man aspiring to become a writer. Among the numerous correspondences he receives on a daily basis, he gets a letter from the Municipality of Salas inviting him to receive the greatest recognition from the town: the Distinguished Citizen Award. Surprisingly, and despite his important obligations and engagements, Daniel decides to accept the proposal and return to Salas incognito.
This trip will have multiple facets for Daniel: it will be his triumphal return to the town he was born in, a trip to the past in which he will meet old friends, loves and landscapes from his youth again, and mainly a trip to the core of his literature, to the source of his creations and his inspiration.
Once there, the writer will confirm the affinities that still link him to Salas, as well as the insuperable differences that will soon turn him into a strange and disturbing element for the life in the town. Daniel's attitude, together with the particular idiosyncrasies and intolerance of local people, causes many controversies and even endanger his life. .
In the end, one last turn of events will bring about an unexpected outcome, which will modify the perception of the entire story.

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Country(ies) : ARGENTINA, SPAIN

AUSTRIA Apr 28, 2017 POLYFILM VERLEI
BELGIUM SEPTEMBER FILM
CHINA Sep 08, 2016 TIME-IN-PORTRAI
CZECH REPU FILM EUROPE (CZ
FRANCE Mar 08, 2017 MEMENTO DISTRIB
GERMANY CINE GLOBAL
GREECE ONE FROM THE HE
HONG KONG EDKO FILMS LTD
NETHERLAND SEPTEMBER FILM
NORWAY Feb 08, 2017 TROMSØ INTERNAT
PORTUGAL Jun 01, 2017 OUTSIDER FILMS
PUERTO RIC ALUCINE PR, INC
SLOVAKIA FILM EUROPE (SL
SWEDEN May 11, 2017 MAYWIN MEDIA AB
SWITZERLAN Feb 08, 2017 XENIX FILMDISTR


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