Plata dulce (1982)

Directed by

Fernando Ayala

Genre

drama film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

pg-13

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is set during a historic financial crisis in Argentina in the early 1980s. It follows people dealing with the collapse of industry and the rise of banking speculation, which pushes many into poverty.

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What happens

Plata dulce (meaning "easy money", literally "sweet money") is an Argentine comedy drama-historic film. It was released on 8 July 1982 and directed by Fernando Ayala, starring Federico Luppi, Julio de Grazia and Gianni Lunadei. It received a Cóndor de Plata award for best film in 1983. During this historic period in Argentina, many labour rights were suspended and industrial production fell to extremely low levels, while banks started rising and external debt grew practically exponentially. The result of these policy (which aimed for easy money) was one of the biggest financial disasters in the country's history, producing a large loss of its industry and bringing large part of the population into poverty. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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