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Last Images of the Shipwreck (1989)

Last Images of the Shipwreck poster
Original title
Últimas imágenes del naufragio
Directed by
Eliseo Subiela
Genre
drama film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
2h 07m
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man becomes entangled with a prostitute after a chance encounter. The film follows their relationship as a metaphor for societal collapse in Argentina.

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What happens

Letzte Bilder eines Schiffbruchs (Originaltitel: Últimas imágenes del naufragio) ist ein argentinisches Filmdrama aus dem Jahr 1989, geschrieben und gedreht von Eliseo Subiela, das am 5. April 1990 seine Erstaufführung hatte, und in dem Lorenzo Quinteros, Noemí Frenkel, Hugo Soto und Pablo Brichta die Hauptrollen spielten. In Deutschland kam er am 24. Juni 1993 in die Kinos. Der Film ist eine Metapher für den Zusammenbruch der argentinischen Gesellschaft und wurde mitten in der Hyperinflationskrise von 1989 gedreht. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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