Underplayed Gems

A Place in the World (1992)

A Place in the World poster
Original title
Un lugar en el mundo
Directed by
Adolfo Aristarain
Genre
drama film
Country
Argentina, Uruguay, Spain
Runtime
2h
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 61 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A family moves to a remote rural area in Argentina to start a cooperative farm. The story follows their struggles to build a new life and the conflicts that arise with local landowners.

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What happens

A Place in the World (Spanish: Un lugar en el mundo) is a 1992 Argentine drama film co-written, co-produced and directed by Adolfo Aristarain, and starring Federico Luppi. It stars José Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Leonor Benedetto and Cecilia Roth. The movie won numerous awards and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film; however, it was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot because it had been submitted by Uruguay, which had exercised insufficient artistic control over the film. It is the only film so far to have been disqualified from this category after it secured a nomination. In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 14th position. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 34th position. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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