Crane World (1999)

Original title

Mundo grúa

Directed by

Pablo Trapero

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Rulo is an unemployed suburban man in Argentina trying to make a living as a crane operator in Buenos Aires. The film follows his everyday struggles and setbacks in working class life.

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What happens

Crane World (Spanish: Mundo grúa) is a 1999 Argentine comedy-drama film written and directed by Pablo Trapero. The film was produced by Lita Stantic and Pablo Trapero. It features Luis Margani, Adriana Aizemberg, Daniel Valenzuela, among others. The movie was partly funded by Argentina's INCAA as well as by the Dutch Hubert Bals Fund. The picture is about working class life in Argentina that's gritty (filmed in sepia, black and white). The film follows the fortunes in the life of Rulo, an unemployed suburban man, who tries to earn a living as a crane operator in Buenos Aires. 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 9th 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 39th position. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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