El peso de la ley (2017)

Directed by

Fernán Mirás

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 41m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A public defender in Argentina takes on a rape case in a small town. She believes her client might be innocent for the first time in her career.

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What happens

The Heavy Hand of the Law is a 2017 Argentine legal drama film directed by Fernán Mirás from a screenplay he co-wrote with Roberto Gispert. Produced by Fernando Sokolowicz, the film stars Paola Barrientos as Gloria Soriano, a public defender disillusioned with her work for never having defended an innocent when she gets involved in a legal case regarding a rape in El Escondido, a fictitious town located in the deep interior of Buenos Aires with a pleading written by her former teacher and aspiring to a seat in the Argentine Judiciary, Prosecutor Mercedes Rivas (María Onetto). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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