Underplayed Gems

Rojo (2018)

Rojo poster
Directed by
Benjamín Naishtat
Genre
drama film, thriller film
Country
Argentina, Germany, Brazil, France
Runtime
1h 49m
Rated
13
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 65 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Set in Argentina in the 1970s, a lawyer named Claudio Moran gets drawn into the hidden complicity of his community as political dissidents start disappearing without explanation before the 1976 coup. The film follows his quiet entanglement with the unsettling silence around him.

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What happens

Rojo is a 2018 mystery thriller drama film, directed by Benjamín Naishtat and released in 2018. Set in the 1970s, the film stars Darío Grandinetti as Claudio Morán, a lawyer who becomes slowly enmeshed in the culture of silent bourgeois complicity around the strange unexplained enforced disappearances of political dissidents in the months leading up to the 1976 Argentine coup d'état. The cast also includes Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, Diego Cremonesi, Laura Grandinetti, Susana Pampin, Rudy Chernicoff, Claudio Martinez, Mara Bestelli and Rafael Federman. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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