Product Details

• Actors: Gastón Pauls, Pablo Riva, César Albarracín, Hugo Carrizo, Virginia Innocenti
• Directors: Tristán Bauer
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Koch Lorber Films
• DVD Release Date: July 17, 2007
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000PE0GP0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160,834 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Blessed By Fire" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Acclaimed director Tristán Bauer presents the harrowing story of a band of Argentinean soldiers sent to fight an un-winnable war and left to bear the brutal scars of the past. After learning of a friend’s attempted suicide, a journalist goes back to relive his experiences in the Falklands.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An intense, fascinating look at the Falklands war, from the Argentinean soldier's POV, November 15, 2011

By 

K. Gordon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blessed By Fire (DVD)

I fall between those who see this as a near masterpiece, and

those who dismiss it as overly familiar and done better before.

An intense, fascinating look at the Falklands war, from the Argentinean

soldier's POV, it begins with the attempted suicide of an ex-solider,

which throws his war-time buddy into remembrances of the hell these men

endured.

While the war may have seemed a silly little flare up about a bunch of

rocks to most of the world, to the Argentinean draftees who lost their

lives their limbs and their sanity in a futile, under equipped attempt

to hold off a wildly more powerful British force was as real to them as

Vietnam or Iraq or the coast of Normandy was to the men who suffered

and died there.

Indeed, through this film's eyes it was worse, because it was an

absolutely pointless and quickly forgotten war, drummed up by the

generals back home as a nationalistic exercise to take the country's

mind off its faltering economy,

And then, in the ultimate ignominy, the men are sworn to silence about

their defeat (and, presumably, abusive treatment by their own

officers).

Any war where more of the soldiers die of suicide in the years after

than on the battlefield itself is indeed worth examining.

The film succeeds in capturing the horror, confusion, and fear,

although it doesn't quite get under the skins of the characters enough

to make us understand on a visceral level. I was never bored, but

nowhere near as deeply moved as I wish I had been.

--mild spoiler ahead--

Still, I would have rated this higher except for a stumble in the very

last seconds of the film, where suddenly a burst of sentimentality and

latent nationalism in the form respectively of a pop song, and a last

screen graphic made me question if I had been giving the film too much

credit for having an enlightened point of view.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars War `s tragic nostalgia!, October 29, 2006

By 

Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blessed by Fire ( Iluminados por el fuego ) ( Enlightened by Fire ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ] (DVD)

A survivor from that brutal War in Argentina against UK, best known as Malvins War in order to restore the domain in 1982. A teenager by then, is now a man of 42 who reminds those awful experiences with another survivor and a missed friend, killed in action.

A realist drama that surely will shock

4.0 out of 5 stars A great historical event, November 26, 2010

By 

Henrik Voskanian (NORTHRIDGE, CA, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blessed By Fire (DVD)

A must see to understand what these poor Arjentinian soldiers went through during this island war.

They were closer to this island then the british, but sure the brits were more orgenized and supplied better.