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Heroes y Demonios (1999)

Hctor Alterio , Villanueva Cosse , Horacio Maldonado  |  NR |  DVD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Hctor Alterio, Villanueva Cosse, Nacha Guevara, Federico D'Elia, Pablo Echarri
  • Directors: Horacio Maldonado
  • Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
  • Language: Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: Allumination
  • DVD Release Date: June 8, 2006
  • Run Time: 102 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000G5SIFS
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #276,386 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertain Release Date: 04/10/2007

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Motivated Psychos, July 31, 2008
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A funny / sad movie that starts in a the streets, consolidates in a manicomio, then explodes in the streets. Pablo is Echarri is frighteningly convincing as a motivated terrorist under the banner "Los derechos no se negocian." The power of the individual to terrorize, no group needed. Just an idea and a will and madman could confound the authorities.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Frighteningly Powerful and Timely Statement, April 30, 2004
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Director Horacio Maldonado and his Argentinean crew have produced a film that is not only a fast-paced action movie, but it also an immensely important meditation on the difference between political activism and terrorism. And if ever there were a time when we need to examine the differences between these two responses, it is now! Maldonado uses the metaphor of a Psychiatric Hospital as the foundation for the creation of two dichotomous characters. Both are mental patients but for different reasons: Sergio (Federico D'Elia) is an obsessive-compulsive computer fanatic who is deeply concerned with the lack of respect for human rights shown the patients surrounding him in the hospital. Enter Gabriel (the extraordinarily talented Pablo Echarri who continues his "Burnt Money" impression as one of Argentina's best young actors), a street person left to survive after his mother's death from cancer and unable to avoid the police because of his violent outbursts and madness. Gabriel becomes a patient under the care of the psychiatrist Dr. Pena (Nacha Guevaara) and sheds his street filth for hospital clothes but remains mute and grossly disturbed. Sergio befriends Gabriel and also finds the support of his other fellow inmates, believing that he and his friends, upon release, can change society and fight for LOS DERECHOS NO SE NEGOCIAN ("Rights are not negotiable"). Three years later they all have been released and Sergio is a political activist with brains who is under investigation by the Director of Security (Villanueva Cosse) who has appointed the specialist Jorge Romano (Hector Alterio, another of Argentina's most respected actors) to find the identity of those who are infiltrating the media and the government with the slogan "Los Derechos no se Negocian". Another downtrodden victim of society, Marina (Andrea Pietra), by chance comes to live with Sergio and thus is involved with the movement. How this struggle between the government and the activists (and in Gabriel's case, the terrorists, as Gabriel's violent nature sees only death as a means to an end) is the potent resolution to this tense and disturbing film..

It is rare when a film can make such important statements and still remain a credible and finely tuned drama, and it is to the credit of Horacio Maldonado that he has the courage to bring this story to the attention of the world. An important and very fine movie.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Real life Tragedy, June 10, 2010
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Not everything is sweet and roses. A true story about a mind spiraling into extreme violence.
This movie builds up into a shocking finale. Not for the faint hearted. Recommend it!!








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