Magallanes (En)

Magallanes

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International title: 

Magallanes

Original version: 

Espagnol

Director: 

Salvador del Solar

Country: 

  • Peru

Year: 

2014

Length: 

105 min.

Editor: 

Edison Rincón

Composer: 

Federico Jusid

Director of photography: 

Diego Jiménez

Actors: 

Damián Alcázar, Magaly Solier, Federico Luppi, Christian Meier, Bruno Odar, Jairo Camargo

Production: 

Coproduction: 

Synopsis : 

Magallanes sees his humdrum life turn upside down the day Celina, a women he met in the violent years when he was a soldier with the Peruvian Army, jumps into his taxi in a Lima street. This unexpected re-encounter with the dark past that unites them prompts Magallanes to embark on a daring plan to help Celina get money and find his own redemption.

Director's biography: 

Magallanes is the directorial debut by Salvador del Solar (Lima, 1970), who has a long career behind him as an actor, having worked in more than 12 feature films and a great many television and theatre projects. Particularly outstanding is his leading role in Francisco Lombardi’s Pantaleón y las visitadoras (2000), and his participation in Juan Felipe Orozco’s Saluda al diablo de mi parte (Greetings to the Devil, 2010) and Javier Fuentes-León’s El elefante desaparecido (2014). Before making his first feature, he wrote and helmed the short film Pescar 2 veces.

Filmography: 

Magallanes - LM / feature - réalisateur / director
2000 - Pantaleón y las visitadoras - LM - acteur / actor
2010 - Saluda al diablo de mi parte - acteur / actor
2014 - El elefante desaparecido - acteur / actor
Pescar 2 veces - CM / short - scénariste / script / guión - réalisateur/ director