El juego de arcibel
El juego de Arcibel (English: Arcibel's Game), is a 2003 Argentine drama film co-written and directed by Alberto Lecchi and starring Darío Grandinetti and Diego Torres, among others.
Plot
1967: in Miranda, an imaginary Latin American country, ruled by the dictator General Abalorio, Arcibel Alegría (Darío Grandinetti), a journalist who writes articles about chess is taken to jail as political prisoner due to a mixed-up schedule of the newspaper he works for. Arcibel, a non-political, rather solitary person, separated, and father of a two-year-old girl, will get to know a new reality he's never heard of, from inside the jail.
More details
| author | Daniel García Molt |
|---|---|
| director | Alberto Lecchi |
| editor | Alejandro Alem Miguel Santamaría |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | confine dictator game how to latin america learn lock up playing chess political prisoner war game |
| musicBy | Iván Wyszogrod |
| producer | Luis Sartor |
| publisher | National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts |
| theme | independent prison |