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Specifications
Colour / Black and white : Couleur
Lengh : 90 mn
Locations and shooting dates : Patagonia - September 2007 - 8 weeks - 35 mm
Shooting language : SPANISH
Working budget : 1 200 000 €
Acquired financing : 245 000
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Statement
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My generation comes just after the one of apocalyptic beliefs. My parents tried to build their lives using the debris of an already betrayed ideology, of a hippie project that had self-destructed shortly before their arrival. My village is situated at the bottom of a hemmed-in Patagonian valley. It is quite literally a well, into which people who want to disappear have always fallen. My social class is indefinable, very poor but not proletarian, cosmopolitan and rural, impoverished and intellectual. It is a godless, stateless and fatherless world. In my country, Argentina, the state lost all legitimacy following the dictatorships, and then because of the social and economic chaos that came with democracy. I lived without a father, like all my young companions, simply because the family structure had been torn apart.
The core of Salamandra is a conjunction of opposites. Its characters are strengthened by what wounds them, saved by that which causes them to be lost, and made beautiful by their faults.
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Synopsis
Inti is six years old. He is living with his grandmother when Alba comes to fetch him, after too-long an absence, and drags him off to a legendary valley in Patagonia, hitching lifts all the way.
In the middle of this village, renegades from the world over live in the house of the deceased Dr. Schulz, among his insect collections and a whole hoard of animals.
Around and about, in the shanty town, neglected children play at making fire, demolishing the school or, at night, at attacking the houses of newcomers.
Between these two impossible worlds, Alba tries to raise Inti. Whatever the cost. Armed only with her dreams.
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Contacts
| Production: JBA PRODUCTION - 52 rue Charlot 75003 PARIS - FRANCE - T : 33 1 48 04 84 60 - [email protected] - www.jbaproduction.com
Coproduction :
RIZOMA FILMS, Hernàn MUSALUPPI
Virrey Loreto 3709
C1427DXC Buenos Aires, Argentina
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