5 Films & TV Shows Set In Argentina During The 1920s

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  Nitrate Flames

  🇦🇷 Argentina 🇫🇷 France The 1920s The 1930s The 1940s

  What ever happened to Dreyer's Joan of Arc? — French actress Maria Falconetti (1892-1946) traveled a winding road from her glory days in luminous Paris, in the 1920s, to her last days in Buenos Aires, in the late 1940s. In her strange journey through life, she found a very special character, the center of a tragic story and the obsession of a peculiar filmmaker: a unique opportunity, a sublime performance, so remarkable that nothing would ever be the same for her again…

  Released in 2015 • 63 minutes
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  The Escape

  🇦🇷 Argentina The 1920s

  Freedom is an irresistible instinct. — In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.

  Released in 2001 • 117 minutes
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  Anarchists

  🇦🇷 Argentina 🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s

  Armed based on photography, period films, archival materials and testimonies of survivors, family members and historians, the documentary accurately and exquisitely reconstructs the course of the “expropriating anarchists” in the Río de la Plata and specifically in Montevideo del First third of the 20th century.

  Released in 2000 • 73 minutes
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  Evita

  🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s

  The Most Anticipated Motion Picture Event of The Year. — The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

  Released in 1996 • 134 minutes
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  Naked Tango

  🇦🇷 Argentina The 1920s

  When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.

  Released in 1990 • 90 minutes