''Belgrano'' is a 2010 Argentine

adventure An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or other extreme spo ...

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

TV film A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for ...

, based on the life of the Argentine

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Manuel Belgrano Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano y González (3 June 1770 – 20 June 1820), usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano (), was an Argentine public servant, economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military leader. He ...

. It is being produced in the context of the

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, which raised the public interest in the

May Revolution The May Revolution ( es, Revolución de Mayo) was a week-long series of events that took place from May 18 to 25, 1810, in Buenos Aires, capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. This Spanish colony included roughly the terri ...

and the

Argentine War of Independence The Argentine War of Independence ( es, Guerra de Independencia de Argentina, links=no) was a secessionist civil war fought from 1810 to 1818 by Argentine patriotic forces under Manuel Belgrano, Juan José Castelli and José de San Martín a ...

Pablo Rago Pablo Rago (; born September 24, 1972 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actor. He has acted in the films ''The Official Story'' (as a child actor) and ''The Secret in Their Eyes''; both Argentine films have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign ...

, one of the actors of the aforementioned movie, had the lead role as Belgrano.Hacer historia en la TV
He left the TV series ''

Botineras ''Botineras'' (''WAGs: Love for the Game'') was an Argentine telenovela produced by Underground Contenidos and Telefe Contenidos in association with Endemol. It began airing on November 24, 2009, Tuesday through Friday at 11 p.m. ( UTC-3), on Tel ...

'' before its ending, in order to take part in this movie. The first scenes of the film were filmed in

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, playing scene at

Posta de Yatasto The Yatasto relay ( es, Posta de Yatasto) was the handover of the command of the Army of the North by Manuel Belgrano to José de San Martín, in January 1814, during the Argentine War of Independence. It is named after the Posta de Yatasto (place ...

where Manuel Belgrano hands the command of the

Army of the North The Army of the North ( es, link=no, Ejército del Norte), contemporaneously called Army of Peru, was one of the armies deployed by the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in the Spanish American wars of independence. Its objective was fre ...

José de San Martín José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (25 February 177817 August 1850), known simply as José de San Martín () or '' the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru'', was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and cent ...

, played by

Pablo Echarri Pablo Daniel Echarri (born September 21, 1969) is a leading Argentine actor. Biography He was born in Sarandí, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Career Pablo Echarri began his career on Argentine television in 1993. He was given his first sig ...

. The film is scheduled to be filmed both at Buenos Aires and Tucuman. Valeria Bertucelli played María Josefa Ezcurra, Belgrano's lover. Sebastián Pivoto declared that he intended to provide a more humane, less idealized, interpretation of the life of Belgrano. The film premiered on November 27, 2010, at a public event at the National Flag Memorial in

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous ci ...

.El 27 presentan filme sobre Belgrano en Rosario

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* 2010 films 2010 biographical drama films 2010 television films Argentine biographical films Argentine adventure drama films Manuel Belgrano 2010s Spanish-language films Films directed by Juan José Campanella Cultural depictions of José de San Martín Works about the Argentine War of Independence Films set in the 1810s Films set in Argentina 2010s Argentine films {{DEFAULTSORT:Belgrano (film)