''Burning Patience'' (

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: ''Ardiente paciencia'') is a 2022 Chilean romantic

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 ...

film directed by Rodrigo Sepúlveda and written by

Guillermo Calderón Guillermo Calderón is a Chilean playwright, director, and screenwriter. His plays have been produced at The Public Theater, Royal Court Theatre, and around the world. As a script writer, he has won different international awards for the best scre ...

. It is based on the novel ''

Ardiente paciencia ''Ardiente Paciencia'', or ''El Cartero De Neruda'', is a 1985 novel by Antonio Skármeta. The novel was published in the English market under the title ''The Postman''. It tells the story of Mario Jiménez, a fictional postman who befriends t ...

'' (The Postman) by

Antonio Skármeta Antonio Skármeta (born Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic on November 7, 1940) is a Chilean writer, scriptwriter and director descending from Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, Dalmatia. He was awarded Chile's National Lite ...

. It stars Vivianne Dietz and Andrew Bargsted. It is the first Netflix film produced in

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Synopsis

Set in 1969, it tells the story of Mario, a young

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who dreams of being a

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. Determined to fulfill his goal, he becomes the postman of the famous writer

Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...

. In this way, nurtured by his mentor, he will fight to become a writer and conquer Beatriz, his great love.

Cast

The actors participating in this film are: * as Mario * as Beatriz *

Claudio Arredondo Claudio Alejandro Marcelo Arredondo Medina (born 29 November 1962, in Santiago) is a Chilean film, theater and television actor and politician. Acting career He studied at the Fernando González Acting Academy. He began his career in 1982 ...

* as Elba * Amalia Kassai as Clarita * Rodolfo Pulgar as Cosme * Pablo Mecaya as Jorge * Trinidad Gonzáles as Elvira * Giordano Rossi as Julio

Production

On November 7, 2021,

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announced that it would produce, together with Fabula, a film based on the novel by

''.

Filming Cinematography (from ancient Greek κίνημα, ''kìnema'' "movement" and γράφειν, ''gràphein'' "to write") is the art of Film, motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens (o ...

began April 4, 2022 in the town of

Isla Negra Isla Negra is a coastal area in El Quisco commune in central Chile, some 45 km (70 km by road) south of Valparaiso and 96 km (110 km by road) west of Santiago. Pablo Neruda Isla Negra is best known as the residence of Chile ...

, on the coast of Chile.

Release

''Burning Patience'' premiered in November 2022 in

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as part of the ''Galas'' section at the

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. The film released internationally on December 7, 2022 on Netflix.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 15939090 2022 films 2022 romantic drama films Chilean romantic drama films 2020s Spanish-language films 2020s Chilean films Cultural depictions of Pablo Neruda Films set in Chile Films shot in Chile Films set in 1969 Films about fishers Films about writers Films about poets Films based on Chilean novels Spanish-language Netflix original films