''Gatica, el mono'' is a 1993 Argentine
drama film directed by
Leonardo Favio. It is a
biopic
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of
Argentine
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...
boxer José María Gatica.
It won the
Silver Condor
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for Best Film. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film at the
66th Academy Awards, but Leonardo Favio asked the Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía (INC) to remove it as a nominee in order to protest in delays of the Congress' approval of the Foreign Films taxes.
In a survey of the
100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the
Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 24th position. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines ''La vida útil'', ''Taipei'' and ''La tierra quema'', presented at the
Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 20th position.
Cast
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Edgardo Nieva as Gatica
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Horacio Taicher as El Ruso
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Juan Costa
Juan Costa Climent (born 10 April 1965) is a Spanish politician, who served as Minister of Science and Technology of Spain from September 2003 to April 2004.
References
1965 births
Living people
University of Navarra alumni
Government m ...
as Jesús Gatica
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María Eva Gatica
Maria may refer to:
People
* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages
Place names Extraterrestrial
*170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
*Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...
as Madre
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Erasmo Olivera as Gatica (teen)
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Kika Child as Ema
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Virginia Innocenti as Nora
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Adolfo Yanelli as El Rosarino
See also
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List of submissions to the 66th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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References
External links
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1993 films
1993 drama films
Argentine drama films
1990s Spanish-language films
Films directed by Leonardo Favio
1990s Argentine films
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