''Kryptonita'' () is a 2015

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co-written and directed by Nicanor Loreti and starring

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, Lautaro Delgado,

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and

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and based on the novel of the same name by Leonardo Oyola. The story uses

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' famous structure of alternative stories to adapt DC's Justice League superheroes to a suburban setting in Argentina, where

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and his team are a gang with a

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background battling a corrupt police force and local versions of

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and the Joker. It was officially released in the 2015 edition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. After the success of the film, it was announced that the story would be adapted as a

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sequel for the Argentine cable television channel Space. The series is titled '' Nafta Super'' and it premiered on November 16 of 2016. ''Nafta Super'' is a direct sequel to the film, picking up a few months after the story for ''Kryptonita'' ended, and with most of the original cast returning for a total of eight episodes.Nafta Súper: In The West is the get-down
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Synopsis

In an alternative world, Superman has not been raised as a child in the United States, but instead in La Matanza ("The Slaughter" in Spanish), a working-class urban area near Buenos Aires, where he and the other members of the Justice League (Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, Batman and Martian Manhunter) have grown up to become antiheroes. Superman becomes known as "Nafta Super", and together with his friends they form the Nafta Super Gang, who rob banks and help the poor people in the city of La Matanza -a '' partido'' (county) located in the urban agglomeration of

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(

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)- by giving them the stolen money. Nafta Super and his gang (which includes a transvestite Wonder Woman) are enemies with another gang led by a bald gangster (Lex Luthor), and also fight corrupt elements of the ''Bonaerense'' police which are seeking to stop their " Robin Hood" ways. One night, Nafta Super is badly hurt by a piece of kryptonite and is taken by his gang to a Hospital, where his life is saved by a terrified doctor. Shortly after, the ''Bonaerense'' police appears looking for Super's capture -or even better, his death-, aided by Corona ( The Joker; Corona is "Crown" in Spanish), a scheming negotiator, and Turtle Head (

), a powerful member of GEOF Special Operations.

Cast

as Nafta Super/El Pini/Pinino (

) *

as El Federico (

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) * Lautaro Delgado as Lady Di ( Wonder Woman/Diana Prince) *

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as Doctor González/"El Tordo" *

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as Faisán ( Green Lantern) *

as Corona ( Joker) * Diego Cremonesi as Ráfaga ( Flash) * Sofía Palomino as Cuñatai Güirá ( Hawkgirl) * Carca as Juan Raro ( Martian Manhunter/J'onn J'onzz) *

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as Turtle Head/Oficial Cabeza de Tortuga (

) * Sebastián De Caro as Lieutenant Ranni/Teniente Ranni ( James Gordon) *

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as Police Officer/Oficial Olfa ( Harvey Bullock) * Susana Varela as Nurse Nilda/Enfermera Nilda *

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as Detective Ventura

References

External links

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''Kryptonita''
at Cinenacional.com
''Kryptonite''
at Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Official Site) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kryptonita 2010s crime films 2010s fantasy action films 2015 films 2010s Spanish-language films Films shot in Buenos Aires Argentine action films 2015 independent films 2010s superhero films Crossover films Parodies of Superman 2010s Argentine films