''Kryptonita'' () is a 2015 Argentine

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fantasy film co-written and directed by

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and starring Pablo Rago,

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, Juan Palomino and

Diego Capusotto Diego Esteban Capusotto (born 21 September 1961) is an Argentine television presenter, actor, and comedian who is noted for his participation in television shows such as '' Cha Cha Cha'', '' Todo por dos pesos'' and '' Peter Capusotto y sus vide ...

and based on the novel of the same name by Leonardo Oyola. The story uses Elseworlds' famous structure of alternative stories to adapt DC's

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superheroes to a suburban setting in Argentina, where Superman and his team are a gang with a low class 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

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. After the success of the film, it was announced that the story would be adapted as a TV series

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for the Argentine cable television channel

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. 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
11-13-2016 - ''Radar'', cultural section of '' Página/12''

Synopsis

In an alternative world, Superman has not been raised as a child in the United States, but instead in

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("The Slaughter" in Spanish), a working-class urban area near

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, 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

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of Greater Buenos Aires ( Buenos Aires Province)- 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 "

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" 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 (

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; Corona is "Crown" in Spanish), a scheming negotiator, and Turtle Head (

), a powerful member of GEOF Special Operations.

Cast

* Juan Palomino as Nafta Super/El Pini/Pinino ( Superman) * Pablo Rago as El Federico ( Batman) *

as Lady Di ( Wonder Woman/Diana Prince) * Diego Velázquez as Doctor González/"El Tordo" * Nicolás Vázquez as Faisán (

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) *

as Corona ( Joker) * Diego Cremonesi as Ráfaga (

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) * Sofía Palomino as Cuñatai Güirá (

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) * Carca as Juan Raro ( Martian Manhunter/J'onn J'onzz) * Pablo Pinto as Turtle Head/Oficial Cabeza de Tortuga (

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