''Memories of the Desert'' ( pt, Romance Policial) is a 2014 Brazilian-Chilean crime drama film directed and written by Jorge Durán. It stars Daniel de Oliveira as a young Brazilian writer named Antonio, who decides to go to the Atacama Desert in search of inspiration for a tale.

Daniela Ramírez Daniela Elizabeth Ramírez Rodríguez (born 11 January 1987) is a Chilean film, theater and television actress. She starred in the series '' Los archivos del cardenal'', for which she won an Altazor Award for best television actress, and also h ...

and

Álvaro Rudolphy Álvaro Gonzalo Rudolphy Fontaine (born May 24, 1964, in Viña del Mar, Chile) is a Chilean actor who works in theater, soap operas and film. He has obtained numerous awards, among them the Apes Prize in 2001 to the best Actor in his role in '' A ...

co-star in supporting roles. The film was first screened on 9 March 2014 at the

Miami International Film Festival The Miami Film Festival (formerly Miami International Film Festival) is an annual film festival in Miami, Florida, that showcases independent American and international films with a special focus on Ibero-American films. The competitive film fest ...

, and was released theatrically in Brazil on 4 June 2015.

Plot

Antonio is a 30-year-old civil servant living in

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, with a penchant for writing, who travels to the Atacama Desert in search of inspiration to write a novel. The arid and astonishing landscape leaves him in awe. One day, Antonio, hiking through the desert, hears suspicious noises and finds a dead man (whom he had met earlier in a bar). He is detained by Martínez, a local police officer, who forbids him to leave Chile or the village of San Pedro de Atacama, where he stays. Antonio also meets Florencia, a local bar-owner, with whom he develops a romantic relationship. The crime situation and his ongoing romance with Florencia help him write his tale and get mixed in it.

Cast

* Daniel de Oliveira as Antonio *

as Florencia *

as Martínez * Roxana Campos as Miriam * Rogério Fróes as The Old Writer * Nelson Polania as El Hombre (as Nelson Polanco) * Victor Montero as Romo * María Izquierdo as Florencia's Mother

Awards and nominations

* Best Film –

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(nominated) * The Knight Competition –

(nominated)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Memories of the Desert 2014 crime drama films 2014 films Brazilian crime drama films Films set in Chile Films shot in Rio de Janeiro (city) Portuguese-language films 2010s Spanish-language films