''Much Ado About Nothing'' ( es, Aquí no ha pasado nada) is a 2016 Chilean
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Alejandro Fernández Almendras. It was shown in the Panorama section at the
66th Berlin International Film Festival.
It was inspired by a real-life
political scandal
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in Chile. In 2013, Martín Larraín, son of Senator
Carlos Larraín
Carlos Larraín was the President of National Renewal (Renovación Nacional).
Biography
Carlos Larraín Peña received an LL.B. from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1967, and an M.A. from the Université catholique de Louvain in ...
(then-president of the right-wing party
Renovación Nacional), was acquitted after killing a man in a
DUI
Driving under the influence (DUI)—also called driving while impaired, impaired driving, driving while intoxicated (DWI), drunk driving, operating while intoxicated (OWI), operating under the influence (OUI), operating vehicle under the infl ...
hit and run
In traffic laws, a hit and run or a hit-and-run is the act of causing a traffic collision and not stopping afterwards. It is considered a supplemental crime in most jurisdictions.
Additional obligation
In many jurisdictions, there may be a ...
while his friends took the fall.
Plot
Vicente, who resides in
Los Angeles
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, returns to Chile to spend his summer at his parents' beach house. He is a reckless and somewhat solitary young man. However, one of those typical nights of pursuing girls and having drinks alters his life forever; he becomes the prime suspect in a hit-and-run accident that results in the death of a local fisherman. "I wasn't the one driving," he insists, but his memories are muddled. He does recall being in the car and that the driver was the son of a powerful politician.
Cast
* Agustín Silva as Vicente "Vicho" Maldonado
* Samuel Landea as Manuel Larrea
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Paulina García
Paulina García Alfonso (born 27 November 1960), better known as Pali García, is a Chilean actress, stage director, and playwright.
García debuted on television with a small role in the telenovela ''Los títeres'' (1984), but she was soon ...
as Roxana
*
Alejandro Goic as Uncle Julio
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Daniel Alcaíno
Daniel Alcaíno Cuevas (, born April 6, 1972) is a Chilean actor and comedian. He is popularly known for his comedy characters ''Peter Veneno'' (roughly based in Ivan Zamorano), and ''Yerko Puchento'', an outspoken showbusiness journalist and p ...
as Prosecutor Yáñez
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Augusto Schuster
Augusto José Schuster Picó or just Augusto Schuster or the mononym Schuster (born 24 August 1992, in Santiago) is a Chilean actor, singer, dancer and model.
Filmography Telenovelas
TV series
Films
Theatre
Discography Albums
Solo
*20 ...
as Diego
* Pilar Ronderos as Camila
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Geraldine Neary as Francisca
* Isabella Costa as Ana
* Victoria de Gregorio as Sofía
* Li Fridman as Lucía
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Mariana di Girólamo as María
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Luis Gnecco
Luis Enrique Gnecco Dessy (born 12 December 1962) is a Chilean actor.
Besides his work in Chilean telenovelas and films (''Johnny 100 Pesos'', the Academy Award nominated '' No'', ''El bosque de Karadima'', ''A Fantastic Woman'' and '' Neruda' ...
as Gustavo Barría
References
External links
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2016 films
2016 drama films
Chilean drama films
2010s Spanish-language films
Drama films based on actual events
Films about miscarriage of justice
2010s Chilean films
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