''A Translator'' ( es, Un Traductor) is a 2018 Cuban
docudrama
Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event".
Docudramas typic ...
directed by
Rodrigo Barriuso
Rodrigo Barriuso (born 1988) is a Cuban-Canadian filmmaker, most noted as co-director with his brother Sebastián Barriuso of the film ''A Translator (Un traductor)'',
Born in 1988 in Havana, Barriuso moved to Canada in the late 2000s to study f ...
and
Sebastián Barriuso. It was selected as Cuba's entry for the
Best International Feature Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to ...
at the
92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Plot
When survivors of the
Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuc ...
arrive in Cuba for medical treatment, a local Russian literature professor is ordered to act as a translator.
Cast
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Rodrigo Santoro as Malin (the translator)
*
Maricel Álvarez
Maricel Álvarez is an Argentine actress. Her film credits include ''Biutiful'', ''Sunstrokes'', ''To Rome with Love (film), To Rome With Love'' and Un Traductor.
Filmography
*1997: ''Little Miracles''
*2010: ''Biutiful''
*2011: ''Fatherland'' ...
as Gladys (nurse)
*
Yoandra Suárez as Isona (Malin's wife)
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* Nikita Semenov as Alexi
* Jorge Carlos Perez Herrera as Javier
* Genadijs Dolganovs as Vladimir
* Milda Gecaite as Olga
* Eslinda Nuñez as Dr. Rivas
* ]Osvaldo Doimeadios Osvaldo may refer to the following people:
Given name
* Osvaldo Alonso, Cuban football player
* Osvaldo Ardiles (born 1952), an Argentine football player and coach
*Osvaldo Bagnoli, an Italian football coach
*Osvaldo Brandão, a Brazilian football ...
as Dr. Sanchez
* Nataliya Rodina as Elena
See also
* List of submissions to the 92nd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
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References
External links
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2018 films
2018 drama films
Cuban drama films
2010s Spanish-language films
2010s Russian-language films
Films about the Chernobyl disaster
Films about interpreting and translation
Canadian drama films
Spanish-language Canadian films
2010s Canadian films
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