HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Gatica, El Mono
OR:
Gatica, El Mono on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

''Gatica, el mono'' is a 1993 Argentine
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. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by Leonardo Favio. It is a
biopic A biographical film or biopic () is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from docudrama films and histo ...
of Argentine boxer José María Gatica. It won the
Silver Condor The Argentine Film Critics Association () is an organization of Argentine-based journalists and correspondents. The association presents the ''Silver Condor Awards'' (''Premios Cóndor de Plata'') honoring achievements in Argentine cinema. The aw ...
for Best Film. It was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the
66th Academy Awards The 66th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1993 and took place on March 21, 1994, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p. ...
, but Leonardo Favio asked the Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía (INC) to remove it as a nominee in order to protest in delays of the Congress' approval of the Foreign Films taxes. In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 24th position. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines ''La vida útil'', ''Taipei'' and ''La tierra quema'', presented at the
Mar del Plata International Film Festival The Mar del Plata International Film Festival () is an List of film festivals, international film festival that takes place every November in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. It is the only competitive feature festival recognized by the FIAPF ...
, it reached the 20th position.


Cast

* Edgardo Nieva as Gatica * Horacio Taicher as El Ruso * Juan Costa as Jesús Gatica * María Eva Gatica as Madre * Erasmo Olivera as Gatica (teen) * Kika Child as Ema * Virginia Innocenti as Nora * Adolfo Yanelli as El Rosarino


See also

*
List of submissions to the 66th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 66th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English language, Englis ...
*
List of Argentine submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Argentina has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1961. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature length, feature-length motion pictu ...


References


External links

* 1993 films 1993 drama films Argentine drama films 1990s Spanish-language films Films directed by Leonardo Favio 1990s Argentine films Spanish-language drama films {{1990s-drama-film-stub