NERUDA
Filmfest 2016
Argentina, Chile, France, Spain 2016
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: Spanish)
German Premiere
Director: Pablo Larraín
Section: CineMasters Competition
An anti-biopic, a wild, energetic trip through time into the mythological and political past of Chile: Pablo Neruda, poet, Senator, Communist, was to go into hiding 1948 for publicly criticizing President Gabriel González Videla. He goes on the run with his wife Delia, pursured by dogged investigator Gael Garcia Bernal, the very unreliable narrator of the film and his own detective story.
Cast: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal, Mercedes Morán, Diego Muñoz, Pablo Derqui
Credits
Screenplay: Guillermo Calderón
Director of Photography: Sergio Armstrong
Film Editor: Hervé Schneid
Composer: Federico Jusid
Production Designer: Estefanía Larraín
Costume Design: Muriel Parra
Sound: Miguel Hormazábal
Producer: Juan de Dios Larraín, Alex Zito, Juan Pablo García, Ignacio Rey, Peter Danner, Fernanda del Nido, Jeff Skoll
Production Company: Fabula, AZ Films, Funny Balloons, Setembro Cine, Participant Media
Co-Producer: Axel Kuschevatsky, Marc Simoncini
Co-Production Company: Telefé, Reborn Production
World Sales: Funny Balloons
Distributor: Piffl Medien GmbH
Director: Pablo Larraín
biography
Pablo Larraín, born 1976 in Santiago de Chile, is one of the leading filmmakers of Chile. He studied at Universidad de las Artes, Ciencia y Comunicación de Chile and founded production company Fábula with his brother Juan de Dios Larraín 2005. FILMFEST MÜNCHEN screened POST MORTEM 2010, set in the last days of Salvador Allende’s presidency. THE CLUB, about abuse in the Catholic Church, made waves internationally 2015.
