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Polvo nuestro que estas en los cielos (2008)

Directed by Beatriz Flores Silva

Overview

Aurelio Saravia is a powerful politician who holds office in Uruguay in the mid-1960’s. When Aurelio’s mistress kills herself, he adopts their illegitimate daughter Masangeles despite the stern objections of his wife Aurora. Masangeles finds herself growing up in a home ruled by a corrupt and self-centered tyrant and his manic colleagues while Uruguay teeters on the brink of civil war as bands of revolutionaries battle government militias. When she turns fourteen, Masangeles discovers a secret passageway in their home that leads to sanctuary in a nearby church which also serves as a storehouse for guns and ill-gotten cash. Teenage Masangeles falls in love with Santiago, her stepbrother who has joined the rebels fighting against the state, and she persuades him to take her virginity.

Length 126 minutes

Actors

Elisa García | Héctor Guido | Margarita Musto | Antonella Aquistapache | Ignacio Cawen | Nicolás Furtado | Juan Gamero | Myriam Gleijer | Lucio Hernández | Augusto Mazzarelli | Ileana López