Postcards from Leningrad

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Postcards from Leningrad
Mariana Rondon
StarringLaureano Olivares
Greisy Mena
Distributed bySudaka Films
Release date
  • 7 September 2007 (2007-09-07)
CountryVenezuela
LanguageSpanish

Postcards from Leningrad, Spanish title: Postales de Leningrado) is a 2007 Venezuelan film, written and directed by

Best Foreign Language Film of the 80th Academy Awards
.

Plot

During the leftist uprising in the 1960s in Venezuela, a young guerrilla-girl, living in secrecy, gives birth to her first daughter during Mother's Day. Due to that, her photos appear on the newspaper, since that moment they would have to run away.

Hidden places, false disguises and names are the daily life of The Girl, the narrator of the story. Alongside her cousin (Teo), they re-live the adventures of their guerrilla parents, building up a labyrinth with superheroes and strategies, in which nobody knows where the reality (or madness) begins. However, this children's game does not hide the deaths, tortures, denunciations and treason within the guerrillas.

The kids want to convert themselves into The Invisible Man, in order to escape from the danger. However, they know that their parents might never comeback and therefore, they'll only receive Postcards from Leningrad.

Cast

  • Laureano Olivares as Teo
  • Greisy Mena as Marcela/Clara/Mercedes
  • William Cifuentes as Teo (Child)
  • Haydee Faverola as Grandmother
  • María Fernanda Ferro as Marta
  • Ignacio Marquez as Tio Miguel
  • Oswaldo Hidalgo as Grandfather
  • Claudia Usubillaga as The Girl

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ International Film Festival of Kerala
  2. ^ a b c d "Postales de Leningrado - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.

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