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Garage Olimpo

1999 · 98 min

A suffocating, quietly devastating plunge into state terror, told with chilling restraint and a pervasive sense of dread.

Directed by
Marco Bechis
Genres
Drama
Starring
Antonella Costa, Carlos Echevarría, Enrique Piñeyro
Overview
María is eighteen years old, she lives with her mother in an old house in Buenos Aires in 1978, subletting rooms and giving classes to poor illiterate adults. Suddenly she is abducted by a military squad and finds herself accused of subversion and submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo, while her mother desperately tries to find her.

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Directed by
Marco Bechis
Genres
Drama
Starring
Antonella Costa, Carlos Echevarría, Enrique Piñeyro
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • power
  • violence
  • survival
  • isolation
  • politics
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
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Action2
Horror4
Humour0
Realism9
Romance2
Tension8
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Marco Bechis
Written by
Marco Bechis, Lara Fremder
Starring
Antonella Costa, Carlos Echevarría, Enrique Piñeyro, Pablo Razuk, Dominique Sanda, Chiara Caselli, Paola Bechis, Adrián Fondari
Cinematography
Ramiro Civita
Runtime
98 min
Country
Argentina, France, Italy
Languages
Italian, Spanish, French

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