drama
Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...
Two families meet in a country house to celebrate national holidays and the engagement of their children, Macarena and Alvaro. Just before the party reaches its expected happy ending, young Macarena finds out about the family's best kept secret.
Cast
The actors participating in this film are:
* Adela Secall as Macarena
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Nelson Brodt
Nelson Omar Brodt Chávez (born 7 August 1943) is a Chilean actor, director, dramatist, and teacher, with an extensive career in theater, film, and television.
Career
Nelson Brodt began his career at the Theater of the University of Concepción, ...
as Antonio
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Marcela Osorio
Marcela Osorio Méndez (Valparaíso, Chile; May 11, 1964) is a Chilean film and television actress.
Biography and career
Marcela Osorio was born in the city of Valparaíso, in the homonymous province, Chile. At age 12, for political reasons, h ...
as Isabel
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Tiago Correa
Tiago Kadú Correa Girrulat (born August 28, 1981, in Santiago de Chile, Chile), is a Chilean actor of films and telenovelas.
Biography
The son of a Chilean father and Brazilian mother, Tiago Correa was born in Chile, but at a year of age moved ...
as Álvaro
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Patricio Contreras
Patricio Contreras (born December 15, 1947) is a Chilean-Argentine television, film and stage actor.
Biography
Contreras was born in Santiago, Chile in 1947 and emigrated to neighboring Argentina following the 1973 coup d'état against left-w ...
as Ernesto
* Tatiana Astengo as Maruca
* Sergio Hernández as Don Álvaro
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Maricarmen Arrigorriaga
Maricarmen Arrigorriaga Aguirre (born 1957 in Santiago) is a popular Chilean film and soap opera actress.Daniel Muñoz as Ray
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Katty Kowaleczko
Katarzyna Helena Kowałeczko Henríquez (Santiago de Chile, Santiago, 2 October 1964), better known as Katty Kowaleczko or Katty Ko, is a Chilean people, Chilean actress of Polish People, Polish ancestry.
Early life
Ko started her career at a y ...
as Lorena
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Fernando Larraín
Fernando José Larraín de Toro (born September 21, 1962 in Santiago, Chile, Santiago) is a Chilean comedian and film/television actor. He is of Basque people, Basque descent.
Fernando started his career with the humoristic trio "Fresco y Natura ...
as Manuel Eduardo
* Alex Zisis as Cesár
* Heidrun Breier as Jane
* Rosa Ramírez as Fresia
* Roxana Campos as Mercedes
* Koke Santa Ana as Enrique
* Carmen Disa Gutiérrez as Maggie
* Víctor Mix as Oldman Matías
* Jorge Gajardo as Pablo
* Mónica Carrasco as María Inés
* Marés González as Gabriela's Grandmother
* Viviana Herrera as Francisca
* Alfonso G. Santisteban as Father Sergio
Production
Principal photography
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Personnel
Besides the main film personnel, such as the ...
began in September 2005 and ended in January 2006 in the
Valparaíso Region
The Valparaíso Region (, ) is one of Chile's 16 Regions of Chile, first order administrative divisions.Valparaíso Region, 2006 With the country's second-highest population of 1,790,219 , and fourth-smallest area of , the region is Chile's sec ...
.
Release
It premiered on April 26, 2007, in Chilean theaters, and at the end of that month it had its world premiere at the
Tribeca Festival
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. Later, the film was screened at the end of September 2007 in the Horizontes Latinos section of the 55th
San Sebastián International Film Festival
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and on March 29, 2008, at the Toulouse Latin America Film Festival.
Reception
Box-office
After 9 weeks on the billboard, it caught a total of 8.794 viewers, collecting $20.905.956
Chilean peso
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