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Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1999
Garage Olimpo posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

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MOVIE1999 1h 38m ITA

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Like Garage Olimpo, it confronts Argentina’s dictatorship-era wounds through an intimate, morally charged story, balancing personal loss with the enduring force of memory and institutional impunity.

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A restrained, deeply unsettling Argentine drama about private life colliding with the concealed crimes of the dictatorship, carrying Garage Olimpo’s moral urgency without turning suffering into spectacle.

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This claustrophobic prison drama shares the political repression and intimate psychological pressure of Garage Olimpo, centering on a fragile, evolving bond between two imprisoned men.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

The film tells of Maria (Antonella Costa), an activist fighting the Argentinian military dictatorship during the Dirty War.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Antonella Costa

Antonella Costa

Maria

Pablo Razuk

Tex

Marcos Montes

Vibora

Enrique Piñeyro

Enrique Piñeyro

Tigre

Dominique Sanda

Diane