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"The search for the ghost that filmed the enigmatic and unique cult film of Uruguayan cinema"

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History, Documentary
Starring Alfonso Tort · Roxana Blanco · Emilio Silva Torres
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Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989 a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about Manuel Lamas its unknown creator Until now

Director
Emilio Silva Torres
Producers
Pablo Ratto, Juan Álvarez Neme, Virginia Bogliolo
Music
Maximiliano Silveira
Studio
Tarkiofilm Trivial Media
Original Title
Directamente para video
Original Language
Spanish
Keywords
cinema on cinema semi-documentary cinema history portrait of an artist portrait of a filmmaker semi-fiction montevideo, uruguay
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Cast

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A
Alfonso Tort
Film Director
R
Roxana Blanco
Blanca Giménez (voice)
E
Emilio Silva Torres
Self - Narrator (voice)
A
Agustín Ferrando
Self - Filmmaker
M
Mauro Sarser
Self - Filmmaker
S
Sebastián Rotstein
Self - Screenwriter
S
Santiago Calori
Self - Film Critic
D
Daniel Hendler
Self - Filmmaker
J
Julio Porley
Self - Filmmaker
G
Gustavo Zerbino Stajano
Self - Physician
M
Manuel Lamas
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)