"Violeta went to heaven" ( Spanish: Violeta se fue a los cielos ) - a biographical drama directed by Andres Wood , released on screens in 2011. The film is based on the biography of Angel Parra, the son of Violeta Parra and Louis Serceda Arena.
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| Violeta se fue a los cielos | |
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Andres Wood |
| Author script | Eliseo Altunaga Rodrigo Basaes Guillermo Calderon Andres Wood |
| In the main cast | Francisco Gavilan |
| Operator | Miguel Abal Miguel John Littin Menz |
| Composer | Violeta Parra |
| Film company | Agência Nacional do Cinema, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, Maíz Producciones, Wood Producciones |
| Duration | 110 min. |
| A country |  Chile  Argentina  Brazil |
| Tongue | Spanish French Polish |
| Year | 2011 |
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Story
The film tells about the life of the Chilean folk singer and artist Violeta Parr : her hard childhood in conditions of extreme poverty, traveling around the country in the company of numerous relatives to collect folk songs and perform at local holidays, a trip to Poland for a youth festival, meeting with a Swiss musician Gilbert Favre and their life together in Paris, where the exhibition of her works of art, the organization of the folklore center at home and suicide, which she made after the break with Gilbert, took place. The film sounds a lot of songs Violeta Parra performed by actress Francisco Gavilan.
Cast
- Francisco Gavilán - Violeta Parra
- Toma Durand - Gilbert Favre
- Christian Quevedo - Nicanor Parra
- Gabriela Aguilera - Hilda Parra
- Roberto Farias - Luis Arce
- Marcial Tagl - Alcalde Fernando Castillo
- Juan Quesada - Don Guillermo
- Stefania Barbagelata - Carmen Louise
Awards and nominations
- 2012 - Grand Prix of the Sundance Film Festival jury in the category “world cinema - drama” [1] .
- 2012 - nomination for the award “Goya” for the best foreign film in Spanish.
- 2012 - Nominated for the Argentine Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film in Spanish.
- 2012 - Ariel nomination for the best Latin American film.
- 2012 - FIPRESCI prize and the prize of the best actress (Francisco Gavilan) at the Guadalajara film festival [2] .
- 2012 - the second prize of the Havana Film Festival .
Notes
- ↑ 2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards . sundance.org (January 29th, 2012). The appeal date is November 18, 2017.
- ↑ Guadalajara International Film Festival (2012) . The appeal date is November 18, 2017.
Links
- "Violeta went to heaven" (Eng.) On the Internet Movie Database
- "Violeta went to heaven" (eng.) On the site allmovie