Iluminados Por El Fuego

Infobox Film
name = Iluminados por el Fuego


caption = Theatrical poster
director = Tristán Bauer
producer = Ana de Skalon Carlos Ruta
writer = Tristán Bauer
starring = Gastón Pauls Pablo Riva César Albarracín Hugo Carrizo
music = León Gieco
cinematography = Javier Julia
editing = Alejandro Brodersohn
distributor =
released = September 8, 2005
runtime = 100 minutes
country = Argentina
language = Spanish
budget = $
imdb_id = 0288569|

"Blessed by Fire" (Spanish: "Iluminados por el Fuego") (2005) is a Argentine drama film written and directed by Tristán Bauer. The picture features Gastón Pauls, Pablo Riva, César Albarracín, Hugo Carrizo, among others. [imdb title|id=0288569|title=Iluminados por el fuego.]

The film was nominated for twenty-two awards and won fourteen of them.

Plot

A powerful Argentine antiwar film in the tradition of American Vietnam films such as Full Metal Jacket and Coming Home, Blessed By Fire is the story of two young men sent to fight the 1982 war in the Falkland Islands (or as they are known in Argentina, the Malvinas) who return home bearing the brutal scars of war.

Twenty years after the war's end, journalist Esteban Leguizamón (Gastón Pauls) is informed that Alberto Vargas (Pablo Ribba), one of the men he served with, has attempted to commit suicide after suffering from years of depression brought on by his experiences in the war. Esteban visits the comatose Vargas at the hospital, and in a series of extended flashbacks, revisits the scene of Argentina's "unwinnable war."

Esteban and fellow soldiers Vargas (Pablo Ribba, the man in the coma) and Juan (Cesar Albarracin) are living in foxholes on the remote, windswept Malvinas, battling hunger, boredom, abuse, and the deprivations of war as they await the arrival of English forces. A series of harrowing battle scenes with English forces ensue, and the Argentines realize the futility and violence of their mission. They're cannon fodder, overwhelmed, outnumbered, pawns in a futile political game.

Back in the present, Esteban returns to the Malvinas to come to terms with himself and the past. These emotional final scenes were shot on location in the Malvinas, the first Argentine film to do so, and as Esteban looks over the still off-limits battlefields filled with mines, live ammunition, and rusting military equipment, the futility of war is abundantly clear. Controversial in its homeland and politically relevant in the U.S, Blessed By Fire is a moving tribute to the veterans of all wars and the psychological burdens they bear

Cast

* Gastón Pauls as Esteban Leguizamón
* Pablo Riva
* César Albarracín
* Hugo Carrizo
* Virginia Innocenti
* Juan Leyrado
* Arturo Bonín

Awards

Wins

Silver Condor :Graciela Fraguglia,Alejandro Brodersohn,Tristán Bauer,Edgardo Esteban,Miguel Bonasso,Gustavo Romero Borri,Virginia Innocenti.

External links

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* [http://www.cinenacional.com/peliculas/index.php?pelicula=2420 "Iluminados por el fuego"] at the cinenacional.com sp icon