A Place in the World
Directed by Adolfo Aristarain
Produced by Transmundo Films, INCAA
A meditative drama about idealistic exile and community, centered on the tension between pastoral refuge and the encroaching forces of development and progress.
Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.
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