International Courant
Beta Cinema has bought the North American rights for “Adios Buenos Aires” to Outsider Footage, which plans to launch the charming comedy drama in spring 2024 all through the US and Canada.
The a number of viewers award winner has additionally bought to Argentina (Cinetren), South Korea (Challan), Israel (Nachshon Movies), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo Audiovisuais), Switzerland (Xenix Movie Distribution), Bulgaria (Beta Movie) and former Yugoslavia (Discovery ). Spafax has picked up chosen airline rights.
“Adios Buenos Aires” is directed by German Kral (“Our Final Tango,” “Música Cubana”) and was impressed by the true tragic occasions that shook Argentina in late 2001 when the federal government’s sudden freeze of all financial institution accounts, referred to as the ” Corralito” in Argentina, led to large protests, ensuing within the downfall of the federal government.
The movie begins in Buenos Aires in November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in disaster, with the peso plunging deeper and deeper. Julio Färber, the charismatic bandoneon participant of the Vecinos de Pompeya, a five-piece working-class tango band, is making an attempt to maintain his head above water, however each month he’s incomes much less and fewer from their gigs in addition to from the standard shoe store he inherited from his father.
On the very second he takes the choice to depart his beloved Buenos Aires perpetually, it clearly seems that life is conspiring in opposition to him: in a single day, the federal government freezes all financial institution accounts in the entire nation, stopping Julio from buying the flight tickets and sparking violent protests all through the city. And Mariela, a witty younger lady and feisty cab driver, bumps into his automobile at full pace, damaging Julio’s final possession of worth earlier than stealing his coronary heart.
The solid is led by Diego Cremonesi (“Kryptonite,” “I am Gilda,” “The Bronze Backyard”) and Marina Bellati (“Betibú,” “Sunstrokes,” “No Youngsters,” “Maradona: Blessed Dream”), alongside Carlos Portaluppi, Manuel Vicente, Rafael Spregelburd, Mario Alarcón and Luis Ziembrowski.
“Goodbye Buenos Aires”
“Adios Buenos Aires” is produced by Nils Dünker for Lailaps Movies, Dieter Horres for Horres Movie & TV and German Kral Filmproduktion in Germany, alongside Monogatari Movies and Carolina M. Fernández and Jorge Leandro Colás for Salamanca Cine in Argentina. Daniel Pensa and Miguel Ángel Rocca function government producers.
The movie is coproduced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and ARTE and supported by BKM, INCAA, FFF Bayern, BBF, FFA and MEDIA. It was launched theatrically in Germany in Could 2023.
Kral’s documentary “Música Cubana” (2004), government produced by Wim Wenders, had its worldwide premiere on the 2004 Venice Movie Pageant. “The Final Applause” (2009), which he directed and produced, obtained the FFF Expertise Award and the Metropolis of Munich’s Starter Movie Prize. “Our Final Tango” (2015) premiered on the Toronto Movie Pageant earlier than touring the festivals world-wide and gained a number of awards, together with the Bavarian Movie Award for greatest pictures, in addition to the viewers awards at each the Washington DC Movie Pageant and the Bolzano Movie Pageant in Italy.
