Story
With his absurd tragicomedy about a fallen jockey, Argentine director Luis Ortega once again shows himself to be a cinematic visionary with a unique style. Remo Manfredini was once a celebrated jockey. But his self-destructive behaviour outshines his talent more and more and endangers his relationship with his girlfriend Abril. On the day of the most important race of his career, with which he wants to pay off his debts to the mafia boss Sirena, Remo has a serious accident. When he regains consciousness, he disappears from the hospital and wanders through the streets of Buenos Aires. Freed from his image and identity, he begins to discover who he really wants to be. But Sirena wants to find him at any price, dead or alive.
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Director
LUIS ORTEGA (*1980 in Argentina) has been one of the most exciting voices of Argentine cinema since his first two feature films Caja negra (2002) and Monobloc (2005). His serial killer biopic The Black Angel was Argentina's Oscar candidate in 2019.Info
El Jockey
Fiction Feature
Spanish
Vitrina | FF2024
Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Denmark, USA
2024
96 min
OV with German and English subtitles
Luis Ortega
Fabian Casas, Luis Ortega, Rodolfo Palacios
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Úrsula Corberó, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mariana Di Girolamo, Daniel Fanego, Osmar Núñez, Roberto Carnaghi, Luis Ziembrowski, Jorge Prado, Adriana Aguirre, Roly Serrano
Benjamín Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda, Luis Ortega, Esteban Perroud, Axel Kuschevatzky, Cindy Teperman, Charlie Cohen, Paz Lázaro, Nando Vila
Timo Salminen
Guido Berenblum, Javier Umpiérrez, Claus Lynge
Rosario Suárez, Yibrán Asuad
Sune Rose Wagner
Julia Freid
Beatriz Di Benedetto
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