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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Rolf de Heer

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

  • Drama
  • Adventure
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RELEASE

2001-03-07

BUGET

$9.5M

LENGTH

115 min

Description

In El Idilio, a village on the banks of a river in the Amazon rainforest, Antonio Bolívar, known to everyone as "The Old Man," lives a recluse. One day, Antonio begins reading the romance novels that the traveling dentist Rubicondo Loachamin brings him to pass the time. He shares this occupation with a beautiful local girl, a waitress and prostitute, named Josefina, with whom he ends up falling in love. But all does not go smoothly when Antonio is forced to go on a hunting trip.