Lost Embrace
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Daniel Burman
Daniel Hendler
Adriana Aizemberg
Jorge D'elia
Sergio Boris
Diego Korol
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Ariel, a recent college dropout, has hopes of escaping a career behind the counter of his mother's lingerie store in a Buenos Aires shopping mall. The job does come with its perks, as tantalizing as helping beautiful women slip in and out of lingerie can be, but the tales of the shopkeepers have grown stale; dressing-room trysts with Rita can't go on forever; and Estela, his now pregnant ex-girlfriend, no longer needs him. It could grow into a comfortable routine, but with a passport to world travel and new adventures at his fingertips, Ariel seeks a life of greater aspirations. With a little "help" from Roman Polanski, Copernicus and John Paul I, his Polish passport will arrive soon enough, and the eccentric spirit of the mall and its shopkeepers will fade into memory. Ariel's certain to miss his best friend, Mitelman, and his stunning Lithuanian secretary, and he can't forget sexy Rita, the vixen of the Internet café who likes to model lingerie. Of course, long after Ariel departs, Joseph, his older brother, will still be settling scores from an office above the mall, and their mother, Sonia, will continue to run the lingerie shop. But before Ariel's dream of a new life in Europe can begin, he will first have to shake a head-spinning does of reality: his long-lost father is about to return. Ariel's father, Elias, left Argetina to fight in the Yom Kippur War but never returned to his family. Growing up, Ariel had heard stories about his father, both at home and from older shopkeepers at the mall, but the mystery of why Elias left the family shortly after Ariel was born, why he never returned, and why this seems to have left Ariel's mother and brother indifferent, has always bothered him. If the truth is to emerge, Ariel must stop running from Elias, allow his father to share his story, which includes old secrets about the mall and its shopkeepers, and, ultimately, accept a long-overdue embrace that has been lost to him for so long.
Director
Daniel Burman
Cast
Daniel Hendler
Adriana Aizemberg
Jorge D'elia
Sergio Boris
Diego Korol
Atilio Pozzobon
Silvina Bosco
Isaac Fain
Salo Pasik
Melina Petriella
Norman Erlich
Rosita Londner
Juan Jose Flores Quispe
Pablo Kim
Catalina Cho
Crew
Patricia Apter
Luis Bernardez
Marcelo Birmajer
Alejandro Brodersohn
Daniel Burman
Daniel Burman
Ramiro Civita
Diego Dubcovsky
Diego Dubcovsky
Martin Grignaschi
Cesar Lerner
J.m. Morales
Jose-maria Morales
Oscar Mulet
Amedeo Pagani
Roberta Pesci
Sebastian Ponce
Sebastian Ponce
Cristobal Renteria
Fernando Rivero
Marc Sillam
Maria Eugenia Sueiro
Natalia Urruty
Nerina Valido
Laura Vaqueiro
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of Best Actor (Daniel Hendler) at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival.
Winner of the 2004 Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Released in United States February 2004
Released in United States February 4, 2005
Released in United States October 2004
Released in United States on Video March 14, 2006
Released in United States Winter January 28, 2005
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival February 5-15, 2004.
Shown at Chicago International Film Festival October 7-21, 2004.
Released in United States Winter January 28, 2005
Released in United States February 2004 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival February 5-15, 2004.)
Released in United States February 4, 2005 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States on Video March 14, 2006
Released in United States October 2004 (Shown at Chicago International Film Festival October 7-21, 2004.)
