Los Chicos de la Guerra (The Children of War) (1985)
Director: Bebe Kamin
Starring: Carlos Abbate, Luis Agustoni, Héctor Alterio (Pablo's Father), José Andrada, Emilio Bardi, Gustavo Belatti (Fabian), Jesús Berenguer, Guillermo Bernardo, Gisella Bonacci, Carlos Carella, Osvaldo Carreia, Vera Czemerinski, Alfonso De Grazia (Fabian's Father), Ulises Dumont, Miguel Erglis, Adrián Ferrario, Javier García, Veronica Gargani, Gabriela Giardino, Marta González (Pablo's Mother), Pablo Guzzo (Nadir Housman), Mario Iglesias, Bebe Kamin (Cameo, joven en discoteca), Nicolas Kuncher, Victoria Larroza, Juan Leyrado, Chany Mallo, Ricardo Manetti, Emilia Mazer, Gustavo Montalvo, Boy Olmi, Enrique Otranto, Norberto Pagani, Eduardo Pavlovsky, Dolly Pussi, Angela Ragno, Leandro Regúnaga (Santiago), Gabriel Rovito (Pablo), José Fabio Sancinetto, Tina Serrano (Fabian's Mother), Maria Socas, Miguel Ángel Solá, Elvira Vicario, Gustavo Vignozzi.
Four young Argentine soldiers in the 1982 Falklands War against Great Britain are followed from their first day at school to the Argentine defeat. The films is also a critique of the Argentinean military dictatorship and its society at the time of the war; a society of political corruption, terrorism and exaggerated nationalism.
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