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1) Argentina
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Three-time Academy Award nominee Carlos Saura's latest foray into the music of Argentina explores the heart of traditional Argentine folklore and its stunning musical heritage, from traditional styles to modern dance.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the unspoiled wilderness of Tierra del Fuego, an island at the southern tip of Patagonia in South America. Shows the Magellanic penguins, elephant seals, right whales, and guanacos, who inhabit this stark, wind-whipped wilderness. Looks at the challenges they and their homeland face from human actions.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Zay Harding takes the road trip of a lifetime on one of the longest and most spectacular highways in the world, Argentina's Ruta 40, often called La Mitica Ruta 4,0 or the Mythical Route 40. Running the entire length of the country, from the border with Bolivia to the southern tip of Patagonia and along the edge of the Andes mountains, Zay completes a 3,000 mile journey from north to south across the entire country.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentine family and follows them to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. The family welcomes the doctor into their home and entrusts their young daughter to his care, unaware that he is a notorious war criminal. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring "the German doctor" to justice.
5) Tango
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience. Things become complicated when Mario falls in love with...
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 12
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Argentina, 1979. After years of exile, 12-year-old Juan and his family return to Argentina under fake identities. Juan's parents are Montoneros guerillas who are being tracked down relentlessly by the Military Junta that rules the country. However, Juan's daily life is also full of warmth and humor."--Container.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Teresa, a former maid, embarks on a journey through the desert. During her first stop, in the land of the miraculous "Saint Correa", she loses her bag with all her belongings. This unexpected incident leads her to cross paths with El Gringo, a traveling salesman and the only person who can help Teresa find her bag. What seemed like the end of her world will ultimately prove to be her salvation. Nominated for a Golden Camera Award and a Un Certain...
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A film that relives the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War (1976-83) through the experience of Horacio Pietragalla, a young man raised by the maid of the officer who kidnapped him after the military brutally murdered his parents. The film follows Horacio as he reconstructs the cause for which his real parents gave their lives, and, through this search, reclaims his true identity. This personal journey internalizes the tragedy that ravaged the country...
9) Ardor
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
When a gang of ruthless bandits set fire to a remote family farm and kidnap the farm-owner's daughter Vania, help arrives in the form of Kai a mysterious man who emerges from the rain forest. With the grace of a jaguar, Kai rescues Vania and plunges into a lethal game of cat-and-mouse with the gangsters. With the hornet's nest now stirred Kai and Vania must decide how far they will go to preserve the farm and their vanishing way of life.
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A nameless washed-up computer programmer walks off into the endless pampas after the train he is on breaks down in the middle of nowhere. We follow him as he wanders through forgotten towns, deserted hotels, abandoned highways and broken dreams, encountering along the road a succession of equally lost souls, including a globe-trotting gambler, a circus owner who performers left him "because the whole country was a circus" and a tarot reader with large...
11) Tetro
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Naive, 17-year-old Bennie goes to Buenos Aires to search for his older brother whom he has not seen for ten years. With the success of their father Carlo, a renowned symphony conductor, the family moved from Argentina to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, Tetro, he is surprised to find that he is not the person he remembered. While staying with Tetro and his girlfriend Miranda, the two brothers grapple with the haunting experiences of their...
12) The take
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory ... All they want is to re-start the silent machine, but this simple act- "the take" -threatens to turn the globalization debate on its head."--Label on videocassette container.
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Narrated by Laura's daughter Muriel, this movie is the story of two women, Laura and Mirta, and their daughters as they try to find happiness in their lives. The two women are thrown together by circumstances and despite the great differences in their approaches to life, work at transforming disappointments and misforunes of life into personal victories.
Ésta es la historia de dos mujeres pues intentan encontrar felicidad en sus vidas.
14) Queer nation
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Argentina may lead South America in terms of progressive social politics, but the gap between cultural values and recently accorded rights to gays, lesbians, and transsexuals is palpable and persistent. A toxic atmosphere is created from the all-encompassing Catholicism and machismo along with the complexity of class, historical, and rural-urban divides, as well as aboriginal-settler tensions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents the basic steps and moves of the tango milonguero, covering: tango milonguero; dancer positions; the salida and the salida 40; the hesitation and corte; the chase (la caza); the backward eights (ochos para atrás); firuletes (embellishments); linking backward eights with a clockwise turn; the clockwise turn.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (51 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the heart of South America, where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay collide, lies one of the most spectacular geographical secrets of the natural world, a place forged from the explosive clashing of the earth's tectonic plates. Over three miles long and 300 feet high, Iguaçu is the greatest waterfall on earth. Five times the size of Niagara, some 2000 tons of water pour over its 300 cascades each second. These awesome falls are also home to...
17) Canela
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Ayax Grandi, an architect from the city of Rosario, decided at 48 to become Canela. This film takes us through Canela's journey as she struggles to be true to herself and conform to societal norms. Fueled by this inner conflict, Canela embarks on a profound quest for self-discovery, seeking guidance from healthcare professionals, confiding in her children, and reconnecting with old friends. Along this path, Canela stumbles upon a surprising revelation...
18) Jauja
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (4 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Español
Description
Capitán Dinesen toma un trabajo con el ejército argentino y trae sus quince años de edad, hija, Ingeborg, junto. Al ser la única mujer en la zona, que provoca un gran revuelo entre los hombres. Ella se enamora de un joven soldado, y una noche que huir juntos. Cuando se da cuenta de lo que pasó Dinesen, decide aventurarse en territorio enemigo para encontrarlos.
Captain Dinesen takes a job with the Argentine army and brings his fifteen-year-old...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
No woman, before or since, has possessed as much magnetism and influence as Eva "Evita" Perón. During the 1950's, she was the most powerful woman in the Americas - capturing the heart and soul of the poor, whose causes she championed until her tragic death at age 33. Her stormy and passionate life brought so much hope to Argentina in an age of political power struggles, bloody coups, military oppression, and economic depression.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
This faithful and exhilarating representation of the 5th Buenos Aires Tango Festival brings to the screen all the squeezes of the accordion, quick kicks, and guttural songs of heartbreak, deceit and national pride.
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