Magallanes

Magallanes sees his humdrum life turn upside down the day Celina, a women he met in the violent years when he was a soldier with the Peruvian Army, jumps into his taxi in a Lima street. This unexpected re-encounter with the dark past that unites them prompts Magallanes to embark on a daring plan to help Celina get money and find his own redemption.

Salvador del Solar

Magallanes is the directorial debut by Salvador del Solar (Lima, 1970), who has a long career behind him as an actor, having worked in more than 12 feature films and a great many television and theatre projects. Particularly outstanding is his leading role in Francisco Lombardi’s Pantaleón y las visitadoras (2000), and his participation in Juan Felipe Orozco’s Saluda al diablo de mi parte (Greetings to the Devil, 2010) and Javier Fuentes-León’s El elefante desaparecido (2014). Before making his first feature, he wrote and helmed the short film Pescar 2 veces.

Filmography

Magallanes – LM / feature – réalisateur / director
2000 – Pantaleón y las visitadoras – LM – acteur / actor
2010 – Saluda al diablo de mi parte – acteur / actor
2014 – El elefante desaparecido – acteur / actor
Pescar 2 veces – CM / short – scénariste / script / guión – réalisateur/ director

Original title
Magallanes
International title
Magallanes
Direction
Salvador del Solar
Country
Pérou
Année
2014
Picture
Diego Jiménez
Cutting
Edison Rincón
Music
Federico Jusid
Actors
Damián Alcázar, Magaly Solier, Federico Luppi, Christian Meier, Bruno Odar, Jairo Camargo
Original version
Espagnol
Production
Tondero Producciones, Péndulo Films
Coproduction
Cinerama, Cepa Audiovisual