The presenter of the Paterna Film Festival return with the projection of 'The Year of Fury'
After a new parenthesis due to the health crisis, the Paterna Film Festival, along with the Kinépolis Valencia cinemas, will resume next Tuesday, May 25, its cycle of presentations of the most important Spanish films of the year.A project that started in March 2017, and that since then has hosted almost fifty events with the assistance of prestigious filmmakers and performers of our industry.
Those in charge of starting the meetings again will be the director and screenwriter Rafa Russo and actress Martina Gusman, who will go to present the Spanish-Uruguayan production "the year of fury", set in the year that preceded the military coup of1973 in Uruguay.
For the Madrid filmmaker, the tape is his return to the fourteen years after his first film, love in self -defense, while the Argentine actress arrives in Valencia in the phenomenon of El Innocent, the Netflix series in which he interprets theKimmy Dale character.In Argentina, Gusman jumped to fame after starring Leonera (2008) under the orders of Pablo Trapero, a filmmaker with whom he agreed again in the acclaimed Carancho (2010) and Elefante Blanco (2012), both with Ricardo Darín as co-protagonist.
With a cast in which Alberto Ammann, Joaquín Furriel, Daniel Grao or Maribel Verdú, 'The Year of Fury' also stand out in the convulso Montevideo of 1972.While the country irremissibly clears towards the cliff of the dictatorsHigh military who are taking over the country's control.
At the same time, on the side of the oppressors, an army lieutenant who has been pressed to torture militants or supporters of the Tupamaros guerrillas, exorcises his demons with a prostitute with whom he finds a kind of emotional refuge in the face of his strong feeling of guilt.
The film, which will arrive on the screens on Friday, May 28, is produced by Spanish by Gona Filmation and Aliwood Mediterráneo Producciones;And on the Uruguayan production side, by Cimarrón.It also has the participation of RTVE, Ministry of Culture (Icaa) and the Ibermedia program.The national distribution is carried out by Filmax.
Through the presenter of the Antonio Ferrandis, Kinépolis and the City of Paterna Festival, they intend to consolidate the connection between Valencia and the main names that make up Spanish cinema through different presenter and special presentations.
