China ZorrillaFilmography

Touch the Sky

Actors: Chete Lera, Montse German, Raúl Arévalo, Facundo Arana, Veronica Echegui

Synopsis: A cynical former literature teacher falls for a pretty student who comes looking to him for advice in director Marcos Carnevale's tear-drenched drama. Pedro (Chete Lara) is an obnoxious, overbearing curmudgeon who lives his son Fidel (Raul Arevalo) but never has a kind word for the boy. While Read More

Conversaciones con mamá

Synopsis: A dignified mother who is about to become the recipient of some very bad news unexpectedly turns the tables on her recently laid-off son in director Santiago Carlos Oves' award-winning family drama. Jaime is a family man whose wife and two children mean the world to him. His 82-year-old mother has Read More

Besos en la Frente

Synopsis: With poignance and compassion, Carissa Carlos's gentle drama Besos en la Frente observes the heartbreaking conflict of intentions and signals between two friends with a considerable age difference between them. China Zorilla stars as the octogenarian Mercedes Arévalo, a Buenos Aires resident who Read More

Fotos del Alma

Synopsis: This humanistic melodrama purports to be the first film from Argentina to deal with the effects of AIDS in a straightforward manner as it examines the psychological effects of the disease upon a well-to do heterosexual couple preparing to wed. It is Pablo who is diagnosed HIV-positive. Although he Read More

La Nave de Los Locos

Synopsis: When a respected Native American chief is taken to trial for burning down a large multiplex adjacent to an ancient Mapuche burial ground, a seasoned lawyer comes to his defense in the courtroom. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

La Peste

Actors: William Hurt, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marc Barr, Robert Duvall, Raul Julia

Synopsis: Released directly on to video in the U.S., but exhibited on the festival circuit and in Europe, Plague is an adaptation of Albert Camus' novel and reteams filmmaker Luis Puenzo with actors Robert Duvall and William Hurt to tell the story of a South American city that must be cut off from the world Read More

Summer of the Colt

Actors: Héctor Alterio, China Zorrilla, Alexandra London-Thompson, Juan de Benedictis, Santiago Gonzales

Synopsis: This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, breaks and train his first horse; their 13-year-old Read More

Nunca Estuve en Viena

Actors: China Zorrilla, Sergi Mateu, Alberto Segado

Synopsis: Though they live together at their grandmother's country estate, each of the women in Nunca Estuve en Viena has a very different life. The youngest granddaughter, Adela, is not yet married. The oldest has been married off to a wealthy man, and the middle daughter has been adopted by the Read More

Guerriers Et Captives

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Federico Luppi, Leslie Caron, China Zorrilla

Synopsis: At the same time the last of the free Plains tribes in North America were being herded onto reservations, the Argentinians were similarly engaged on the plains Patagonia. In this drama, set in 1880, a colonel in the Argentine army has come to this remote region with his aristocratic French wife in Read More

Awaiting the Pallbearers

Synopsis: In this outrageous Spanish-language farce, the grandmother in a middle-class Argentine family opts to go to a neighbor's house and baby-sit, without telling anyone of her whereabouts. In the mean time, the sons of the family discover the corpse of another elderly woman and mistake the body for Read More

Contar Hasta Diez

Actors: Héctor Alterio, Oscar Martinez, Arturo Maly, Julia Von Grolman

Synopsis: Argentina's turbulent political history is an uncredited but clearly present protagonist in this rather slow-paced story about Ramon (Oscar Martinez) and his search for his brother Pedro in the capital city of Buenos Aires. Pedro has disappeared at a time of upheaval, after a military junta takes Read More

Pobre Mariposa

Actors: Graciela Borges, Lautaro Murúa, Pepe Soriano, Victor Laplace, Cipe Lincovsky

Synopsis: A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who Read More

Esperando la Carroza

Actors: Luis Brandoni, China Zorrilla, Antonio Gasalla, Julio de Grazia, Betiana Blum

Synopsis: This comedy satirizes Latin American soap operas in following a dysfunctional family. Mama Cora is a senile woman in her 80s who lives with her oldest son and his wife. Cora manages to make life unbearable with her presence. She is asked to baby-sit for the neighbor's kids for a few hours, but the Read More

Darse Cuenta

Actors: Luis Brandoni, Dora Baret, Lito Cruz, Oscar Ferrigno

Synopsis: In a sudsy rendition of the melodramatic turmoil of a doctor's personal life, this routine story focuses on the good doctor -- Carlos Ventura (Luis Brandoni) and his principle patient, a young man hit by a car and so badly hurt that the other doctors gave him up for dead. Ventura pours his Read More

La Invitacion

Actors: Rodolfo Beban, Graciela Alfano, Pepe Soriano, China Zorrilla

Synopsis: In this story about an arms dealer, the ostensible backdrop is a bloody gunfight between hundreds of leftists and rightists on June 20, 1973 near a bridge leading to the international airport in Buenos Aires. The spark that set off the shootings -- a full disclosure and death toll were never given Read More

Nobody's Wife

Actors: Luisina Brando, Julio Chaves, Rodolfo Ranni, China Zorrilla, Gabriela Acher

Synopsis: When a wife with two children discovers that her husband has been having an affair with another woman, she is so deeply wounded that she leaves home, will not talk to him again, and refuses to accept her mother's advice that she reconcile with the unfaithful spouse. Her world, as she had known it Read More

Los Ultimos Dias de la Victima

Actors: Federico Luppi, Soledad Silveyra, Ulises Dumont, China Zorrilla, Elena Tasisto

Synopsis: After a hitman assassinates someone involved in financial dirty-dealings, he goes back to the boss who had ordered the killing, and is asked to murder another man "who knows too much." And so the hitman proceeds to spy on his target through a window - and observes him in a sexual relationship with Read More

Pubis Angelical

Actors: Graciela Borges, Alfredo Alcon, Pepe Soriano, Silvia Pinal

Synopsis: Unlike the suggestive title, this is a mixed-up trilogy of tales about a woman dying of cancer and the kidnapping of a petroleum magnate, the woman's memories about the tycoon, and the woman's imaginary vision of herself as someone living in the 1930s married to an arms dealer. All three stories Read More

Los Gauchos Judios

Actors: Pepe Soriano, Luis Politti, Luisina Brando, Raul Lavie

Synopsis: It is not widely known that Argentina, which is thought to have harbored many ex-Nazis (such as Josef Mengele), is also the home of a large and well-established population of Jews who fled the pogroms of Russia near the turn of the century and settled in the Argentine countryside. This film tells Read More

Triangulo de Cuatro

Actors: Graciela Borges, Thelma Biral, Federico Luppi, Juan Jose Camero, Jorge Rivera Lopez

Synopsis: Love does not conquer all in this romantic melodrama. Laura (Thelma Biral) is an upper-class beauty, married comfortably but boringly to Felipe (Federico Luppi). Her young lover Martin (Juan Jose Camero) tries to persuade her to leave the marriage and enter a love-union with him, but to no avail. Read More

La Tregua

Synopsis: Life has lost its savor for the middle-aged widower in this drama. He keeps on at his job, but his grown children are a puzzle to him. One of his sons treats him with surly indifference when he sees him, which isn't often. The other son, it is increasingly clear, is a homosexual. However, when he Read More

La Maffia

Synopsis: The names have been changed to protect the guilty in this crime thriller that is based on the exploits of Argentine mafiosi in the '20s and '30s. Francesco Donato (Jose Slavin) is the current godfather of the Argentine mafia, but his assistant Luciano (Alfredo Alcon) wants his job. He believes he Read More

Heroina

Actors: Graciela Borges

Synopsis: This well-acted psychological drama was wildly popular in its native Argentina, in part because it was based on the best-selling novel Heroina by Emilio Rodrigue. With a dispassionate, measured tone, it tells the story of a well-to-do girl, Penny (Graciela Borges), who seeks psychiatric help after Read More