Garage Olimpo

Garage Olimpo

★ 6.9IMDb Score
Released:1999-09-02
Genre:Drama
Duration:98 min
Director:Marco Bechis
Actors:Antonella Costa, Carlos Echevarría, Enrique Piñeyro, Pablo Razuk, Dominique Sanda
Production:Classic Productions, Paradis Films, Nisarga

Overview:

María is eighteen years old, she lives with her mother in an old house in Buenos Aires in 1978, subletting rooms and giving classes to poor illiterate adults. Suddenly she is abducted by a military squad and finds herself accused of subversion and submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo, while her mother desperately tries to find her.

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