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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)

Drama Adventure
Release Date: 2001, March 7
Directors: Rolf de Heer
Countries: Netherlands Antilles, Australia, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands
Production: SF Studios, Fildebroc, Magnetic Hall, Odusseia Films, Kino Visión, Vertigo Productions, France 2 Cinéma, Fandango
Cast: Hugo Weaving, Timothy Spall, Richard Dreyfuss, Alberto Dominguez, Cathy Tyson, Josse De Pauw, Jerome Ehlers, Guillermo Toledo, Behi Djanati Atai, Jim van der Woude, Fede Celada, Luis Hostalot

Overview:

In El Idilio, a village on the banks of a river in the Amazon rainforest, Antonio Bolívar, known to everyone as "The Old Man," lives a recluse. One day, Antonio begins reading the romance novels that the traveling dentist Rubicondo Loachamin brings him to pass the time. He shares this occupation with a beautiful local girl, a waitress and prostitute, named Josefina, with whom he ends up falling in love. But all does not go smoothly when Antonio is forced to go on a hunting trip.