Portable Country

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Portable Country is a classical Venezuelan film about the urban guerrilla. Based on the novel of the same name, written by Adriano González León, the film centers on Andrés Barazarte, a disillusioned man from a wealthy landowning family, who grapples with his personal and political identity in the midst of Venezuela's tumultuous social changes and engages in the guerrilla. He reflects on his life, his family's decline, and the broader struggle for power in a country torn between tradition and revolution.The story unfolds as Andrés is tasked with transporting a mysterious package. This journey becomes a metaphor for his search for meaning and a confrontation with his family’s, and his country's, violent past. His recollections weave together with present events, creating a complex tapestry of memory and history.

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24-01-1979

Release Date

VE

Country

6.2

Rating

4

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Age Rating

102 min

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Released

Status

Spanish

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Director
Antonio Llerandi

Antonio Llerandi

He was born in Caracas on August 21, 1943. He combined his university studies with a theatrical activity. He receives cinematographic formation along with Mario Robles in the realization of Image of Caracas (1965-68). His first cinematographic work Pequeño Mundo dates from 1973. In 1975 in company of Iván Feo he realizes, by initiative of INCIBA / National Council of the Culture, the films Descarga. Also in company of Iván Feo directs his firs full length feature Portable Country based on the homonymous novel of Adriano González Leon, giving place to one of the most important films of the venezuelan cinematography.   His next film Adiós Miami, is a comedy of black humor about the contradictions and miseries of a Venezuelan who has ascended on the social scale on the basis of easy wealth.   With Profundo, his third feature, based on the play by José Ignacio Cabrujas, Llerandi elaborates a comedy with deep popular roots and, essentially, Latin American.
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