Un traductor
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Title / Título (Original)
Un traductor
Title
A Translator
Release Date / Fecha de estreno
2018
Film Guide / Guía de película
Language / Idioma
Spanish / español
Country / País
Production Company / Compañía de Producción
Creative Artisans Media
Description / Descripción
Como consecuencia del accidente nuclear de Chernobil, Malin, un profesor de literatura rusa de la Universidad de La Habana es separado de su familia y su trabajo para ser reasignado como traductor entre los médicos cubanos y los niños que empiezan a llegar de la URSS para recibir tratamiento por exposición a la radiación. Arrancado del abstracto mundo académico dentro del implacable mundo de la medicina, Malin debe encontrar una solución para evitar su creciente depresión. (Film Affinity ES)
Based on the little-known true story of how twenty thousand Chernobyl victims were eventually treated in Cuba, Un Traductor unfolds as a tale at once historical and personal, brought to life in crisply shot, beautifully realized period detail of a Havana on the brink of economic crisis. Havana, 1989: Russian literature professor Malin (Rodrigo Santoro, of Westworld fame) receives a mysterious note at the university with orders from the government sending him to a local hospital, where he learns he is expected to act as translator between Cuban doctors and the families of young patients from the Chernobyl disaster. Initially raging against his new role, Malin is forced to stay on. He eventually becomes deeply devoted to his patients. But while he becomes “king of the kids” at the hospital, his relationships with his pregnant wife and young son suffer. Meanwhile, life around all of them shifts as the “Special Period”—the economic crisis in Cuba that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union—begins. (Pragda)
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“Un traductor,” Cinegogía, accessed April 25, 2024, https://cinegogia.omeka.net/items/show/739.