11/02/2003 - A Spanish/Argentinean co-production about the upheavals of 1976 - as seen by one 10-year-old boy called Harry

Kamchatka by Marcelo Piñeiro, a Spanish/Argentine co-production, was presented in the Panorama Special section at the Berlinale. The film is also Argentina's candidate for the best foreign language Oscar and was very well when it was released in Spain last year.
Set against the background of the early days of the 1976 "coup d'état" in Argentina, Kamchatka is about the consequences of political upheaval on a family made up of a ten-year-old boy called Harry, who is also the storyteller, his school teacher-mother (played by Cecilia Roth) and lawyer father (played by Ricardo Darín.
"I made this film in Argentina but all the post-production was done in Spain," said Francisco Ramos, the Spanish producer with Alquimia Cinema. "When I decide to make a film, the director's nationality does not matter. Obviously the situation in Argentina offers plenty of opportunities for future collaboration."
"Our country is experiencing a very serious crisis," said the Argentine producer Oscar Kramer, "and cinema has a fundamental role to play. We need to think about our history. Lots of countries are interested in Argentine filmmakers and the skills that our technicians invented."

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(Translated from Italian)