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Mario Benedetti

Mario Benedetti

Mario Benedetti, was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet as well as being an integral member of the Generación del 45. In spite of publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world, but in the Spanish-speaking world he was considered one of Latin America's most important writers from the latter half of the 20th-century.

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Movies Made By Mario Benedetti (8)

The Truce (2003)

Martín Santomé has been working in an office for the last 50 years, but his life will change when he starts falling in love with a woman named Laura Avellaneda. ...

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The Dark Side of the Heart (1992)

Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aire ...

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Thanks for the Fire (1984)

The failure of Budiño Ramon, who plans first murder of his father and is recognized after unable to carry it out, is due largely to the general attitude of a society that tolerates no dramatic gestures. However, the inadequacies of radical class, beliefs, ...

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Las sorpresas (1975)

"The Surprises" is an episode film. In the episode Five Years of Life an unknown man and woman spend a night locked in a subway station. In Corazonada, a domestic employee takes revenge on her employer by making her son fall in love and in The Wells there ...

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The Truce (1974)

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future. ...

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Movies Starring Mario Benedetti (4)

Words of Truth (2004)

The documentary looks in the life and work of Mario Benedetti, especially in his poetic work, the keys to an illustrious Montevideo. A man who has had to live several exiles and has received all the awards that this world can give. But above all, the affec ...

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The Dark Side of the Heart (1992)

Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aire ...

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Onetti, Portrait of a Writer (1990)

A long interview with Uruguay's greatest writer, in Madrid a few months before his death. From his bed, Onetti talks about literature, creativity, and his origins. ...

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