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Waiting for the Messiah (2000)
Director: Daniel Burman
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Following a Tokyo financial crash, Buenos Aires bank clerk Santamaria (Piñeyro) loses his job, sees his marriage fall apart and winds up on the street. Scraping a living by returning stolen wallets, he meets Ariel (Hendler), a confused Jewish boy who wants to change the future mapped out future in his father's restaurant business and with the 'girl next door'. Through these carefully constructed, unconventional characters, ideas of Jewishness, sexual difference, loneliness and social exclusion are explored with humour and sensitivity.Author: JFu
Cast & crew
Director: Daniel Burman
Producer: Amedeo Pagani, Daniel Burman, Luis Angel Bellaba
Cast: Daniel Hendler, Stefania Sandrelli, Chiara Caselli, Enrique Piñeyro, Hector Alterio, Imanol Arias, Melina Petriella full cast
Duration: 97 mins
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