Cautiva

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Gaston Biraben's political thriller Cautiva Captive concerns itself with what happened to the children of the people killed after the 1970s military coup. Cristina Quadri Barbara Lombardo is the model of a perfect student. Smart and affluent, her life is in perfect order until, one day, she is called from her class and made to appear in front of a judge. The judge informs her that her real parents were killed in the '70s. Cristina is forced to go live with her grandmother Elisa Susana Campos, who has spent the ...
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Overview

Gaston Biraben's political thriller Cautiva Captive concerns itself with what happened to the children of the people killed after the 1970s military coup. Cristina Quadri Barbara Lombardo is the model of a perfect student. Smart and affluent, her life is in perfect order until, one day, she is called from her class and made to appear in front of a judge. The judge informs her that her real parents were killed in the '70s. Cristina is forced to go live with her grandmother Elisa Susana Campos, who has spent the past 20 years attempting to locate Cristina whose birth name was Sofia. Although, at first, she is hurt, bitter, and confused, Cristina/Sofia eventually grows to care for Elisa and begins to research the fate of her parents. Captive was an award winner at the 2003 San Sebastian Film Festival.
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Special Features

Original theatrical trailer
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Editorial Reviews

All Movie Guide - Josh Ralske
A finely wrought coming-of-age drama that crackles with political tension, Gaston Biraben's Captive engages the real world in honest terms to deliver an emotional wallop. Based on a true story, the film occasionally strains credulity with the Nancy Drew-style heroics of Cristina's (Barbara Lombardo) buddy Angelica (Mercedes Funes), but the authentic setting, the intelligent, restrained presentation of the potentially sensational material, and the fiercely naturalistic performances of these two young women allow the audience to suspend disbelief. Lombardo, in particular, shoulders a huge burden, but her well-calibrated performance gives us access to Cristina's emotional turmoil as she learns the shocking truth about her birth family and the seemingly loving, wealthy people who raised her. Without straying from the specific emotional truths of Cristina's story, Biraben creates a broad and compelling study of a people torn apart by fascism, then forced to live peacefully alongside those responsible for those years of terror. The film, which won the Horizons Award at the 2003 San Sebastian Film Festival and was shown at New Directors/New Films in 2004, is an auspicious debut for Biraben. With grace and passion, he reveals the last impact of unpunished brutality on a troubled nation's soul.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 9/11/2007
  • UPC: 741952313090
  • Original Release: 2003
  • Source: Koch Lorber Films
  • Time: 1:49:00
  • Format: DVD

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Barbara Lombardo Cristina, Sofia
Mercedes Funes Angelica
Susana Campos Elisa
Hugo Arana Judge
Osvaldo Santoro Pablo Quadri
Silvia Bayle Adela Quadri
Lidia Catalano Nurse
Margara Alonso Nun
Technical Credits
Gaston Biraben Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Marcelo Altmark Executive Producer
Norma Angeleri Casting
Tammis Chandler Co-producer, Editor
Mercedes Colombo Costumes/Costume Designer
José Luis Castiñeria de Dios Score Composer
Maria Ibanez Lago Art Director, Production Designer
Analía Lenchantin Score Composer
José Luis Score Composer
Abel Penalba Cinematographer
Romina del Prete Costumes/Costume Designer
Nora Spivak Art Director, Production Designer
Carlos Torlaschi Cinematographer
Raul Tosso Executive Producer
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Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Cautiva
1. Intro [4:29]
2. Blood Test [9:12]
3. Mother Superior [5:35]
4. The Federal Judge [7:22]
5. Run to Mother [3:56]
6. Captured [3:16]
7. Meeting Grandmother [12:08]
8. Dream [11:39]
9. Found As a Baby [1:32]
10. Back At School [4:58]
11. We'll Never Forget You [9:47]
12. Finding the Past [9:48]
13. Mother Named Me Sofia [9:51]
14. Confronting Parents [4:02]
15. Accepting a New Home [5:31]
16. Credits [4:05]
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Disc #1 -- Cautiva
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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    The Continuing Mystery of Argentina's 'Desaparecidos'

    CAUTIVA ('Captive') is a very effective film by young writer/director Gaston Biraben who has taken to task the impact of Argentina's 'Dirty War' of the late 1970s and succeeds in making a very personal story out of the horror of the 'desaparecidos' tragedy that stole from Argentina some of its brightest minds - and 'reassigned' the children of these 'disappeared ones' who were born in the prisons to political friends of the dictatorship. While the concept is gruesome as history and as content, Biraben manages to recreate that terrifying period of time in terms of the present. This retrospective study makes a huge impact. Cristina Quadri (the deeply impressive Bárbara Lombardo) lives with her parents in Buenos Aires, attending a Catholic girls' school, seemingly a happy young teenager. One regular day she is called to the principal's office and told she must visit a judge, a frightening concept for a young girl who is forced to go without informing her parents. The judge informs her that she is not 'Cristina Quadri' but instead 'Sofía Lombardi', the daughter of a couple who 'disappeared' in 1978 as political prisoners. A recent blood test Cristina/Sofia thought was a follow-up for a post-op check was actually a test to match her blood with that of the newly discovered true parents' family. Cristina, stunned by her lack of true identity, confronts her 'adopted parents' and struggles with the officials who insist she be returned to her blood relatives. Cristina becomes close to another 'adopted' girl and the two explore their roots, finding that they were born in prisons and then given to police officials to be placed in homes. The transition from adopted to blood family is the path the film explores: despite the comforts of present life the girls must know their origins to fully realize their identities. The cast is uniformly strong, the concept of the film works well as Biraben snaps us back and forth between the World Cup Soccer Game in Buenos Aires in 1978 that contrasts so gravely with the concurrent underground disappearance of the intellects of the country, and the performance by Lombardo holds the credibility of the story well. There is a fine music score by José Luis Castiñeira de Dios that combines a suite for cello and piano with elements from Mozart's Requiem very effectively. This film has been awarded many prizes since its appearance in 2003: the prizes are justly deserved. Highly recommended viewing. Grady Harp

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