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EL BAILE Y EL SALÓN

THE BALLROOM

By Ivan PORRAS

LA FERIA PRODUCCIONES - as PROD

Comedy - Completed 2016

Eugenio is a retired soccer star who blames himself for never winning a championship. Now at age 72, he gets one last chance at victory, but this time in a Latin dance contest.

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Countries
- COSTA RICA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Director(s)
- Ivan PORRAS
- Writer(s)
- Ivan PORRAS
- Producer(s)
- Karolina HERNADEZ (Dos Sentidos Producciones), Marcela ESQUIVEL (La Feria Producciones)
- Synopsis
- Eugenio Miranda, a 72-year-old former star soccer player, is sent to a nursing home by his family against his will. Bitter because he never won a trophy, he finds an opportunity to redeem himself in a dance tournament for the elderly. Along with his dance partner Carmen, Eugenio struggles to learn the rhythms of salsa, cumbia and bolero.
  When Carmen unexpectedly dies on the dance floor, Eugenio makes a radical decision and starts rehearsing with their dance instructor, Daniel -- a homosexual man in his 70s. Getting close to a gay man bothers Eugenio at first, but he soon realizes that with Daniel, they have a real shot at winning.
  As Eugenio’s family attempts to keep him out of the competition, Eugenio faces their prejudices and his own, determined to finally lift a trophy.