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LOS DESPROTEGIDOS, THE REPUBLIC OF BROKEN DREAMS

LOS DESPROTEGIDOS

By Ignacio QUARANTA

True Story - Development 2024

2004, Buenos Aires city, Juan Leone is expelled from
high school and joins a neighborhood rock band called
"Los Desprotegidos" (The exposed). His life will never be the same after the Cro-Magnon tragedy.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- True Story, Social issues, Drama
- Countries
- ARGENTINA
- Languages
- SPANISH-ARGENTINE
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 98 mn
- Director(s)
- Ignacio QUARANTA
- Writer(s)
- Ignacio QUARANTA, Jorge BENJARDINO
- Cast
- Matias RECALT
- Producer(s)
- Débora GIAMMARINI (ALFONSINA AL MAR CINE), Jorge BENJARDINO (1.21GW)
- Synopsis
- "In the early 2000s, Buenos Aires is the perfect place for the emergence of thousands of underground rock bands after the social and economic crisis in Argentina. Juan Leone is an aimless teenager who only finds solace in music and friendship. Emiliano, his older brother, returns to his mother's home with his partner. This creates a disturbing dysfunction in Juan's family, who is expelled from school for repeated behavioral problems. He begins working as a house moving guy with Cristian, the drummer of a neighborhood rock band called “Los Desprotegidos”(The Exposed).
  Juan and Cristian develop a bond of brotherhood, while they discover a shared passion for rock and for being part of a band. Emiliano, singer and guitarist of ""Los Desprotegidos"", decides to leave the band since he needs to save money for the arrival of his first child. Cristian perceives this decision as a betrayal, paving the way for Juan to fulfill his lifelong dream: to be the lead guitarist of the band.
  As he settles in ""Los Desprotegidos"" under the shadow of his older brother. Love, bad companies and drugs appear in Juan's life. His whole world breaks into pieces after the night of December 30, 2004, when Cro-magnon is engulfed by flames in a mid-concert and 194 people lose their lives. This tragic night is a turning point in the family environment of the brothers who had attended the show. Emiliano tries to save Juan and his friends, but dies inside the burning building. Juan tries to heal that wound by taking charge of a family shattered by the void left by his dead brother."