POST MORTEM

By Pablo LARRAIN

FABULA - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2010

In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.

    • Year of production
    • 2010
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • CHILE, MEXICO
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Director(s)
    • Pablo LARRAIN
    • Synopsis
    • Mario, 55, works in a morgue typing autopsy reports. In the midst of the 1973 Chilean coup, he fantasizes about his neighbor Nancy, a cabaret dancer, who mysteriously disappears on September the 11th. After a violent Army raid on her family's home, he hears about the arrest of her brother and father, a prominent Communist and Salvador Allende supporter. Troubled and madly passionate over the loss of his would-be lover, Mario begins his frantic search for Nancy.