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RICARDO BÄR

By Gerardo NAUMANN, Nele WOHLATZ

Documentary - Completed 2012

Festivals
& Awards

BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2013

Argentinian Competition

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ARGENTINA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 93 mn
- Director(s)
- Gerardo NAUMANN, Nele WOHLATZ
- Writer(s)
- Gerardo NAUMANN, Nele WOHLATZ
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-3302-0000-1-0000-0000-Y
- Producer(s)
- Christoph BEHL, Gerardo NAUMANN, Nele WOHLATZ
- Synopsis
- Ricardo Bär, the main character in this documentary, is a young Evangelist from Colonia Aurora, in the province of Misiones, who is on a path to become a pastor one day. Like him, most of the people there share a series of characteristics: they’re descendants of Germans, devoted of the Baptist church, and due to their closeness to the border, they all speak portunhol.
  The directors make a series of trips to Aurora and closely follow Ricardo’s life in and with the community. This documenting leads the directors to face a series of important difficulties: neither the pastor, nor Ricardo, nor the community wishes to be filmed anymore. At that point is where the great accomplishment of the film is revealed: in the manifestation of these difficulties, dilemmas, dialogues, conflicts, and problems the filmmakers must deal with in order to carry on with the film; and also, especially, in the problems that arise between them and the locals.
  Only after they give their explanations at the at the church, and through a public referendum they themselves witness, the film will be able to continue.