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THE BLACK

By Mauricio MINOTTI

TRES MARES - as PROD

Biography - Development 2021

The great boxing champion, Carlos Monzón, is portrayed as a Greek tragedy hero. A humble boy in search of love and respect, Carlos stubbornly behaves in ways that will eventually destroy the objects of his pursuit. The ''Latino Macho'' experiences his masculinity as violence.

Festivals
& Awards

Ministry of Culture of Santa Fe 2017
Incentive Development Award
Polo Audiovisual Córdoba 2017
development of documentary feature films
INCAA 2018
Incubator Documentary Award
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    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Biography
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA, ITALY, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Mauricio MINOTTI
    • Writer(s)
    • Pio LONGO
    • Synopsis
    • The great boxing champion, Carlos Monzón, is portrayed as a hero of Greek tragedy. The story of his sporting merits has been told; also the history of the femicide. But always separately: Argentina is characterized by having a contradictory relationship with its idols. Here we will tell how a boy from a very humble origin seeks love and respect but, to achieve them, he insists on the same behaviors that lead him to destroy what he is after. As in any tragedy, we do not seek to justify, but to understand; understand us and warn us.
      Carlos grows up in an environment of extreme poverty. He spends hours in the bush killing animals for food and
      walking on horseback. He himself says that he learned to be a man as a child, watching animals. The hours in the mountains are also those of playing westerns and being the bandit who gallops away from the police with a loot of fruit or chickens, or starring in episodes of justice by his own hand. Perhaps his idea of ​​being a man is also forged in the heat of those stories.
      Already settled with his family in the suburbs of Santa Fe, Carlos continues to be obsessed with making himself respected and, in every situation in which he feels violated, he reacts to the punches. He fights at school, which he eventually leaves. On the street and at night, which he frequents more and more. And at work, always hard and badly paid.
      Carlos finds boxing and, apparently, a path to everything he dreamed of. He trains with a lot of discipline and he
      sports director endows him with a suitable strategy: the counterattack. A distrustful, resentful and
      With malnutrition problems, he becomes one of the best boxers in history. An athlete
      remarkable, which compensates for his thinness with strategy, discipline, and a mentality based on the idea that his opponent "wants to take the food out of his children." Carlos Monzón does not go into the ring to fight with his opponents, but to destroy them.
      In parallel, he knows love by naturalizing violence and jealousy. With the fame and success that sport gives him but also the world of cinema and entertainment, all these problems are exacerbated. Carlos fights for the recognition of the press and public opinion and suffers when he does not get it at all. They criticize his personal life, but not because of his violence with women, but because of his arrogance, being of such humble origin; and also because of his boxing style, effective but not very showy.
      Carlos feeds his resentment and takes revenge whenever he can, blinded. From Europe and with the decisive participation of Alain Delon, he rounds off a character that legitimizes his destructive ways and
      he feels that this way he wins the game. Nothing further: The character of the "Latino Macho" devours a Carlos Monzón who experiences his masculinity as violence. A violence so effective to win in the ring as to destroy everything he loves.
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