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THE LETTER OF THE LAW

LA LETRA DE LA LEY

By Fernán MIRÁS

First film - Completed 2016

A thriller that reveals the ups and downs of the judicial system of the '80s in a village in Argentina.

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- First film, Drama
- Countries
- ARGENTINA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Fernán MIRÁS
- Writer(s)
- Fernán MIRÁS, Roberto GISPERT
- Cast
- Fernan MIRAS , Paola BARRIENTOS, María ONETTO, Darío GRANDINETTI, Jorgelina ARUZZI, Darío BARASSI
- Producer(s)
- Fernando Ruben SOKOLOWICZ (Arco Libre )
- Synopsis
- Gloria is a lawyer and public defender of an inner city who is raffled as a defender of a man in a rape case, a circumstance that put on evidence the reality of a society riddled with prejudices and still fearful, in the context of Argentina on 1983 . The rape has happened in Escondido, a town of 300 inhabitants, full of strange characters. The amount of injustices accumulate in the legal file, the police abuse , the neglect of the experts and the inexperience of the judiciary employees, are some of the issues that the defense attorney has to deal with to save Gómez of a wrongful conviction