ARGENTINA: FILM STAR ANTONIO BANDERAS BEGINS FILMING HIS LATEST MOVIE AT THE "CASA ROSADA" GOVERNMENT PALACE

Record ID: 392937

  • Title: ARGENTINA: FILM STAR ANTONIO BANDERAS BEGINS FILMING HIS LATEST MOVIE AT THE "CASA ROSADA" GOVERNMENT PALACE
  • Date: 20th July 2002
  • Summary: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (JULY 20, 2002) (REUTERS) WIDE OF ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT PALACE AT SUNRISE VARIOUS OF ANTONIO BANDERAS WALKING FROM CASA ROSADA TO MAKE-UP TRAILER WIDE OF LIGHTS BEING SET UP OUTSIDE GOVERNMENT PALACE SLV SECURITY IN CEREMONIAL UNIFORMS SLV MOVIE EXTRAS AND TECHNICIANS WORKING ON SET SMV BANDERAS LEAVING MAKE-UP TRAILER WIDE OF LIGHTING EQUIPMENT BEI
  • Embargoed: 4th August 2002 13:00
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  • Location: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
  • Country: Argentina
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA3LSHKG5AL7CID0VJLFHNHOWLV
  • Story Text: Argentina's "Casa Rosada" (Pink House) has temporarily
    been turned into a movie set as Spanish actor Antonio Banderas
    began filming his latest movie, "Imagining Argentina", in
    Buenos Aires.



    The Argentine government granted permission for
    filming on Saturday (July 20) at the Government Palace for the
    movie called "Imagining Argentina".

    About 100 fans and onlookers struggled to get a glimpse of
    Banderas as he shot different scenes for the film.

    "Antonio Banderas is my idol. He is phenomenal,
    impressive," said one Brazilian tourist.

    The movie will take place in the 1970s in Buenos Aires and
    will reference the plan of the regime to eradicate the leftist
    guerrillas by means of kidnapping and torture, leaving
    thousands of dead and disappeared.

    Banderas, who has starred in hit films such
    "Philadelphia," "Interview with a Vampire," and "Desperado,"
    arrived in the Argentine capital on July 12 and will stay
    through August.

    The Spanish actor and the English actress Emma Thompson
    both star in the movie, directed by Christopher Hampton,
    about the last military dictatorship of Argentina.

    Banderas will play an Argentine playwright that can
    discover, with only a look at the faces of the family members
    of the disappeared, the destiny of each one of the kidnap
    victims.

    But this ability will not help him when the soldiers
    kidnap his wife, played by Thompson, who is an opposition
    journalist. Thompson is scheduled to arrive in the first week
    of August.

    Based on the novel of the same title by Lawrence Thorton,
    "Imagining Argentina" is a coproduction between Spain and
    England.

    This will be the third time that Banderas films in
    Argentina where he was in "Of Love and Shade" and "Evita."
    The filming of the latter marked the last time a movie was
    shot at the "Casa Rosada".


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