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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

6.667 average rating
6.667
English / 115 MIN. / 2001

The Genres

The Synopsis

In El Idilio, a village on the banks of a river in the Amazon rainforest, Antonio Bolívar, known to everyone as "The Old Man," lives a recluse. One day, Antonio begins reading the romance novels that the traveling dentist Rubicondo Loachamin brings him to pass the time. He shares this occupation with a beautiful local girl, a waitress and prostitute, named Josefina, with whom he ends up falling in love. But all does not go smoothly when Antonio is forced to go on a hunting trip.

The Cast

Richard DreyfussTimothy SpallHugo WeavingCathy TysonVictor BottenbleyGuillermo ToledoFede CeladaLuis HostalotBehi Djanati AtaiJosse De PauwJerome EhlersJim van der WoudeDenis FouquerayAlberto DominguezDeen AbboudViviane EMIGRÉDuncan ThompsonChristian HolerJean-Pierre SoulatPeter GeselleGeorges LaflotteLionel BarsacqAlain DeryChristian GiovanettiPatrick CrepatEric GaudinotAndré LichauLaurent Yawalou

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