El portón de los sueños (1998): Besetzung, Handlung & Streaming

Released in 1998, El portón de los sueños is a dokumentarfilm film directed by Hugo Gamarra Etcheverry, running about 90 minutes.

What it’s about. The film mixes fiction and documentary in an unconventional cinematographic style, to narrate a poetic adventure that encounters the mythical universe of the writer and the Paraguay of yesterday and today. Augusto Roa Bastos, the greatest Paraguayan writer and 1989 Cervantes Prize winner, author of "The Thunder Between the Leaves", "Son of Man", "Yo el Supremo" and "El Fiscal" among others, returns from exile and undertakes a geographical journey and at the same time dreamlike to Iturbe, his childhood town, searching for the land and the characters of his literary fictions to write his novel titled "Contravida." The writer thus participates in a dual condition: as an interpreter of Paraguayan reality and as a protagonist of his own imaginary universe.

Who’s in it. El portón de los sueños stars Justina Aguero, Rosa Elena Blanco, Juanita Espinola and Alba María López, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 9.5/10, El portón de los sueños sits among the best-reviewed titles in the catalogue.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch El portón de los sueños page.

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