Augusto Roa Bastos Movies

Deep in the jungle, a drifter attempts to inspire revolt against his cruel boss’s slave labor practices, made more difficult by the arrival of...

Based on the life of María Salomé Loredo, a figure famous for her healings and assistance to the poor of the late nineteenth and first...

Story set at the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay.

The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth...

Three episodes about the influence of Satan: a black boxer commits killings under the influence of his manager.A pair of lovers is haunted by the...

The title of this story is taken from the name of the great Argentine singer Carlos Gardel, the idol of the antihero Toribio portrayed by Alberto...

The love story between a man and a woman, children of rival fishermen.

A man whose wife was murdered on the wedding night returns to town to marry another and is resisted by the locals.

A casual monitoring becomes an obsession when a young man finds a man who reminds him of something that happened in his childhood.

The film mixes fiction and documentary in an unconventional cinematographic style, to narrate a poetic adventure that encounters the mythical...

Plaquita, the widow of a Paraguayan officer, rescues a wounded sergeant who has been a companion of her husband. She takes care of him and nurtures...

A teacher arrives to a small village in Santiago del Estero and must educate children against the will of their parents.