Alejo Hernün Taube

Filmography

2000 Estudio (short film)
2001 Ritos de frontera (doc., co-direction)
2004 Una de dos

He was born in Buenos Aires, in 1972. He studied music at the Escuela Superior de Jazz and filmmaking at the Universidad del Cine. One or the Other is his first feature film and won the prize for Best Film at the IV Buenos Aires Independent Cinema Festival "Lo Nuevo de Lo Nuevo".

 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

 ONE OR THE OTHER / Una de dos
Direction: Alejo Hernün Taube
Screenplay: Alejo Hernün Taube
Cinematography: Segundo Serrato
Editing: Alejo Hernün Taube, Alejandro Carrillo Penovi
Sound: Alejandro Alonso, Ricardo Stoschka
Sets: Martin Ameztoy
Music: Mariano Pinni, Andrés Clotta
Cast: Jorge Sesün, Jimena Anganuzzi, Renata Aielo, Ariel Staltari, Pablo de Nito, Vana Passeri
Producer: Alejo Hernün Taube
Production: Caos & Cosmos Cine & Cinema Digital
  35mm Colour 88'
Argentina 2004
SUMMARY
December 2002. Argentina is in a turmoil over the economic crisis and street demonstrations. The story unfolds in a rural town, seemingly not much affected by the events in the capital which are presented only in the form of actual TV news reports. Instead, the filmmaker concentrates on people living on the fringes of society who fall in love while they struggle to get by. Martin has made a lot of money passing on counterfeit coins. Pilar is from a good family which is rapidly slipping into poverty. A powerful erotic undercurrent draws them together...

 

(c) 2004 Thessaloniki International Film Festival