Bombón: El Perro

  • February 17, 2017 / 20:00
  • February 18, 2017 / 14:00

Director: Carlos Sorin
Cast: Juan Villegas, Walter Donado
Argentina, Spain, 2004, 97’, color
Spanish with Turkish subtitles

52-year-old Juan “Coco” Villegas, suddenly loses his job at a gas station, where he had been working for more than two decades. He does not give up and seeks different jobs in the villages of Patagonia and tries to hold on. One day, after a repair job, he gets paid in the strangest way; with a dog! Argentine director Carlos Sorin’s Bombón: El perro tells the story of an extraordinary dog who changes an ordinary man’s life.

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