El Abrazo Partido (2004) is an Argentine movie depicting episodes in the life of a Jewish family in the Once neighborhood of Buenos Aires and the other shopkeepers in a low-rent commercial galería (gallery).
The narrator, Ariel Makaroff, is the son of a woman that was deserted by her husband, who went to Israel to fight the Yom Kippur war. The father is in touch with his former wife via the phone and supports their two sons.
Director: Daniel Burman
Cast:
Ariel -- Daniel Hendler
Sonia -- Adriana Aizemberg
Elías -- Jorge D'Elía
External Links
Internet Movie Database entry (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366137/)
Elabrazopartido (English title: Lost Embrace) is a 2004 Argentine film directed by Daniel Burman, written by Burman and Marcelo Birmajer, and starring Daniel Hendler, Adriana Aizemberg and Jorge D'ElÃa.
The name of the film is an intentional pun: abrazo means "embrace" and does not make sense followed by partido "broken" or "gone", but the idiom a brazo partido, literally "with a broken arm", means "(to fight) forcefully, strenuosly".
It could also be understood as "the halved hug," that is, an incompleted hug or made with just one arm.
His loose trilogy of films, Esperando al MesÃas, Elabrazopartido and the upcoming Derecho de familia, were all written and directed by Burman and star Daniel Hendler.
Elabrazopartido took the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival as well as best actor for Hendler.
Burman was co-producer of the successful 2004 film, The Motorcycle Diaries and of the 2000 film Fuckland.
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