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Arcibel's Game is a film of genre Drama directed by Alberto Lecchi released in USA on 25 october 2004 with Darío Grandinetti
Arcibel's Game (2003)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 25 october 2004
Length 2h5
Directed by Alberto Lecchi
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films
Rating68%
El juego de Arcibel (English: Arcibel's Game), is a 2003 Argentine film directed by Alberto Lecchi.
The picture features Darío Grandinetti, Diego Torres, and others.
^ El juego de arcibel at the Internet Movie Database
Synopsis
1967 - in Miranda, an imaginary Latin American country, ruled by the dictator General Abalorio, Arcibel Alegría (Darío Grandinetti), a journalist who writes articles about chess is taken to jail as political prisoner due to a mixed-up schedule of the newspaper he works for. Arcibel, a non-political, rather solitary person, separated, and father of a two-year-old girl, will get to know a new reality he's never heard of, from inside the jail.Actors
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