Tennyson Ferrada

Tennyson Ferrada

Born: September 5, 1930
Died: April 27, 1999

Movies for Tennyson Ferrada...

Coronation
Title: Coronation
Character: Retired Commander
Released: April 27, 2000
Type: Movie
The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.
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No tan lejos de Andrómeda
Title: No tan lejos de Andrómeda
Released: August 5, 1999
Type: Movie
After a long period ofexile, Félix and Magui return to their country. Magui's fathers take them to one of the houses of the family. Félix resistance to adapt himself to the social reality of the country and the presence of "aliens" on the region start to trouble the chief of the family.
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Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde
Title: Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde
Character: Actuary
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In the seas of southern Chile, where the known world ends, in dangerous waters and ghost ports, a space where everything is possible, a group of sailors dare still to dream in mysteries and enchantments...
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Title: Brigada Escorpión
Character: DC Cortéz
Released: August 10, 1997
Type: TV
The exploits of an investigative police group that from anonymity, solve intricate criminal cases.
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Title: Santiago City
Character: Pepe
Released: July 23, 1997
Type: TV
Gloria is a young woman looking for success in the big city. It's there where she meets Andrés who seeks similar dreams as her. Both will face series of difficulties in the concrete jungle.
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Title: Rossabella
Character: Héctor
Released: March 10, 1997
Type: TV
A young blind man and a dancer unwittingly get tangled in the affairs of an underwear company called Rossabella.
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Hasta en las mejores familias
Title: Hasta en las mejores familias
Released: October 27, 1994
Type: Movie
Dramatic comedy that raise questions through satire about the moral tradition of Chilean society, its dogmatism and sexual intolerance and the repressive nature of the country's traditional family.
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Los náufragos
Title: Los náufragos
Character: Rene
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
After 20 years of exile, Aron returns to Chile to find out who he is. He asks questions, not only of those who stayed behind but also of himself, examining his relationship with his past and his own memory. The people who stayed lived through 20 years of dictatorship. They were either victims or executioners. Amidst this wreckage, Aron wonders what name his brother is using now, where his father is... Can he, in Isol's arms and through her love, find his way again ? What future awaits him? Like Mola the torturer, he has returned from an impossible journey, and Aron knows that each man is his own executioner. Shipwreck and resurrection are the two facets of a complex truth.
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Amelia Lópes O'Neill
Title: Amelia Lópes O'Neill
Character: Merchant Navy Captain
Released: February 5, 1992
Type: Movie
A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
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The Frontier
Title: The Frontier
Character: Don Ignacio (voice)
Released: October 25, 1991
Type: Movie
A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose father asks him to take her away. Although he gets his freedom he doesn't leave and when the water rises, Maite and her father die, and Ramiro flees to the hills.
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Title: Crónica de un hombre santo
Character: Father Alvarado
Released: June 10, 1990
Type: TV
The life, work and death of the Chilean Jesuit priest and founder of "Hogar de Cristo" (Home of Christ), San Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga.
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Consuelo
Title: Consuelo
Released: May 12, 1989
Type: Movie
A Chilean exile leaves his Swedish partner to return to Chile. There he meets his old love, Consuelo.
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Macías, ensayo general sobre el poder y la gloria
Title: Macías, ensayo general sobre el poder y la gloria
Character: Macías
Released: November 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Video that records the play "Macías, general essay on power and glory" by Sergio Marras. Monologue in which an actor face the audience to give life to the role of Macías, a dictator of an imaginary country but who suffers from the “misunderstanding” of his detractors and enemies. A text full of profound observations about the despotic use of power. This video participated in the Fifth Franco-Chilean Video Art Meeting, Santiago de Chile, November 1985. U-matic Project
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Title: El prisionero de la medianoche
Released: October 16, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Los títeres
Character: Anselmo
Released: March 5, 1984
Type: TV
Artemisa returns to Chile in search of the group of people who made her life miserable 20 years ago, as fate has prepared a real puppet show for them.
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Los deseos concebidos
Title: Los deseos concebidos
Released: November 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Erre, a teenager that lives with his uncle, his aunt and an almost absent sister, is erased from the roster on his school. From then on, he just wanders in places where the strange is barely hidden under an imitation of the ordinary.
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Title: Una familia feliz
Character: Lorenzo
Released: October 10, 1982
Type: TV
A man chases success at all costs, by exploiting a false self-image of "winner" and having a "happy family" to promote his businesses.
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Title: Alguien por quien vivir
Character: Max
Released: March 15, 1982
Type: TV
Centers around the sentimental and existential conflicts of three families from different classes.
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Title: La madrastra
Character: Father Belisario
Released: April 13, 1981
Type: TV
Marcia has grown bitter and full of resentment after being framed for murder 20 years ago during a visit to the United States. As soon as she gets out of jail she comes back to Chile to recover what was taken away from her and search the real killer of the incident that costed several years of her life.
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Cuestión de ubicación
Title: Cuestión de ubicación
Released: May 8, 1980
Type: Movie
A family obsessed with their recent acquisition of a huge color television, postpones the health of one of their daughters. While they worry about locating the device in their tiny home, the daughter's condition worsens and the attention of her illness is delayed until the end of the TV payment.
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Julio Begins in July
Title: Julio Begins in July
Character: Uncle Aurelio
Released: April 30, 1979
Type: Movie
This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
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Enough Praying
Title: Enough Praying
Character: Padre Justo
Released: August 28, 1972
Type: Movie
Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of the poor. Such priests, usually adherents of "liberation theology," are called "worker-priests." This Chilean film tells the story of how one man became a "worker-priest" and won the trust of the poor.
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The Witnesses
Title: The Witnesses
Released: June 21, 1971
Type: Movie
This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obtain title to the miniscule plots of land their houses stand on. In fact, he has been swindling them and does not even own the land he has been "selling." One of the aggrieved slum dwellers confronts him about this while he is visiting the slum, and the real estate agent shoots him before everyone's eyes. The question confronting these witnesses is whether testifying against this monster will make their lives even more precarious.
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The House We Live In
Title: The House We Live In
Released: July 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A portrait of a Chilean middle-class family in the 1940s and 1970s.
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Eloy
Title: Eloy
Released: February 13, 1969
Type: Movie
The film is about Eloy, a Chilean bandit and companion of Joaquín Murieta, who is wanted by the justice system on the border with Argentina. Although an escape seems impossible, in desperation he flees without a fixed destination.
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Tierra quemada
Title: Tierra quemada
Released: August 26, 1968
Type: Movie
The story, set at the end of the 19th century, revolves around the rivalry between two families of ancient peasant lineage, the Valladares and the evil Vilches who, out of greed and sentimental revenge, try to dispossess the true owners of their land. The Valladares defend theirs, ending the conflict with a melee between the two main rivals. There are duels, fires, chases, kidnappings, betrayals and deaths. There is also a romantic note, the costumbrista landscape, the laughable moment and the folk songs.
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Angelito
Title: Angelito
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A maid loses all her jobs because her son cries at night, and that bothers her bosses. The play portrays the wandering and desperation of the protagonist to get a job, which ends in her failed attempts due to the "Angelito".