China Zorrilla

China Zorrilla

Born: March 14, 1922
Died: September 17, 2014
in Montevideo - Uruguay
China Zorrilla (born Concepción Matilde Zorrilla de San Martín Muñoz; Montevideo, 14 March 1922 –Montevideo, 17 September 2014) was an emblematic Uruguayan theater, film, and television actress, also director, producer and writer. An immensely popular star in the Rioplatense area is often regarded as a Grand Dame of the South American theater stage. After a long career in the Uruguayan theater, Zorrilla made over 50 appearances in Argentina's film, theater and TV. Her distinguished career took off in Uruguay in the 50-60s, later she settled in Argentina where she lived for over 35 years and was popular on TV, theater, and cinema. At 90, she retired and went back to Uruguay where she died in 2014. In 2008, Zorrilla was invested Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and in 2011, the Correo Uruguayo (the national postal service in Uruguay) released a print run of 500 commemorative postage stamps dedicated to her.

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Mercedes
Title: Mercedes
Character: Mercedes
Released: May 25, 2010
Type: Movie
Mercedes is a woman who has 212 years. She is also an unusual biological phenomenon in the human race, the only living witness of the entire history of Argentina.
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Blood Pacific
Title: Blood Pacific
Character: Carmen
Released: November 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Jorge is an old artist, actor and director, who says he wants to direct a film about the Latin American wars of independence. Charito is a young woman who comes from the Peruvian jungle to work as a maid in Buenos Aires. The unconscious of the protagonists bursts in the form of dreams, visions and fantasies amid horses, fencing sessions, fragments of lost films and anthropological videos.
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Title: Vidas robadas
Character: Nun
Released: March 3, 2008
Type: TV
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Touch the Sky
Title: Touch the Sky
Character: Imperio
Released: August 2, 2007
Type: Movie
A family divided between two continents put their differences aside when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
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Tres de corazones
Title: Tres de corazones
Released: April 26, 2007
Type: Movie
Angel decides to return to his hometown. In an inn on the route meets Dora, and they engage in conversation, but their relationship did not end there. Once installed in the same city, Angel gets a job as a taxi driver will take you to reconnect with Dora. The attraction they both feel continues, even though Angel discovers that Dora is the wife of his boss, a former police officer made ​​in the street, given to sudden outbursts of violence. .
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Elsa & Fred
Title: Elsa & Fred
Character: Elsa
Released: July 28, 2005
Type: Movie
When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.
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Title: Killer Women
Released: July 19, 2005
Type: TV
Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
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Conversations with Mother
Title: Conversations with Mother
Character: Mamá
Released: April 15, 2004
Type: Movie
Jaime has lost his job and has to provide for his wife, son and daughter. Pressured by this circumstances, he visits his mom, who lives in an apartment he owns, to ask her to move with him so he can sell the apartment. But she is not going to cooperate. And, to Jaime's surprise, she also has a boyfriend!
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Title: Los Roldán
Character: Mercedes Lozada
Released: February 2, 2004
Type: TV
Los Roldán is a Spanish language telenovela produced by Argentina's Telefe from 2004 to 2005. The drama, which is also described by many as a comedy, actually ended up winning an award in 2004 as Argentina's Comedy of the Year. RCN Colombian network recently bought the soap opera, making a Colombian version called Los Reyes, while the Mexican version of Los Roldán is Los Sánchez, produced by TV Azteca. In 2008, ANT1 Cyprus, produced the series in a Cypriot version called Η ζωή είναι ωραία. In 2012, Mega Channel, produced the series in a Greek version called Οι Βασιλιάδες.
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Title: Gasoleros
Character: Matilde Arévalo de Presutti
Released: January 5, 1998
Type: TV
The plot is based on the daily life of the Panigasi family, an impoverished middle-class family.
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Title: R.R.D.T.
Character: Cristina
Released: August 7, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Ricos y Famosos
Character: Catalina
Released: January 6, 1997
Type: TV
Ricos y Famosos is an Argentine telenovela.
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Besos en la frente
Title: Besos en la frente
Character: Mercedes
Released: September 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Mercedes, a lady of eighty, widow and with fear of loneliness falls in love Sebastian, a writer sixty years less than her. Mercedes will feel trapped in that body wrinkled and slow that it allows she to live that love as it should be lived.
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Lola Mora
Title: Lola Mora
Character: Reina de Italia
Released: January 11, 1996
Type: Movie
The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.
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Ship of Fools
Title: Ship of Fools
Character: Dra. Marta Caminos
Released: April 13, 1995
Type: Movie
In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts to defend himself. Locked up, he waits for the arrival of "Caleuche," the Ship (Nave) of Fools (de los locos), a mythical figure of his ancestral strength which "made" him start the fire. An appointed lawyer (a white woman) comes to the chief's defence, alleging the chief had acted in self-defense as the white man was building commercial structures on the sacred burial grounds of his ancestors, and continued doing so even after heated protests.
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Cuatro caras para Victoria
Title: Cuatro caras para Victoria
Character: Victoria IV
Released: October 27, 1992
Type: Movie
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God Raises Them
Title: God Raises Them
Released: June 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Angel lives with his mother and has homosexual inclinations. One day he meets Mirna, a prostitute who has a son. The three try to form a strange family.
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Summer of the Colt
Title: Summer of the Colt
Character: Ana
Released: January 31, 1991
Type: Movie
This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, breaks and train his first horse; their 13-year-old sister, Laura, struggles with the transition between childhood and growing up. The kids find it difficult to adapt to their proud and stubborn grandfather, and he learns that he has to change his ways and try to understand them as they all experience the joys and sorrows of growing up and growing old. ~ Alice Duncan, Rovi
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Warriors and Prisoners
Title: Warriors and Prisoners
Character: Sergeant
Released: September 5, 1990
Type: Movie
Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.
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Title: Atreverse
Character: Amanda
Released: April 19, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Atreverse
Character: Edelmira Santucho Barrionuevo
Released: April 19, 1990
Type: TV
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Nunca estuve en Viena
Title: Nunca estuve en Viena
Released: April 13, 1989
Type: Movie
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Poor Butterfly
Title: Poor Butterfly
Released: June 2, 1986
Type: Movie
A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.
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Waiting for the Hearse
Title: Waiting for the Hearse
Character: Elvira
Released: May 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?
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Contar hasta diez
Title: Contar hasta diez
Released: May 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Argentina's turbulent political history is an uncredited but clearly present protagonist in this rather slow-paced story about Ramon (Oscar Martinez) and his search for his brother Pedro in the capital city of Buenos Aires. Pedro has disappeared at a time of upheaval, after a military junta takes over Argentina in 1976, killing thousands of leftists and dissidents. Unlike many others, Ramon's father has political ties that matter, but that may not change Pedro's fate, which could be death -- or like some who have been tortured, worse than death. This film was nominated for a Golden Bear award at the 1985 Berlin Film Festival.
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Darse cuenta
Title: Darse cuenta
Character: Ágada
Released: August 30, 1984
Type: Movie
The relationship between a doctor and a depressed young patient in a public hospital.
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La Invitación
Title: La Invitación
Character: Dolores Ortega de Zubarán
Released: September 30, 1982
Type: Movie
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Pubis Angelical
Title: Pubis Angelical
Released: August 12, 1982
Type: Movie
It's about three women, three stories, or perhaps a single story in different projections of time and space. The Mistress wishes to unravel the meaning of being a woman is the victim of Hollywood. Ana is the product of a society ruled or dominated by men.
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Last Days of the Victim
Title: Last Days of the Victim
Character: Beba (Landlady)
Released: April 8, 1982
Type: Movie
Mendizábal, a hit man, its ordered by his anonymous clients to murder a man. But in the precise and obsessive persecution, he will discover that he is only part of a game that doesn't belong to him, a web at the service of greater interests.
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Nobody's Wife
Title: Nobody's Wife
Released: April 1, 1982
Type: Movie
It is the story of Eleanor, a good housewife who lives with her husband, Fernando, and their two children. Deeply loves her husband and does not question the reciprocity of love and fidelity. One day, circumstantially, discovers her husband is cheating. Leonor emotionally feels betrayed and realizes that his world, based on a lie, has collapsed like a house of cards. With more fear than conviction, leaving the house, leaving little signs with instructions for their march and trust their children to the care of her husband.
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Las sorpresas
Title: Las sorpresas
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: Movie
"The Surprises" is an episode film. In the episode Five Years of Life an unknown man and woman spend a night locked in a subway station. In Corazonada, a domestic employee takes revenge on her employer by making her son fall in love and in The Wells there is a love triangle in which the deceived husband is blind.
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Jewish Gauchos
Title: Jewish Gauchos
Released: May 22, 1975
Type: Movie
The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.
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Title: Piel naranja
Character: Elena
Released: May 5, 1975
Type: TV
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Triangle of Four
Title: Triangle of Four
Released: April 10, 1975
Type: Movie
In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman.
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The Truce
Title: The Truce
Released: August 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
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Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
Title: Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
Character: Maestra de primaria
Released: August 23, 1973
Type: Movie
When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life.
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Title: Pobre diabla
Character: Aída Morelli
Released: March 28, 1973
Type: TV
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Heroína
Title: Heroína
Released: June 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.
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The Mafia
Title: The Mafia
Character: Assunta Donato
Released: March 29, 1972
Type: Movie
All the business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization is a success, they have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro Fascist mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.
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Un guapo del 900
Title: Un guapo del 900
Released: September 30, 1971
Type: Movie
The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
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Title: Alta comedia
Character: Rosa
Released: April 19, 1970
Type: TV
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Title: Alta comedia
Released: April 19, 1970
Type: TV