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Stories Set in Montevideo
Montevideo is a slow coastal capital across the water from Buenos Aires, all seaside promenades and art-deco sidewalks. Its small film scene punches above its weight with horror surprises and underdog sports dramas. Virus:32 shows one face of it, Montevideo, God Bless You! another. Open Montevideo on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 3 books and 9 movies set in Montevideo.
Virus:32
A virus is unleashed and a chilling massacre runs through the streets of Montevideo.
The Dark Side of the Heart
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo he meets a prostitute Ana with whom he…
Montevideo, God Bless You!
A story about one team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten…
Panic Attack!
Giant robots appear out of the mist and attack the city of Montevideo Uruguay.
La tregua
De las varias y buenas novelas de Mario Benedetti, LA TREGUA es la que ha alcanzado mayor favor del público. La cotidianidad gris y rutinaria marcada por la frustración y la ausencia de perspectivas de la clase media…
Nasha Natasha
International pop star Natalia Oreiro returns to western Europe for a non-stop concert tour through seventeen cities around the former USSR traveling in the Orient Express. In this first person journey Natalia also…
The Lighthouse
Two Argentine sisters Memé and Aneta lose their mother in a car crash. Memé the elder is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned girls go to Uruguay to stay with their aunts. The sisters often bicker but…
Onda su onda
Two under-appreciated artists meet while traveling to Montevideo where one will give a concert. They initially dislike each other but eventually build a relationship as a means of finding a way out of their existential…
La borra del café
In 48 fragments of memory the events that marked Claudio's life are revealed. Through this exercise in memory, Benedetti's pen invites us to reflect on key moments in a the life of a child, an adolescent, and an adult:…
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