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Stories Set in Uruguay
Uruguay is South America's calm corner, a small country of beaches, ranches and easygoing cities. Its 1970s dictatorship was shorter than its neighbors' but left the same hunger for stories about imprisonment and survival. A Twelve-Year Night tells exactly that story. Open Uruguay on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 12 books and 32 movies set in Uruguay.
A Twelve-Year Night
Uruguay 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
Virus:32
A virus is unleashed and a chilling massacre runs through the streets of Montevideo.
Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte
Constituye la obra cumbre del autor, en las breves y apasionantes historias que componen el libro, la intriga, el drama y el misterio se desbordan y nos invaden. Quiroga es aquí consagrado como uno de los mejores…
Togo
Togo just wants to watch his neighbors' homes wash their cars and clean up their sidewalks. But the drug traffickers want more from him.
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…
El Pepe: A Supreme Life
A documentary on the life of Uruguayan politician and former guerrilla fighter José Mujica.
State of Siege
Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.
Whisky
When his long-lost brother resurfaces Jacobo desperate to prove his life has added up to something looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta an employee at his sock factory with whom he has a prickly relationship.
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…
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