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El Túnel

El Túnel

★ 9.0/10•2024•15m•Comedy•Action•Drama

"Now I am become the Tunnel, the destroyer of my own light".

Short film inspired by the book "El Túnel" from Ernesto Sabato, which tells the story about Juan Pablo Castel, a reclusive and introspective painter who becomes obsessed with a woman named María Iribarne. Castel's fixation leads him to a tumultuous relationship with María, marked by jealousy, possessiveness, and paranoia, starting to break not only his life, but also his mental state.

Baltazar Toro · Director

Juan Sebastián Ayala · Director

Baltazar Toro · Writer

Juan Sebastián Ayala · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime15m
LanguageES
Release DateJan 24, 2024

Actors

Jose Miguel Peña

Jose Miguel Peña

Juan Pablo Castel

Samuel Alejandro González

María Iribarne

Baltazar Toro

Baltazar Toro

Interviewer / Albert Einstein

Eliseo Arias

Hunter

Juan Sebastián Ayala

Allende

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