Illuminated by fire

Movie
German title	Illuminated by fire
Original title	Iluminados por el fuego
Country of production	Argentina
original language	Spanish
Publishing year	2005
length	101 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Tristán Bauer
script	Tristan Bauer Miguel Bonasso Edgardo Esteban Gustavo Romero Borri
production	Ana de Skalon Carlos Ruta
music	León Gieco Federico Bonasso
camera	Javier Julia
cut	Alejandro Brodersohn
occupation
Gastón Pauls : Esteban Leguizamón Pablo Ribba : Alberto Vargas César Albarracín : Juan Chamorro Víctor Hugo Carrizo : Pizarro Virginia Innocenti : Marta / Maria Vargas Juan Leyrado Arturo Bonín Jon Lucas : Doblajes Mario Chaparro Tony Lestingi Carlos Garmendia : Doblaje Lautaro Delgado Miguel Oscar Acuña Marcos Damian alias Gabriel Casal Néstor Cordoba Juan De Lima Mauro Espinoza Gabriel Fernández Guillermo Flores Leonardo Mendietta Claudio Pereyra Ronald Reagan : as Ronald Reagan (archive footage) Julio Roberto Rios Tony Smith René Soto Margaret Thatcher as Margaret Thatcher (archive footage) Damian Valdez Esteban Vera Eduardo Villalba

Lit by Fire is an Argentinian feature film from 2005 based on a novel by Edgardo Esteban . The central topic is the traumatization of Argentine soldiers as a result of the Falklands War . The film received several awards, including the Gran Coral 2005 and the title “Best Foreign Spanish Language Film” in 2006.

action

Esteban Leguizamón receives a call from the partner of his former war comrade Alberto Vargas. Alberto tried to kill himself with a mixture of pills and intoxicants. Esteban drives to the emergency room where the doctors are fighting for his friend's life. There he meets Varga's girlfriend. In the days that followed, she told him about Varga's life after his discharge from military service. At first they had a good time. Then Vargas lost his job, became depressed and also violent, dreamed of war. In flashbacks, Esteban remembers their shared past. You were sent to the Falkland Islands as young soldiers in 1982 . There they were confronted with cold, hunger, boredom and fear. And they were exposed to the arbitrariness of incompetent, sadistic officers. Esteban and Alberto, along with two comrades, had killed a sheep in order to eat it. Alberto was caught with the carcass by a superior and subjected to corporal punishment, as a result of which he fell ill. During an air raid, Esteban refused to order his superior to carry his luggage. Instead, he looked for the sick comrade and carried him to the hospital. Alberto dies in the emergency room. Esteban flies to the Falkland Islands and looks for his former " bunker ", a primitive hole in the ground. Here he leaves the friend's identification tag.

criticism

The film portrays the conflict as a mismanaged, inglorious spasm of the national spirit of the fascist military junta in the year before it was voted out.

Stephen Holden in the New York Times

Web links

• Enlightened by the fire in theInternet Movie Database(English)