Movie
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)
Budget
$9.5M
In El Idilio, a village on the banks of a river in the Amazon rainforest, Antonio Bolívar, known to everyone as "The Old Man," lives a recluse. One day, Antonio begins reading the romance novels that the traveling dentist Rubicondo Loachamin brings him to pass the time. He shares this occupation with a beautiful local girl, a waitress and prostitute, named Josefina, with whom he ends up falling in love. But all does not go smoothly when Antonio is forced to go on a hunting trip.
- Production
- SF Studios · France 2 Cinéma · Kino Visión · Fandango · Fildebroc · Vertigo Productions · Magnetic Hall · Odusseia Films
