Gatica, el mono

Gatica, el mono is a 1993 Argentine drama film directed by Leonardo Favio. It is a biopic of Argentine boxer José María Gatica.

Gatica, el mono
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Directed by	Leonardo Favio
Written by	Leonardo Favio
Starring	Edgardo Nieva [es]
Cinematography	Alberto Basail [es]
Edited by	Darío Tedesco
Music by	Pérez Prado Iván Wyszogrod
Production company	Choila Producciones Cinematográficas
Distributed by	Transmundo Films[1]
Release date	13 May 1993 (1993-05-13)
Running time	136 minutes
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish
Box office	$1.1 million (Argentina)[2]

It won the Silver Condor for Best Film. It was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, but Leonardo Favio asked the Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía (INC) to remove it as a nominee in order to protest in delays of the Congress' approval of the Foreign Films taxes.^[3][4][5]

In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 24th position.^[6] In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, it reached the 20th position.^[7]

Cast

• Edgardo Nieva [es] as Gatica
• Horacio Taicher [es] as El Ruso
• Juan Costa as Jesús Gatica
• María Eva Gatica as Madre
• Erasmo Olivera as Gatica (teen)
• Kika Child [es] as Ema
• Virginia Innocenti [es] as Nora
• Adolfo Yanelli as El Rosarino

See also

• List of submissions to the 66th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Argentine submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film