Merry Christmas (2000 film)

Felicidades (English: congratulations - international title: Merry Christmas) is a 2000 Argentine-Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Lucho Bender [ca; es] and starring Gastón Pauls, Pablo Cedrón, Silke, Luis Machín, Carlos Belloso and Alfredo Casero. It was premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on September 5 and in Argentina on September 7, 2000.

Felicidades
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Directed by	Lucho Bender [ca; es]
Written by	Lucho Bender Pablo Cedrón
Produced by	Emilio Bender Juan Bucich Cecilia Hecht Gabriela Tagliabue
Starring	Gastón Pauls Luis Machín Silke Carlos Belloso Alfredo Casero Pablo Cedrón
Cinematography	Daniel Sotelo
Edited by	Emilio Bender Silvina Soto
Music by	Andrés Goldstein [de] Daniel Tarrab
Distributed by	Bendercine S.A.
Release dates	5 September 2000 (2000-09-05) (Italy) 7 September 2000 (2000-09-07)
Running time	100 minutes
Countries	Argentina Italy
Languages	Spanish Hebrew

The picture was Argentina's official submission for the 73rd Academy Awards and won two Silver Condor Awards whilst being nominated for nine different categories. Lucho Bender won Best First Film.

Cast

• Luis Machín as Juan
• Gastón Pauls as Julio
• Silke as Laura
• Pablo Cedrón as Rodolfo
• Carlos Belloso as Comedian
• Alfredo Casero as Fredi
• Marcelo Mazzarello [es] as Paralytic
• Cacho Castaña as Cueto
• Fabián Arenillas [es] as Aguilera
• Eduardo Ayala as Starosta
• Federico Cammarota as Old man
• Fatty Iastrebner as Emilio
• Mariana Arias [es] as Party Woman
• Henry Meziat as Party man
• Mariano Fraomeni as Fredi's neighbour
• Mariana Otero as Salesgirl
• Catalina Speroni as Street neighbour
• Anahí Martella as Street neighbour
• Jorge Román as Nursery man
• Luciano Cazaux as Doctor

See also

• List of Christmas films

External links

• Merry Christmas at IMDb