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A Translator

Un traductor

2018

Rodrigo Barriuso, Sebastián Barriuso

Rodrigo Santoro, Maricel Álvarez, Milda Gecaite, Nataliya Rodina ...

6.4

63

Drama In the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Malin, a Russian literature professor at the University of Havana, is separated from his family and job when he is assigned to work as a translator between Cuban doctors and children arriving from the USSR to receive medical treatment for radiation poisoning. Torn from the abstract world of academia and forced into the relentlessly real world of medicine, Malin must find ways to cope in ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Dennis Harvey Variety	"Maudlin and contrived (...) the background of drastic political change is portrayed without any particular insight."
		Sarah Ward Screendaily	"A tenderly told drama; one that wears its heart on its sleeves, and rarely veers from the expected, but resonates with genuine emotion"
		Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"A fascinating slice of recent history, filtered through an uneven but affecting melodrama"
		Elazar Fine The Playlist	"An underwhelming drama (...) While the intentions behind “Un Taductor” were admirable, there’s just not much to recommend here"

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