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Winner of the Best Spanish Language Foreign Film Prize during the 2006 Goya Awards the Aregentinean production (nominated for 11 Silver Condor Awards granted by the Argentinean Film Critics Association) Iluminados por el Fuego is set to be released in Spain on July 26 (optional French and English subtitles).

"Iluminados por el Fuego a.k.a Enlightened by Fire retells the memories of a 40-year-old man, Esteban Leguizamon, who was sent to fight on the Malvinas Islands in 1982 at the age of 18. A friend’s attempted suicide triggers off the memories of the war times he shared with two young privates: Vargas( his suicide) and Juan (who was killed on the battlefield).
Thus, the horrors of war itself, together with the ailments of hunger and cold weather are interwoven with stories about friendship and fellowship.
From Esteban’s point of view, the movie shows the slow and gradual immersion of their fragile lives into the heart of death itself.
Twenty years after the war, Esteban decides to return to the islands to come to terms with his past and heal old wounds."



Official site:
http://www.iluminadosporelfuego.com/apertura_flash.php



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