Funny Dirty Little War

Director: Héctor Olivera
Genre: Black comedy, Indie, Comedy, War film, World cinema, Drama
Year: 1983
Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Héctor Bidonde, Federico Luppi, Víctor Laplace, Rodolfo Ranni, Miguel Ángel Solá, Julio De Grazia, Lautaro Murúa, Graciela Dufau, Ulises Dumont, Raúl Rizzo, Arturo Maly

Funny Dirty Little War (Spanish: No habrá más penas ni olvido; original title translatable as "There will be no more sorrow or forgetfulness") is a 1983 Argentine comedy drama film directed by Héctor Olivera, written by Olivera and Roberto Cossa, based on a novel of the same name by Osvaldo Soriano. It was produced by Fernando Ayala and Luis O. Repetto, and stars Federico Luppi, Miguel Ángel Solá, Ulises Dumont, Héctor Bidonde and Víctor Laplace. The events of the story take place one day in 1974.

Héctor Suprino is the local Peronist political boss in the small countryside village of Colonia Vela. He plots with the county mayor Guglielmini and union leader Reinaldo to get the deputy mayor Ignacio Fuentes out of power, despite Fuentes being an avid peronist and having once worked under Juan Domingo Perón himself.

Fuentes is told that he has to fire his assistant Mateo because of his Marxist sympathies. Yet, Fuentes, despite disagreeing with Marxist ideals himself, refuses because of his absolute stance against caving in to political pressure. This evokes a harsh response from Suprino, who has the police chief intervene. Fuentes, rather than cave in to pressure, arms himself and then

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