Tetro
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Genre: Mystery, Indie, Family Drama, Drama
Year: 2009
Country: United States of America, Argentina, Spain, Italy
Language: English Language, Spanish Language, Italian Language
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdú, Rodrigo de la Serna, Leticia Brédice, Carmen Maura, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Érica Rivas, Susana Giménez, Francesca de Sapio, Mike Amigorena, Alden Ehrenreich, Silvia Pérez, Adriana Mastrángelo, Lucas Di Conza
Tetro is a 2009 drama film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich and Maribel Verdú. Filming took place in 2008 in Buenos Aires, Patagonia, and Spain. Tetro was limitedly released in the United States on June 11, 2009.
With a high content of film noir and set in Argentina, with the reunion of two brothers, the story follows the rivalries born out of creative differences passed down through generations of an artistic Italian immigrant family.
Also cast in the film are Rodrigo de la Serna, Leticia Brédice, Mike Amigorena and Jean-Francois Casanovas.
In February 2007, director Francis Ford Coppola announced that he would produce and direct the film Tetro, based on a script that he had written while editing Youth Without Youth. Production was scheduled to begin in Buenos Aires, Argentina in late 2007. Coppola was attracted to Argentina as a location, "I knew Argentina has a great cultural, artistic, literary, musical, cinema tradition, and I like those kinds of atmospheres very much because you usually find creative people to work with." Production did not begin as scheduled, and by March 2008, Vincent Gallo and Maribel Verdú joined
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