Movie
Abzurdah
Overview
A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.
Details
- Release date
- 2015-06-04
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- HC Films, MyS Producción, Zeppelin Studio
- Country
- Argentina
- Original language
- ES
Cast
- Eugenia Suárez as Cielo
- Esteban Lamothe as Alejo
- Gloria Carrá as Miriam
- Rafael Spregelburd as Eduardo
- Tomás Ottaviano as Federico
- Julieta Gullo as Agostina
- Zoe Hochbaum as Hary
- Lucia Carolina Pecrul as Tamy
Crew
- Daniela Goggi - Director
- Daniela Goggi - Writer
- Alejandro Montiel - Writer
- Alberto Rojas Apel - Writer
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