Santiago, 1973. Mario Cornejo (Alfredo Castro) works at a morgue, typing out reports on autopsies performed by the coroners. On the days leading up to the military coup resulting in Salvador Allende's death, he gets involved in a love affair with Nancy (Antonia Zegers), a dancer from the cabaret Bim Bam Bum.
This story of an apparently insignificant and charmless couple is Chile's story during the infamous military coup. Larrain uses Mario's ideal of conquering the impossible love of a woman as the ideal of a nation trying to conquer a noble but unattainable political model (Socialism). All this amid the bodies of those who died as a result of military ideals imposed with no care for their cost or consequences. Mario's character is played to devastating effect by Castro in another fine performance from one of Latin America's most underrated actors.
Release Date: 8 July, 2011
Post Mortem
In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
Director: Pablo Larraín
Writer: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers and Amparo Noguera
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