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Death of a Comedian

  • Diego Peretti, Javier Beltramino
  • Section: Latin American Feature Film Competition
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Duration: 108 min.
  • Country: Argentina, Bélgica
  • Language: Español - Castellano
  • Year: 2025

Synopsis

Juan Debré has spent a lifetime playing a hero in a popular TV series. When he is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he withdraws from his everyday life. Aware of having wasted his life, he escapes from a film shoot to travel to Brussels. In the land of his childhood hero, Tintin, he seeks to answer a question that has haunted him all his life: ?Could I be a real-life hero??

Diego Peretti, Javier Beltramino

Diego Peretti, Javier Beltramino

Diego Peretti has achieved great recognition as an actor: Tiempo de valientes (2005), Wakolda (2013), El robo del siglo (2020), and Los simuladores (2002). The Death of a Comedian is his debut as director.
Javier Beltramino is known for his short films Rice and Matches (2015) and Lone Wolf (2021).

Credits

D: Diego Peretti, Javier Beltramino

G: Diego Peretti

F: Gustavo Biazzi

E: Anabela Lattanzio

DA: Seba Orgambide

S: Mercedes Tennina

M: Lolo Micucci

P: Vanesa Pagani, Marchelo Scoccia, Joaquín Marqués Borchex, Walter Gammarota, Chiri Basilis, Hernán Casciari, Mariano Avellaneda y 10.190 socios

CP: Orsai Audiovisuales

I: Diego Peretti, Malena Villa, -

IG: -