My Best Enemy
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My Best Enemy is a 2005 Chile
an/Argentine
/Spanish
dark comedy film
directed by Álex Bowen. It stars Nicolás Saavedra, Erto Pantoja and Felipe Braun and won the Pudú de Plata for the best Chilean movie at the Valdivia International Film Festival
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an patrol lost in Patagonia during the Beagle conflict
of December 1978. The patrol becomes lost and builds a trench in the middle of the Patagonian plains only to discover that there is a Argentine trench in front of them. Likewise the Argentine groups is also lost and unsure of the actual location of the country's border. The story is set during a period in which war was imminent, and portrays these two groups interacting in ways both friendly and conflictive (hence the title of the movie).
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an/Argentine
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
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Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
dark comedy film
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
directed by Álex Bowen. It stars Nicolás Saavedra, Erto Pantoja and Felipe Braun and won the Pudú de Plata for the best Chilean movie at the Valdivia International Film Festival
Valdivia International Film Festival
The Valdivia International Film Festival started as a very successful international film exhibition released in 1993 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Cine Club of the Universidad Austral de Chile. A competition was included the following year, labeled as "Valdivia Cine & Video"...
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Plot
My Best Enemy tells the story of a 5 man ChileChile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an patrol lost in Patagonia during the Beagle conflict
Beagle conflict
The Beagle Conflict was a border dispute between Chile and Argentina over the possession of Picton, Lennox and Nueva islands and the scope of the maritime jurisdiction associated with those islands that brought the countries to the brink of war in 1978....
of December 1978. The patrol becomes lost and builds a trench in the middle of the Patagonian plains only to discover that there is a Argentine trench in front of them. Likewise the Argentine groups is also lost and unsure of the actual location of the country's border. The story is set during a period in which war was imminent, and portrays these two groups interacting in ways both friendly and conflictive (hence the title of the movie).