The Dancer Upstairs (film)

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The Dancer Upstairs (film)

The Dancer Upstairs is a 2002

2002 in film

The year '2002 in film' involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Litt...
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Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
starring Javier Bardem

Javier Bardem

Javier ?ngel Encinas Bardem is an Academy Award-winning Spain actor who has starred in over two dozen films in Spain. He had garnered critical acclaim as an actor for films such as Jam?n, jam?n, Carne tremula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro....
, and the directorial debut of John Malkovich

John Malkovich

'John Gavin Malkovich' is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor, film producer and film director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask , Rounders , Changelin...
. The film is an adaptation of the book of the same name

The Dancer Upstairs

The Dancer Upstairs is a 1995 novel by Nicholas Shakespeare. It is based on the Maoist insurgency of the 1980s in Peru, and tells the story of Agustin Rejas a police Lieutenant , hunting a terrorist based on Abimael Guzm?n, leader of the Shining Path....
by Nicholas Shakespeare

Nicholas Shakespeare

Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare is a British journalist and writer. Born to a diplomat, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America....
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ctive Agustín Rejas (Bardem) is tracking the self-styled President Ezequiel (Abel Folk), a Marxist-influenced guerrilla waging a brutal terrorist campaign against the corrupt -yet democratic - government of an unnamed Latin American country.

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The Dancer Upstairs is a 2002

2002 in film

Film

Javier Bardem

John Malkovich

The Dancer Upstairs

Nicholas Shakespeare

Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare is a British journalist and writer. Born to a diplomat, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America....
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Plot

Detective Agustín Rejas (Bardem) is tracking the self-styled President Ezequiel (Abel Folk), a Marxist-influenced guerrilla waging a brutal terrorist campaign against the corrupt -yet democratic - government of an unnamed Latin American country. Contrasting with the violence and death in his professional life, Rejas begins to fall for Yolanda (Laura Morante

Laura Morante

Laura Morante is an Italian film actress.She was born in Santa Fiora, province of Grosseto , and is the niece of renowned Italian novelist Elsa Morante....
) - his daughter's beautiful ballet

Ballet

Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
teacher. But she may not be all she appears, and his growing attraction to her brings him in direct conflict with his prey.

Historical Basis

The story is inspired by the Maoist insurgency in Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
known as the Shining Path

Shining Path

The Communist Party of Peru , more commonly known as the Shining Path , is a Maoism Guerrilla warfare organization in Peru. When it first launched the internal conflict in Peru in 1980, its stated goal was to replace what it saw as Bourgeoisie democracy with "New Democracy ." The Shining Path believed that by imposing a dictatorship of...
. Its leader Abimael Guzmán

Abimael Guzmán

Manuel Rub?n Abimael Guzm?n Reynoso , also known by the nom de guerre Presidente Gonzalo , a former professor of philosophy, was the leader of the Shining Path during the Maoism insurgency known as the internal conflict in Peru....
, who was known by the nom de guerre President Gonzalo, was captured in an apartment above a ballet studio in the capital Lima

Lima

Lima is the Capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chill?n River, R?mac River and Lur?n River rivers, on a coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean....
in 1992. The ballet

Ballet

Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
teacher Yolanda was based on Maritza Garrido Lecca, the woman in whose apartment Guzmán was found. Bardem's character was inspired by Benedicto Jimenez and General Antonio Ketin Vidal, the leading figures responsible for Guzmán's capture.

The Dancer Upstairs (film)

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