A Place in the World (film)

A Place in the World
Theatrical Poster
SpanishUn lugar en el mundo
Directed byAdolfo Aristarain
Written byAdolfo Aristarain
Alberto Lecchi
Kathy Saavedra
Produced byAdolfo Aristarain
Osvaldo Papaleo
StarringFederico Luppi
Cecilia Roth
José Sacristán
CinematographyRicardo DeAngelis
Edited byEduardo López
Music byEmilio Kauderer
Distributed byTransmundo Films
Release dates
  • 9 April 1992 (1992-04-09) (Argentina)
  • 30 October 1992 (1992-10-30) (Spain)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

A Place in the World (Spanish: Un lugar en el mundo) is a 1992 Argentine drama film co-written, co-produced and directed by Adolfo Aristarain, and starring Federico Luppi. It stars José Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Leonor Benedetto and Cecilia Roth.[1]

The movie won numerous awards and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film; however, it was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot because it had been submitted by Uruguay, which had exercised insufficient artistic control over the film. It is the only film so far to have been disqualified from this category after it secured a nomination.

In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 14th position.[2] In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 34th position.[3]

  1. ^ A Place in the World at IMDb.
  2. ^ "Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino". La mirada cautiva (3). Buenos Aires: Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken: 6–14. 2000. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022 – via Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 on Google Drive.
  3. ^ "Top 100" (in Spanish). Encuesta de cine argentino 2022. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.