Latin American & Iberian Collections:

Videos from Uruguay

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1. 100 años de cine en Uruguay, Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
   Abstract: Using material from Cinemateca Uruguaya's Archivo de la Imagen and elsewhere, the film traces the development of Uruguayan cinema from the 1890s to the 1990s.

2. Abierto de 18 a 24, Eduardo F Chapa et al., 1 videocassette (82 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 1987.
   Notes: Performer Note: Gerardo Romano, Silvia Peyrou, Horacio Peña, Jorge Luz.
   Abstract: A lonely and melancholy man has come from the interior to the city in order to verify the death of his cousin.His search leads him to a dance hall where he becomes involved with a variety of people including an uninhibited and diverting girl, Dorys, who is an excellent tango dancer. He also cannot help looking with interest at Carla, who was the object of his cousin's desire and who is now attracted to him.

3. Actualización política y doctrinaria para la toma del poder, Fernando E Solanas et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 100 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
   Abstract: Documentaries about Perón and his effects on Argentina in the present and for the future.

4. Adiós Pepe, Adolfo Aristarain, Eusebio Poncela, and Network (Firm), 1 videocassette, Uruguay, 1919.
   Notes: Performer Note: Eusebio Poncela.

5. Adíos, Roberto, Enrique Dawi et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
   Notes: Performer Note: Victor Laplace, Carlos Andrés Calvo, Ana María Picchio.
   Abstract: Roberto leaves his wife and cannot afford to rent an apartment, so he goes to live with Marcelo, a friend of his cousin's, who openly lives with his homosexuality. They soon develop alove relationship which causes a lot of conflicts for Roberto.

6. Africa rie, Carlos Rinaldi et al., 1 videocassette (60 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
   Notes: Performer Note: Rafael "El Pato" Carret, Jorge Luz, Guillermo Rico.
   Abstract: Four men are known for their foolish actions and one night after ruining a dinner, they get arrested. They are soon released and then go visit their uncle who is sick but he is actually just sick of the four of them. Thus, the four men decide to go to Africa to try to find a cure for their uncle but instead get caught up in the middle of a big scheme.

7. Al corazón, Mario Sábato et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 98 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
   Notes: Performer Note: Presentors, Ernesto Sábato, Enrique Cadícamo, Sergio Renán, Adriana Varela.
   Abstract: A "family album" of singers in an homage to tango and Argentinean films. Mario Sábato gathers together together film clips of the greats: Carlos Gardel, Hugo del Carrill, Libertad Lamarque, Alberto Castillo, Luis Sandrini, Simone, Charlo, Azucena Maizena, Angel Vargas, and Sabina Olmos. They illustrate its thematic message that the tango is the most important musical expression of the nation.

8. Al diablo con esta cura...!!!, Carlos Rinaldi et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
   Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Ubaldo Martínez, Elizabeth Killian.

9. Angeles, Raúl Perrone et al., 1 videocassette (39 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
   Notes: Performer Note: Raúl Perrone, Carlos Brioletti, Horacio Graniero.

10. Aquel de cine argentino 30 años sonoros, 1933-1963, Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette (115 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Narrator: Enrique Conlazo.
    Abstract: A survey of the history of sound film in Argentina between 1933 and 1963, with clips from many important films.

11. Asesinato a distancia, Santiago Carlos Oves et al., 1 videocassette (103 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Hector Alterio, Patricio Contreras, Laura Novoa, Martín Adjemian, Fabián Vena, Carlos Weber, Miguel Dedovich, Guillermo Hermida, Gerardo Pheyrano, Horacio Marassi, Elvia Andreoli.
    Abstract: Can there be a perfect crime? Detective Daniel Hernández says no, his new case causes him to doubt deeply held beliefs. A boy throws himself into the sea during a storm, in front of a crowd of witnesses. An obvious suicide, but Hernández says no, although it will be difficult to deny what the witnesses saw.

12. Así es la vida, Francisco Mugica et al., 1 videocassette (92 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Serrano, Sabina Olmos, Arturo García Bhur.
    Abstract: A wealthy family of six with three daughters and a son grow together learning from and experiencing all the lessons of life. With firm and loving parents all four children find love and although not all marry right away, they are happy. Even when on parent dies, the household carries on as strong as ever. This is a story of family strength and close personal relationships.

13. Atracción peculiar, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel, Silvia Pérez.
    Abstract: A series of aggressive acts against transvestites who act in Mar del Plata leads a magazine to send out a journalist, Sr. Trolombati, and a photographer, Sr. Amatista, who is evidently gay. Both must pretend they are gay and get into the underword to carry on their inquest. This is the starting point for a series of intricate situations in which even the wives of the magazine executives are involved.

14. Atrax, Diego Lascano et al., 1 videocassette (? min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Dario Moscaetlli, Debora Perez Volpin, Hernan Pererz Aguirre, Javier Lareo
    Added Titles: Ultimios vermicellis ; Martini en las dunas.
    Abstract: It is the year 2062 on Atrax. The station managers of a TV channel which dominates the minds of all the inhabitants of this country discover by accident the instruments of power in which they are being held. Eating, making love, working and thinking have been converted into mechanical acts simply destined to keep the species alive. Is rebellion possible against this order? The country is a veiled portrayal of Argentina. Preceded by a very short film which makes satiric use of the theme of alternate reality: Un martini en las dunas.

15. Bajo otro sol, Francisco D'Intino et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Uruguay, 198-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Jorge González, Virginia Lago, Miguel Angel Solá.
    Abstract: After having worked for ten years as a teacher at a rural school in the Argentinian Patagonia, labour lawyer Manuel Ojeda returns to Córdoba, his province. He is moved by the wish to avenge a former political Fellow at the Peronist Youth, missing during the Military Dictatorship after Alfredo Barrantes denounced him. Barrantes is Personnel Manager at the factory where Ojeda used to work. Manuel meets old friends and workmates who make him see the mistake he is about to make.

16. Barroco, Paul Leduc et al., 1 videocassette (107 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Francisco Rabal, Angela Molinna, Ernesto Gómez Cruz.
    Abstract: A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?' (De donde son los cantantes? in Spanish: the title of a popular Cuban song).

17. La bestia humana, Daniel Tinayre et al., 1 videocassette 110 min.), Montevideo, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Ana María Lynch, Massimo Girotti, Eduardo Cuitiño.
    Abstract: Pedro is a train conductor who leads a rather normal life except for the fact that he is afraid of women, or rather they make him turn crazy. After the death of a rich gentleman, Pedro falls in love with Laura, the lover of the gentleman and together the two of them plot to kill her husband. Meanwhile, money and love letters are hidden in an effort to avoid police detection. Unfortunately, there is much more death before anything can be solved by the police. Even when cautioned, Pedro takes matters into his own hands.

18. Billetes, billetes, Martín Schor et al., 1 videocassette, Uruguay, 198-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Julio de Grazia, Ulises Dumont, Haydée Padilla.

19. Blauaugig, Reinhard Hauff et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 1992?
    Notes: Performer Note: Julio de Grazia, Emilia Mazer, Alberto Segado.
    Abstract: Film about an Argentinian based German businessman who is a respected figure in the Argentine business community and who knows how to move in political circles. His daughter rebels against his conservativism and leaves home. Eventually she is murdered but not before giving birth to a son. The business man makes it his mission to find his grandson who he knows has blue eyes just like his.

20. Caballos salvajes, Marcelo Piäneyro et al., 1 videocassette (125 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Héctor Alterio, Leonardo Sbaraglio, Cecilia Dopazo.
    Abstract: Two men: Jose, 70 years old, and Pedro, who is 23, who connect at the precise moment at which the former intends to end his life and the latter intends to begin it. Jose robs the bank where Pedro works and takes him hostage, but Pedro takes charge and he drives both of them out to the countryside. So begins their adventure.

21. Cabra marcado para morir Hombre marcado par morir, Eduardo Coutinho et al., 1 videocassette (XX min.), Uruguay, 1993.
    Notes: Contents: Brasil: el Nordeste (35 min.) -- Cabra marcado para morir (114 min.)
    Added Titles: Brasil: el Nordeste ; Cangaceiro ; Vidas secas ; Deus e o diabo na terra do sol ; Pais de Sao Sarué.
    Abstract: Twenty years after the Brazilian military coup interrupted work on the film biography of the peasant leader, João Pedro Teixeira (assassinated on the orders of a landowner in 1962), director Eduardo Coutinho managed to complete his work, however with a totally different significance. Returning to the Northeast with what he could rescue from his original work, he begins by assembling the peasants who participated in his original project (or at least those who survived), showing them images of the past, and recording the declarations reactions and testimonies of a sector of society reduced to silence by 20 years of dictatorship. Preceded by Las 100 películas (referenced by "El nordeste en el cine Brasileño" on container), which consists of segments of O Cangeceiro (Brazil, 1953; director: Lima Barreto), Vidas secas (Brasil, 1963; director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos); Deus e o diabo na terra do sol (Brazil, 1964; director: Glauber Rocha); and O pais de Sao Sarué (Brazil, 1971; director: Vladimir Carvalho).

22. La caja de Pandora, Imagenes (Firm) and Garabato (Firm), 1 videocassette (40 min.).
    Abstract: Through interviews with children and educators, explores how cultural values are absorbed by children.

23. La calle sin sol, Rafael Gil et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Amparo Rivelles, Antonio Vilar, Manola Morán.

24. Cándida millonaria, Luis Bayón Herrera et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Niní Marshall, Alberto Bello, Alejandro Maximino.

25. Carlos cine-retrato de un caminante en Montevideo, Mario Handler and Universidad de la República (Uruguay), 1 videocassette (31 min.), Uruguay, 1965.

26. La casa de los millones, Luis Bayón Herrera et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Olinda Bozán, Héctor Quintanilla.

27. Casamiento en Buenos Aires, Niní Marshall et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1995?
    Notes: Performer Note: Niní Marshall, Enrique Serrano, Sabina Olmos.
    Abstract: A series of complicated misunderstandings occur when a man, the evening before he is to be married, takes an American singer to dinner and dancing.

28. Che!, Richard Fleischer et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 96 min.), United States, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1998.
    Notes: Performer Note: Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Cesare Danova.
    Abstract: Comic book treatment of the life of Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

29. Che que loco, Ramón Torrado et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: José Iglesias, Emma Penella, Fernando Fernández de Córdoba.

30. Cinco rostros de mujer, Gilberto Martínez Solares et al., 1 videocassette (72 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Miroslava, Arturo de Córdova, Pepita Serrador.

31. Cita en las estrellas, Carlos Schlieper et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: María Duval, Juan Carlos Thorry, Alberto de Mendoza.

32. Comedia rota, Oscar Barney Finn et al., 1 videocassette (110 min.), Uruguay, Argentina, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Julia von Grolman, Ignacio Quirós, Gianni Lunadei, Elsa Daniel, Arturo García Buhr, Thelma Stefani, Elena Tasisto, Nelly Prono, Darwin Sánchez, Ricardo Fasán, Jimeno del San Cuilco, Luis Cordara.
    Abstract: A writer helps a divorced woman escape her usual routine and isolated world.

33. Compañero de clase, Juan C Rodríguez Castro et al., 1 videocassette (47 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Julio Calcagno, Bimbo Depauli, Enrique Martínez Pazos.
    Abstract: This short film is about a group of affluent men invite a blue collar worker named Raul to play poker with them. They try to win his paycheck but end up losing their own money, houses, and titles. In retaliation, they accuse him of stealing their money and end up killing him.

34. Corazón de papel, Roberto Bodegas et al., 1 videocassette (106 min.), Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Antonio Ferrandis, Patxi Andión, Ana Obregón, Héctor Alterio.
    Abstract: Borja, a journalist of the old school, funs a news agency, Agepress, which is under threat of being closed down because it hasn't been successful enough. He works with three others, Tomás, Nico and Julia. One ordinary day, Tomás is witness to a robbery and photographs everything, not knowing that his actions will endanger his life and that of Agepress.

35. Cristina, Francisco Mugica et al., 1 videocassette (70 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Zully Moreno, Esteban Serrador, Alberto Closas.
    Abstract: Cristina is about to marry and settle down when her mother dies and she realizes that she doesn't really know who she is. She moves to Buenos Aires where she quickly finds a job and after not too long, falls in love as well. Unfortunately, the man that she falls for is not very honest and even after giving him a second chance, Cristina soon realizes she has made a mistake.

36. Cuando besa mi marido, Carlos Schlieper et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Malisa Zini, Angel Magaña, Juan Carlos Thorry.

37. Dablito de barrio, Antonio Cunill et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Juan Carlos Calabro, Lorena Paola, Dalma Millavos.
    Abstract: Rita lives in a small town with her uncle. She is a very personable girl and can get along with most anybody. One day while out selling pens with her friend they find a wallet that belongs to a rich gentleman. Rita decides to return it and soon finds herself a part of a new family bringing love and happiness to everyone.

38. Danza del fuego, Daniel Tinayre and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.

39. De hombre a hombre, Hugo Fregonese et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Erique Muiño, Tito Alonso, Norma Giméniz.

40. De mi barrio con amor, José Santiso et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 105 min.), Colonia, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Luis Brandoni, Alicia Bruzzo, Roberto Carnaghi, Fabian Vena, Ana María Giunta.
    Abstract: Margarita is a somewhat plump widow who publishes an ad in a newspaper in search of someone who will console and understand her. She thus contacts Pirucho, a neighborhood produce salesman, lady's man and would-be tango teacher. As they are about to meet, she gets mixed up and involved with Julian, a rather good-looking chap who is on a lucky streak.

41. Debajo del mundo, Beda Docampo Feijóo et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), San José, Uruguay, 198-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Sergio Renán, Bárbara Mujica, Víctor Laplace.

42. Delirio, Arturo García Buhr et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Arturo García Buhr, Irma Córdoba, Rosa Rosen.

43. Después de ayer, Hebert Posse Amorin et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Liporace, María José Demare, Oscar Ferreiro.

44. Detective a contramano, Jorge Costa Fynn et al., 1 videocassette (32 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Juan Carlos Mareco (Pinocho), Mirta Torres, Roberto Fontana, Didio Pastorino.
    Abstract: The adventures of a young mystery story fan who becomes embroiled in a situation requiring real detective work.

45. Deus e o diabo na terra do sol Dios y el Diablo en la tierra del sol, Glauber Rocha et al., 1 videocassette (115 min.), Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Mauricio do Valle, Geraldo del Rey, Othon Bastos.
    Abstract: An account of the adventures of fictional hired gunman Antonio das Mortes, set against the real life last days of rural banditism. The movie follows Antonio as he witnesses the descent of common rural worker Manuel into a life of crime, joining the gang of Antonio's sworn enemy, Corisco the Blond Devil, and the Pedra Bonita Massacre.

46. Días de odio Emma Zanz, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson et al., 1 videocassette (60 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Elisa Christián Galvé, Nicolás Fregues, Virginia Romay.

47. Dieciseís años, Carlos Hugo Christensen et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: María Duval, George Rigaud, Alicia Barrié.

48. Dieste la conciencía de la forma, Mariano Arana, Eladio Dieste, and Imágenes (Firm), 1 videocassette (49 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Interviewer: Mariano Arana.
    Abstract: Interview with Uruguayan architect Eladio Dieste which originally took place on Oct. 8, 1990. Noted Uruguayan architect Mariano Arana makes an inquiry into the life and work of Dieste. Dieste, trained as a engineer, has dedicated himself to humanizing architecture and creating a body of architectronic thought in which originality and beauty--the plasticity of form and the ordering of space cease being a purely aesthetic expression in order to fill human necessities.

49. Divorcio en Montevideo, Manuel Romero et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Nini Marshall, Enrique Serrano, Sabina Olmos.

50. El acompañamiento, Carlos Orgambide et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Carlos Carella, Franklin Caicedo, María Rosa Gallo, Haydée Padilla.
    Abstract: Tuco, a man on the verge of retirement, is an amateur singer, who, as many others like him, considers himself the mythical successor of Carlos Gardel. Someone has played a bad prank on him, promising him a television debut, and, risking everything, he breaks ties with everyone around him, shuts himself up in his attic to practice singing and waits impaitiently for the arrival of the guitarists, his accompaniment.

51. El ausente, Rafael Filippelli et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Omar Rezk, Roberto Suter, Ana María Mazzaza.
    Abstract: Raúl Salas is the general secretary of a major union in Córdoba, Argentina who is trying to fight the union politics as best he can despite continual defeat. It is a time of unrest, around 1975, and Salas watches and hopes that what he builds will last. However, even the greatest of leaders can only do so much.

52. El capitán Pérez, Enrique Cahen Salaberry et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Olinda Bozán, José Olarra, Alberto Bello.

53. El cordon de la vereda, Jorge Barreiro et al., 1 videocassette (52 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
    Abstract: On an October day in 1986, Jorge Barreiro interviews a great variety of people on different subjects, maintaining a light touch even though the topics are serious. He asks old men and women, children, teenagers, mothers, fathers, etc. what they think about human rights, politics, the visit of the Pope, the military, etc.

54. El cura gaucho, Lucas Demare et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Muiño, Aída Alberti, Eloy Alverez.

55. El deseo, Emilio Villalba Wells et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Roberto Airaldi, Santiago Gomez Cou, Aida Luz, Elsa O'Connor.
    Abstract: A young woman is accused of murder.

56. El dirigible un film uruguayo, Pablo Dotta et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Montevideo, Urugay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Laura Schneider, Marcelo Buquet, Eduardo Miglionico, Gonazlo Cardozo, Ricardo Espalter.
    Abstract: At the turn of the century, Baltasar Brum, ex-president of Uruguay, commited suicide in front of numerous photographers. Yet nowhere are the pictures which had captured the exact moment of his death. A young women, who claims be French, met with the famous Uruguay writer, Juan Carlos Onetti. She confirms that the interview had taken place in Montevideo, with the writer ingognito, immediately following many years of voluntary exile. Yet photos from this meeting have likewise disappeared. What is the meaning of the pictures in a place without memory?

57. El extrano caso de la mujer asesinada, Boris Hardy et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: María Duval, George Rigaud, Francisco Martínez Allende.

58. El fabricante de estrellas, Manuel Romero and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.

59. El gordo catástrofe, Hugo Moser et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Porcel, Moria Casán, Graciela Alfano.
    Abstract: Catrasca is a big man who is very accident prone. He is a chef for a nice restaurant and also cooks during the day for a boys home. One day, he gets hit by the car of a beautiful lady who then takes him to her home where her father, a doctor, takes care of him. Catrasca then ends up working for their family and manages to get caught up in the revealing of a secret potion that the doctor has created.

60. El heroico Bonifacio, Enrique Cahen Salaberry et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Iglesias, Nélida Romero, Andrés Mejuto.

61. El hijo del crack, Leopoldo Torres Ríos, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.

62. El hombre de Walter, Carlos Ameglio et al., 1 videocassette (54 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Gustavo Escanlar, Ileana Burnet, Ricardo Couto, Adriana Figueroa, Rosario González, Daniela Luna, Roberto Fontana, Omar Bouhid, Gabriela Martínez, Ana Inés Rodríguez Larreta.
    Abstract: In this surrealistic film, a little man travels through an enormous and rambling house full of traps that invariably lead to women (most of them naked), until ending at a fatuous presidential reception. And always there lurks a giant turtle, waiting to attack.

63. El Inquisidor de Lima el fuego del pecado, Bernardo Arias et al., 1 videocassette, La Paz, Uruguay, 198-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Duilo Marzio, María Aurelia Bisutti, Elena Sedova.

64. El misterioso Tio Sylas, Máximo Berrondo and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
    Abstract: Muet (Elsa O'Connor), daughter of wealthy businessman (Ricardo Galache) is left with the responsibility of rehabilitating her mysterious uncle Sylas, after her father's death.

65. El morocho del abasto, Julio Rossi et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Rolando Chaves, Tito Lusiardo, Pierina Dealessi.

66. El picnic de los Campanelli, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette (70 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Anchart, Dorita Burgos, Osvaldo Canonico.
    Abstract: A family picnic turns out to be more than just a day of relaxation. A group of four men end up chasing their stolen suitcase of money that the family has accidently taken on their picnic with them. The men go through many of the day's activities just to get what they want. Still, by the end, everyone ends up content with their day away from the city.

67. El profesor punk, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Porcel, Julio de Grazia, Beatríz Salomón.
    Abstract: Amadeo Pancurullo is the music teacher at a coeducational high school. He goes on a camping trip with his students and a few other teachers. Two prisoners who have escaped from jail end up in their midst when they hunt for loot buried just in the center of the camp.

68. El professor Cero, Luis César Amadori et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Arias, Zully Moreno, Osvaldo Miranda.

69. El reñidero, René Mugica et al., 1 videocassette (65 min.), Montevideo, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Alfredo Alcón, Francisco Petrone, Jorge Salcedo.
    Abstract: Wealthy Argentine ranch owner, Don Pancho Morales, gets mysteriously murdered. His emotionally disturbed daughter, Elena, who was in love with him convinces her brother Orestes that her mother and the groundskeeper, Soriano, were responsible for the murder. Orestes is faced with the decision of avenging his father or believing the truth that his mother tells him.

70. El retrato, Carlos Schlieper et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Mirtha Legrand, Juan Carlos Thorry, Alberto Bello.

71. El rey de patagonia, Stephàne Kurc et al., 1 videocassette (118 min.), Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Omar Sharif, Carla Gravina, Frederic van den Driesseche.
    Abstract: Antoine de Tounens, also known as Orélie-Antoine (or Orllie-Antoine), a young French solicitor from Périgaux, embarked on an adventure in Patagonia in 1857. He saw a chance to fulfil his destiny by proclaiming himself king of Patagonia-Araucania, composing a constitution, and asserting independence from Chile. With the aid of Kipeyan, his native Minister of War, he found support in the Patagonian natives, who had suffered under successive invaders--the Incas in the 15th century, the Spaniards in the 16th-17th century, and then the Chileans. He exploited a legend which prophecied that a white man would join them in fighting off his brother invaders. When Chile moved against him and his subjects, he promised help from France--help which never materialized. Soon the Kingdom of Patagonia-Auracania collapsed, and with it, King Orélie-Antoine I.

72. El siglo del viento, Fernando Birri et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Uruguay, 1998.
    Notes: Performer Note: Narrator: Eduardo Galeano.
    Abstract: Based on the third vol. of Eduardo Galeano's "Memorias del fuego," the film attempts to encompasses the entire experience of Latin America in the 20th century through archival films, animation, and interviews. Located somewhere between fact and fiction, the films explores such topics as urban violence, the conquest of the city by automobiles, the Brazilian farmers' movement Sin Terra, and the Zapatistas, the first postmodern Internet guerrillas.

73. El solterón, Fernando Mujica et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Serrano, Juan Carlos Thorry, Fanny Navarro.
    Abstract: Tomasito is a bachelor and a member of an old family who lives in the center of the city, uncontaminated by ideas about the night life. He travels to Europe and discovers a new world in the temptations of the Old World. Many years later, he discovers he has a 30 year-old son and decides to help him avoid the depths to which he, himself fell.

74. El tropero ; 21 días, Ildefonso Beceiro et al., 1 videocassette (21 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: 21 días: Martita Lujan, Carment Ferrod, Andrés Redondo
    Contents: El tropero (8 min. ; b&w) -- 21 días (13 min. ; col.).
    Abstract: Two short films by Urugayan filmmaker Ildefonso Beceiro. El tropero attempts to evoke the men whose work was a fundamental factor in the country's economic development. 21 días tells the story of a young girl who takes her beloved chicken to market.

75. El viejo doctor, Mario Soffici et al., 1 videocassette (76 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Muiño, Alicia Vignoli, Angel Magaña.
    Abstract: An old, traditional doctor comes into conflict with a young doctor with new medical ideas and practices.

76. El Zorro pierde el pelo, Mario C Lugones et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Iglesias, Fidel Pintos, María Esther Gamas.

77. En la B.C.G. no engorda, Jorge Esmoris et al., 1 videocassette (33 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 198.
    Notes: Performer Note: Antimurga BCG.
    Abstract: Musical-theatrical production filled with black and irreverent humor. The background of the production is the Uruguayan carnival to which the comedic group is travelling on a bus. The comedy pokes fun at insanity in general and the Uruguayan national character in particular.

78. En Praga, Mario Handler and Universidad de la República (Uruguay), 1 videocassette (15 min.), Uruguay, 1964.

79. Encuentros muy cercanos con señoras de cualquier tipo, Hugo Moser et al., 1 videocassette (84 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel, Moria Casán.
    Abstract: A business man hires two comedians to close a deal with some clients in exchange for financing their own theater. The comedians convince two aspiring actresses to pose as their wives. The comedians at last gain their own theater but only after many adventures.

80. Ernesto "Che" Guevara le journal de Bolivie = Das bolivianische Tagebuch, Richard Dindo et al., 1 videocassette (94 min.), Montevideo, Urugay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Narrators: Rodolfo de Souza, Anita Vallejo.
    Abstract: Documentary based on Guevera's diary of his futile 11-month attempt to spark a revolution in Bolivia in 1967.

81. Expedición Atlantis, Alfredo Barragán, Centro de Actividades Deportivas, Exploración y Investigación (Argentina), and Video Scope (Firm), 1 videocassette (83 min.), Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Narrators: Alfredo Barragán, Andrés Salcedo.
    Abstract: The film shows the preparations and the journey on the raft Atlantis from Africa to South America by members of the Centro de Actividades Deportivas, Exploración y Investigación (CADEI).

82. Fantasma en la Patagonia, Claudio Remedi and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette (82 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay.
    Abstract: Sierra Grande is a city of 18,00 people in Patagonia. In 1992, the governor under President Menem closed the HIPARSA iron mines, causing nearly one-third of the population to leave during the economic difficulties which followed. The mine was converted to a tourist site Those remaining live in hope of a reactivation of the mines.

83. Filomena Marturano, Luis Mottura and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.

84. Fin de fiesta, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.

85. La flor de la Mafia, Hugo Moser et al., 1 videocassette (113 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Zulma Faiad, Federico Luppi, Rodolfo Ranni.
    Abstract: 1974: murders commited by Lucho demonstrate the force of his criminal organization, and a mysterious woman out to revenge her mother's death. The Mafia, drugs, prostitution and a series of tangles send Lucho into a crisis as Sandra meets Alfredo and create a new Mafia.

86. Fotografo de señoras, Hugo Moser et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Porcel, Graciela Alfano, Adolfo García Grau.
    Abstract: Jorge works for a newspaper and is unknowingly always getting caught in the middle of everything. He is a photographer and obtains some inappropriate pictures of his boss that need to be destroyed. However, the hunt for the negatives becomes a confusing adventure that leads to one mess after another.

87. La fuerza ciega, Luis J Moglia Barth and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.

88. La furia, Juan Buatista Stagnaro et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Luis Brandoni, Diego Torres, Laura Novoa.
    Abstract: Lombardi is a judge in charge of investigating an important case related to drugs. He shows no interest in his own son, Marcos, when he is arrested. Lombardi must choose between being a father and a judge; he chooses his professional role and lets his innocent son go to jail. The young man's girlfriend will fight endlessly to prove his innocence.

89. Galería del terror, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 86 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1988.
    Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel, Mario Sánchez.
    Abstract: Jorge and Alberto, unemployed, decide to seek their fortunes as foremen at a new galery opening nearby. The owner, Professor Van Strudel, happens to be looking for two dupes to carry out his evil plans. With the assistance of the innnocent complicity of a group of people working under hypnosis, he plans to inaugurate a galery of terror in which the spectators will enter and be hiypnotized into exchanging their 100 australe bills for conterfeit ones. It is up to Jorge and Alberto to discover the Professor's plans and take control.

90. Gardel, ecos del silencio, Pablo Rodríguez et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Montevideo, Urugay, 1998.
    Notes: Performer Note: Juan Manuel Tenuta, Ricardo Espalter, Carlos Hernández.
    Abstract: Based on research that claims Carlos Gardel was born in Tacuarembo, Uruguay, the film is a fictionalized account of his youth spent in the streets and bowling alleys of Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Tacuarembo.

91. Gente en Buenos Aires, Eva Landeck et al., 1 videocassette (? ;min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
    Notes: Performer Note: Luis Brandoni, Irene Mórack, Arturo Maly, Adrián Ghio.
    Abstract: A film about a telephone romance between two people who are under the impression that they are strangers, but who in acutality are acquaintances. The film shows that a relationship can be more profound and intimate when there is a physical distance involved.

92. Giacomo, Augusto César Vatteone et al., 1 videocassette (72 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Luisa Arata, Carmen Lamas, Felipe Fernansuar.

93. Graciadio, Raúl Perrone et al., 1 videocassette (60 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1997.
    Notes: Performer Note: Gustavo Prone, Violeta Naón, Mauro Alchuler.
    Abstract: A day in the life of three young people Gus, Pao, and Mendo. Gus and Pao are dating and Pao has gotten pregnant. We see with whom and where these three go, but no real ambition exists amongst them.

94. Gran Valor!, Enrique Cahen Salaberry et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 97 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay.
    Notes: Performer Note: Juan Carlos Calabro, Graciela Alfano, Nelly Laínez.
    Abstract: Abel Amoroso is a boyish and clumsy sort. He dreams that he is kidnapped by Luis Santanelli, a criminal who resembles him in many physical characteristics. Santanelli then proceeds to step into Amoroso's life, taking over both his work and his financée.

95. Gran Valor en la facultad de medicina, Enrique Cahen Salaberry et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Juan Carlos Calabro, Adriana Aguirre, Mónica Gonzaga.
    Abstract: A gentleman named Gran Valor works in a café serving coffee. He has a photographic memory and when his friend gets put in jail for a crime he did not commit, Gran Valor decided to step in and take his medical exam for him. All goes well, until he is found out and then his family must figure out how to expose the truth. Sequel to Cahen Salaberry's 1979 film Gran Valor!

96. La guerra gaucha, Enrique Muiño et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1992.
    Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Muiño, Francisco Petrone, Angel Magaña.
    Abstract: A dramatization of the war of independence in northwest Argentina.

97. La guerra la gano Yo, Sixto Pondal Ríos et al., 1 videocassette (68 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1995?
    Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Arias, Ricardo Passano, Alberto Contreras, Virginia Luque.
    Abstract: During World War II, a shopkeeper in a suburb of Buenos Aires works to become very rich.

98. La Habanera, Gerhard Menzel et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Karl Martell, Ferdinand Marian, Zarah Leander.
    Abstract: Don Pedro de Avila, an elegant landowner of Puerto Rico, is conquered by Astree, the rebellious travelling Swedish woman. They get married and have a child. Their relationship begins to change and Don Pedro holds Astree a prisoner. Homesick, all Astree's pent-up hatred of her husband and his island breaks out when her childhood friend Dr. Sven appears to investigate the cause of a vicious fever to which the island has fallen prey. Don Pedro is determined at all costs to prevent the epidemic from becoming public knowledge in order to save his fruit export business.

99. Había una vez un circo, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
    Notes: Performer Note: Gaby, Fofó, Emilio "Miliki" Aragón, Mercedes Carreras, Jorge Barreiro.
    Abstract: Andrea, the daughter of a rich man named Sebastián has fallen in love with the circus. When she becomes sick, the circus seems to be the only cure for her. Meanwhile, her father goes out late at night with Carla whom he plans to marry. However, he is unaware that she is really only interested in his money. Thus, the circus eventually proves that it not only brings happiness to Andrea, but Sebastián finds out what he has been looking for as well.

100. Hay que educar a Niní, Luis César Amadori and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.

101. Hay unos tipos abajo, Emilio Alfaro et al., 1 videocassette (92 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 1988?
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Brandoni, Luisina Brando, Marta Bianchi.
     Abstract: Julio, a newspaper journalist finds three dead men in a car in the basement of his house. Because of the fear and anxiety caused by this discovery, his life and his relationships with friends and girlfriend begin to change.

102. Hijo mio, Roberto Gavaldón et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Dolores del Río, Pedro López Lagar, Eduardo Noriega.

103. La historia del tango, Manuel Romero et al., 1 videocassette (65 min.), Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fernado Lámas, Tito Lusiardo, Severo Fernández.
     Abstract: A story of the dance Tango and how it developed to become so popular. Involves the romance between two famous people of the dance, Juan Carlos and Aurora Vega (La Morocha). They had a child, but Juan Carlos went off with someone else and Aurora stayed alone raising her daughter in hopes of her lover's return. Meanwhile, she remains good friends with a man that always loved her and now after having lost his wife wishes to reunite with Aurora. In the end, everyone gets what they deserved.

104. Hoy le toca a mi mujer, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Malvina Pastorino, Mercedes Carreras.

105. Idea, Idea Vilariño and Imágenes (Firm), 1 videocassette (37 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Narrators, Ariel Caldarelli, Gloria Demassi.
     Abstract: Interview of poet Idea Vilariño and an examination of her life through documentary footage, photos and excerpts of feature films that illustrate the themes of her poetry and political experience. Vilariño is considered one of the major living poets of the Spanish language by some critics. Her work represents one of the few meeting places between critical acclaim and popular acceptance in Uruguayan literature Her childhood, her ghosts, her desolated vision of a world without God, the tormented weight of suffering in her relationship with Juan Carlos Onetti all shaped the woman who has expressed the deepest feelings of love and pain in Uruguayan literature.

106. Intermezzo criminal, Luis J Moglia Barth et al., 1 videocassette (89 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Olinda Bozán, Pablo Palitos.

107. Invasión, Hugo Santiago et al., 1 videocassette (116 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Olga Zubarry, Lautaro Murúa, Juan Carlos Paz.

108. Io sono Anna Magnani, Chris Vermorcken, Pierre Films, and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette (95 min.), Montevideo, 199.
     Abstract: Using film clips, interviews with the star and many who worked with her, as well as actual footage from her funeral, this video chronicles the adult life and work of Anna Magnani.

109. José María y María José, Rodolfo Costamagna et al., 1 videocassette (107 min.), Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Brandoni, Cristina del Valle, Marta Bianchi, Gabriela Gili.
     Abstract: A pair of sweethearts whose families are of very different political backgrounds, face a dilemma: should she remain pregnant and together they assume the responsabilities with all the familiar problems, or opt for the "simple" way out that abortion offers.

110. Joven, viuda y estanciera, Luis Bayón Herrera et al., 1 videorecassette, Montevideo, Urugay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mecha Ortiz, Santiago Arrieta, Segundo Pomar.

111. Juan Manuel de Rosas, Manuel Antín et al., 1 videocassette (120 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Rodolfo Bebán, Sergio Renán, Alberto Argibay, José María Gutiérrez, Miryan de Ridder, Teresa Barreto, Ricardo Passano, Onofre Lovero, Pedro Aleandro, Osvaldo Brandi, Tito Alonso, Andrés Percivale, Roberto Airaldi, Enrique Kossi, Silvia Legrand, Jorge Barreiro.
     Abstract: A film about the controversial historical figure, covering his life from 1820 to 1849.

112. Juliana, Rene Weber et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1992?
     Notes: Performer Note: Rosa Isabel Molfino, David Zúñiga, Edward Centeno.
     Abstract: Feature film done in documentary style about a poor young girl named Juliana who becomes the leader of a group of Peruvian street children as they try to defy the brutal repression of the military regime. Juliana hides her sex in order to effectively lead her band of children. She must also put aside her own childhood in order to succeed.

113. Kilométro 111, Mario Soffici et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Arias, Angel Magaña, Delia Garcés.
     Abstract: Social-folkloric drama about the social conflicts which arise when the railroad comes to a rural area.

114. Kuma Ching, Daniel Tinayre et al., 1 videocassette (87 min.), Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Lola Flores, Narciso Ibáñez Menta.
     Abstract: Under their dictator, GAO, a Spanish fascist regime, plans to kidnap a brilliant Spanish scientist (Luis Sandrini) to acquire the secret and power of the atomic bomb for themselves. In the process of doing so they are forced to kidnap his daughter who is a famous music artist (Lola Flores).

115. Labios de Churrasco, Raúl Perrone et al., 1 videocassette (60 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Fabián Vena, Violeta Naón, Gustavo Prone.

116. Las Aguas bajan turbias, Hugo del Carril et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Hugo del Carril, Raúl Del Valle, Gloria Ferrandiz, Pedro Lazalt.
     Abstract: The men who indenture themselves to work in the mate plantations of the north band together to fight the abuses of the land owners.

117. Las apariencias engañan, Carlos Rinaldi et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Adolfo Stray, Alberto Bello, Enrique García Satur.
     Abstract: Indeneo, the "scapegoat" of a wealthy family, often takes the blame for others in an attempt to save the family from crisis. In one instance, he lies to save his brother from embarrassment and is ostracized from his family. In a strange turn of events, the truth prevails and he is immediately forgiven and offered the family business.

118. Las cosas del querer, Jaime Chávarri et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Angela Molina, Angel de Andrés Lopéz, Manuel Bandera.
     Abstract: A drama set in 1940s Madrid. It follows the fortunes of three vaudeville performers: handsome Juan, who plays piano for his passionate girlfriend Pepita, and her onstage partner, flamboyant Mario. Like Pepita, Mario is in love with straight man Juan; rebuffed, he happily moves his attention to a string of lovers. After an affair with a young nobleman, whom Mario spurns, the nobleman's mother concocts a nasty revenge.

119. Las cosas del querer, 2a parte, Jaime Chávarri et al., 1 videocassette (101 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay.
     Notes: Performer Note: Angela Molina, Manuel Bandera, Susú Pecoraro, Darío Grandinetti, Antonio Valero.
     Abstract: At the end of forty years, Pepita, Mario and Juan go their separate ways. Mario, exiled from Spain. Pepita and Juan resume their romance until Nena Colman, a second chorus line singer, blinded by jealousy, murders Juan. Mario, in Argentina, continues his triumphal artistic career. Pepita, reunites with him in Buenos Aires, where she meets Tullio. Tullio decides to reorganize his life and to live his future together with her. However, Pepita, artistically reunited with Mario, cannot abandon him.

120. La ley de la frontera, Adolfo Aristarain et al., 1 videocassette (120 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pere Ponce, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Achero Mañas, Federico Luppi.
     Abstract: Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang. João and Xan were both born on the same day, one in Spain and the other in Portugal. As they get older, neither of them wanted to keep leading the type of life they had. Thus, they both planned an escape and unexpectedly ran into each other and quickly decided to travel together. Their adventures included a lot of robbing and stealing as they searched for what they wanted out of life.

121. Lluvia de amor Adíos Alejandra, Carlos Rinaldi et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Angel Magaña, Amelia Bence, Raúl Padovani.

122. Lo que le paso a Reynoso, Leopoldo Torres Río et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Muiño, Florén Delbene, Pola Alonso.

123. Les longs manteaux Expreso a la emboscada, Gilles Béhat et al., 1 videocassette, Uruguay, 198-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Bernard Giraudeau, Federico Luppi, Oscar Cruz, Cláudia Ohana.

124. Los amores de Laurita, Antonio Ottone et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alica Zanca, Víctor Laplace, Daniel Fanego.

125. Los chicos crecen, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Susana Campos, Marcelo Marcote.
     Abstract: Antonio has been asked by a good friend to pose as the father of three children of a woman that he is having an affair with. Antonio agrees for the sake of the children and until the truth is revealed. However, he becomes very close with the children and as his friend is trying to figure out his own life, Antonio finds where he really needs to be.

126. Los colimbas al ataque, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 87 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1988.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel, Mario Sánchez.
     Abstract: Albeto and Jorge are completing their obligatory military service. There seems to be a great deal of incompetance in their company and the Lieutenant Colonel confesses to the Chaplain that because of a couple of useless soldiers, the whole company has been punished. His superior requests that he put together a small group to carry out a dangerous mission in the jungle. He doesn't hesitate to include Jorge and Alberto in the "high risk" group, not realizing what a high risk they are to themselves.

127. Los drogadictos, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 198u.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mercedes Carreras, Graciela Alfano, Juan José Camero.
     Abstract: Two rival drug operations compete for power as law enforcement agents get closer to breaking up their illegal dope rings.

128. Los extraterrestres, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Olmedo, Jorege Porcel, Luisa Albinoni.
     Abstract: The heroes come across an alien one night when they are stuck in the forest. It is a friendly alien that they have named Mongito. They take him back to the hotel where they work and while there Mongito uses his alien powers to help the two men when they get in trouble. Still, Mongito must escape before the wrong people get a hold of him.

129. Los hijos de López, Enrique Dawi et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, Argentina, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Martín, Jorge Barreiro, Alejandra da Passano.
     Abstract: The López family is fairly normal. Their everyday problems stem from the two sons' auto repair business. Then Martín, one of the sons, becomes unhappy with his marriage. Fortunately his secretary is able to help him out.

130. Los insomnes, Pedro G Orgambide and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
     Abstract: In an apartment complex of a big city lives a man named Carlitos who is married and has four kids. Their complex is filled with many strange neighbors. On the fifth floor, the kids find a young man that is being held captive and they try all they can to help him. In another apartment, a woman is selling off newborns. The children try to get their parents to believe them, but no one does and so they just run around the complex by night hardly ever sleeping.

131. Los isleros, Lucas Demare et al., 1 videocassette (112 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199.
     Notes: Performer Note: Tita Merello, Arturo García Buhr, Roberto Fugazol.

132. Los martes, orquideas, Pondad Rios y Olivari et al.Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Enrique Errano, Mirtha Legrand, Juan Carlos Thorry.
     Abstract: A romantic adolescent, the youngest girl in a large family, starts receiving orchids from a secret admirer.

133. Los ojos del monte, Omero Capozzoli et al., 1 videocassette (20 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Leonor Alvarez (Juana), Blas Braidot (Benjamín), Juan Gentile (Abuelo), Gonzalo Presno (Simón), Mauro Real de Azáa (Gurí), Alvarez Baillo Belucci, Campochiaro Figueroa Gómez.
     Abstract: A story of the defense of the territory of Uruguay before the Portuguese invasion in the nineteenth century.

134. Los ojos en la nuca, Grupo Hacedor (firm) et al., 1 videocassette (55 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Music, Fernando Ulivi ; editing, José Aprile.
     Abstract: A documentary film about the transition from a dictatorship to a democracy in Argentina in the 1970's, dealing mainly with amnesty for political prisoners and full disclosure of the disappearances during the dictatorship.

135. Los pulpos, César Tiempo et al., 1 videocassette (75 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1995?
     Notes: Performer Note: Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nicolás Freques, Carlos Thompson.
     Abstract: A man succeeds as a writer but fails in health and in love.

136. Los tres berretines, Luis Arata et al., 1 videocassette (59 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 190-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Arata, Luis Sandrini, Hector Quintarilla.
     Abstract: A shopkeeper has three sons with very different characters.

137. Los ultimos vermicellis, Carlos Arsuaga et al., 1 videocassette ( min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Sobrino, Imilce Viños, Alfonso Montero.
     Abstract: A South American take on George Orwell's 1984 in which fat people are persecuted and hunted down in a world where fitness is everything, and the underground movement of the "gordos" is comprised of fat people who gather to share one of the most forbidden fruits--large portions of food which the government has deemed unhealthy. A theatrical production.

138. Lua de cristal, Tizuka Yamasaki et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Xuxa, Sergio Mallandro, Letícia Spiller.
     Abstract: Fairytale about a beautiful young woman who goes to the big city in search of her fame and fortune. She is sent to a hotel run by an evil-stepmother type and made to work as a lowly servant, but soon overcomes her circumstances to find happiness and love.

139. Lucrecia Borgia, Luis Bayón Herrera et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Olinda Bozán, Marcos Caplán, Gloria Bernal.

140. Luna de miel en Río, Manuel Romero et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, distribuida por Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Catita (Niní Marshall), Tito Lusiardo, Enrique Serrano.

141. La luna en el espejo, José Donoso et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Gloria Munchmeyer, Rafael Benavente, Ernesto Beadle.
     Abstract: An old man has shut himself up in his house with his son to tend him. His chief aim is to control his son who, although obedient and submissive, cooks home-made pies and dreams of owning a restaurant, both desiring and fearing his eventual liberty. Their neighbor is a childlike widow who so entrances the son that he dares break out of his confinement which pushes the father to play his last card to recover control over him.

142. Mala sangre, Ricardo Islas et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Estela Moreno, Ricardo Islas, Claudia Faget.
     Abstract: Leonardo Torres went for an interview in a neighboring town named Castillos. However, while there he came in contact with a deadly disease. When he returned home, his wife started noticing his strange behavior and soon enough it became so bad that he had to get locked up. While the doctors tried to find out what was wrong with him, his wife did some searching on her own. She eventually finds out the truth but almost too late.

143. Malabrigo, Jorge Guerra et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1992?
     Abstract: Dramatization of social and economic changes in a Peruvian seacoast village.

144. Malambo, Alberto de Zavalía et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay :bVideograma, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Delia Garcés, Oscar Valicelli, Orestes Caviglia.

145. La malavida, Hugo Fregonese et al., 1 videocassette (107 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Hugo del Carril, Soledad Silveyra, Víctor Laplace.

146. Malvinas, historias de traiciones, Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette (84 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Interviewers: Gustavo Montiel, Micheal Chanan, Jorge Denti.
     Abstract: Using an abundance of documentary material, including interviews of diverse Argentine and English personalities, director Jorge Denti tries to explain how the Argentine and the English people were betrayed by their respective governments, bringing them to a war that, in the case of the Argentines, they were not prepared to face. The real issue stands out clearly as the conflict is framed in the context of the expansionistic and aggressive policy of British imperialism and its allies.

147. Mama era punk, Marisol Santelices et al., 1 videocassette (? min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
     Abstract: Documentary film about the dictatorship in Chile and the sociological aspects of the rebellion of Chilean youth. The rebellion is destructive as it expresses itself in drug abuse and crime and constructive as it leads to political action and protests against the regime.

148. Man in the marshlands, Hilary Sandison et al., 1 videocasette (38 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1990.
     Abstract: Describes the extensive wetlands in the Rocha region of Uruguay, its wildlife, the people who live and work in the wetlands, and the threats to its continued existance.

149. Marianella, Julio Porter et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Olga Zubarry, Pedro Laxalt, José María Gutiérrez.

150. Maridos en vacaciones, Enrique Cahen Salaberry et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel, Javier Portales.
     Abstract: Jorge's and Alberto's wifes have gone away on vacation for a month, leaving the men to take care of themselves. Although they act sad that the women are leaving, Jorge and Alberto are actually very happy to be alone for awhile. They end up meeting some women and while trying to get a contract signed for work, they keep getting distracted.

151. Martín Aquino el ultimo matrero, Ricardo Romero Curbelo et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 115 min.), Uruguay, distribuida uruguaya de Telefilms, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Raúl Sola, Duilio Borch, Lidia Etchemendy, Mauro Cartagena.
     Abstract: At the end of the last civil war in Uruguay in 1904, there came a lasting peace. The eastern part of the country, however, saw sporadic new uprisings. In one of these uprisings, Martín Aquino is asked to participate as a guerrila leader--a role which he rejects.

152. Matrimonio a la Argentina, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Rodolfo Bebán, Jorge Barreiro, Mercedes Carreras.

153. Me gustan los estudiantes a documentary, Mario Handler, 1 videocassette (6 min.), Uruguay, 1968.

154. Me sobra un marido!, Gerardo Sofovich et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Juan Carlos Calabro, Susana Gimenez, Rodolfo Ranni.
     Abstract: A beautiful woman decides to remarry after the presumed death of her husband--an entomologist who disappeared into the jungle in search of a rare insect. This time she marries an industrialist and everything looks good...but then her first husband emerges from the jungle and wants to reclaim his wife.

155. La mentirosa, Luis César Amadori et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Niní Marshall, Miguel Gómez Bao, Pablo Palitos.

156. Mercedes Sosa, como un pájaro libre, Ricardo Wulicher et al., 1 videocassette (70 min.), Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Performers: Mercedes Sosa, Charly García, León Fieco, Areil Ramírez, Antonio Tarragó.
     Abstract: A documentary about singer Mercedes Sosa, with films of her performing and clips of interviews.

157. Mi mujer no es mi señora mi marido no funciona, Hugo Moser et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Alberto Olmedo, Nadiuska, Joe Rigoli.
     Abstract: Juan Carlos is the president of a modeling agency where he is very popular with many women. A cigarette company requests that he provide a model for their ads. Juan Carlos suddenly decides to have María, a pretty new model, do the job. However, first her mother must be convinced that her daughter will be all right. So with extra charm, Juan Carlos woos them both, marries María, and attempts to complete his business deal. However, Maria' s mother is unaware of the REAL Juan Carlos and so she tries to find out what her daughter has married.

158. Miedo satanico, Horacio Maldonado et al., 1 videocassette (75 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Daniel Miglioranza, Horacio Erman, Hugo Castro.
     Abstract: Elena is a student in a monastery where she was born and raised. She seems to be fine until one evening when she sneaks out with her friends, and all but one are mysteriously murdered and Elena becomes comatose. The doctors have a tough time trying to figure out what is wrong with her until Dr. Alberto starts getting strange telepathic messages. This leads to more investigations, more murders, and finally a revealing of a very scary past.

159. Miguitas en la cama, Mario C Lugones et al., 1 videocassette (81 min.), Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Daniel Morand, Florencia Valdez Peña, Alicia Morand.
     Abstract: Alícia, a young Spanish girl from and upper class family is caught between her separated parents, who each want custody. Her father is a rich high-rolling gambler, while her mother is a proper Spanish upper-class woman.

160. Mingo y Aníbal,dos pelotazos en contra, Enrique Cahen Salaberry et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Juan Carlos Altavista, Juan Carlos Calabro, Susana Traverso.
     Abstract: Mingo and Aníbal try to get close to a tennis star who has just come home with an important trophy in this slapstick comedy. They inadvertantly get mixed up in an plot to steal the trophy and emerge as heros.

161. Minguito Tinguitella, Papá, Enrique Dawi et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Juan Carlos Altavista, Javier Portales, Julio de Grazia, Vicente Larrusa.
     Abstract: The lives of Mingo and his cronies suddenly change when they find themselves taking care of a baby boy. As the child grows up, he takes after Mingo.

162. Montevideoproust, Hermes Salvador Millán Redin et al., 1 videocassette (135 min.), Montevideo, 1995.
     Notes: Performer Note: Cristina Ezquerra, Eduardo Vener, Rúben Yañez, Marcelino Duffau, Antonio Baldomir.
     Abstract: Montevideoproust tells the story of the destruccion of Montevideo due to unexpected volcanic explosion of the Cerro Pan de Azúcar. Amanda is a Uruguayan prostitute who flees the city for 20 years of Parisian exile. Marcel Proust, the famous French writer, leaves for Paris to flee from the scent of the chestnuts on his street. They cross paths in a city where only prostitutes, poets, painters and street musicians live.

163. Morir en su ley, Manuel Romero, Lumiton (Firm), and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette (80 min.), Montevideo, 1919.
     Abstract: Argentine criminal Pedro "El Pibe" Amalfi returns to Argentina after being forced to flee to Uruguay for a number of murders. His intentions once he returnd to Argentina are clear; to seek revenge on the man who forced him to flee. Chief of police Don Andres is Amalfi's target and he is determined on accomplishing his goal of revenge.

164. Mourir à Madrid Morir en Madrid], Frédéric Rossif et al., 1 videocassette (85 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1992.
     Notes: Performer Note: Narrators: Suzanne Flon, Germaine Montero, Pierre Vaneck.
     Abstract: Documentary showing the effects of the Spanish Civil War, using original footage from the time, integrated with footage shot in 1962. The martyrdom of the Spanish people has continued since 1936.

165. La muchachada de a bordo, Enrique Cahen Salaberry et al., 1 videocassette (74 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Leo Dan, Carlos Balá, Mariette.
     Abstract: Remake of the 1936 Lumiton production directed by Manuel Romero.

166. La muerte camina en la lluvia, César Tiempo et al., 1 videocassette (73 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Eduardo Cuitiño, Luis Otero, Horacio Peterson.
     Abstract: A serial killer who leaves a tag on his victims signed "S. Lopez" is terrorizing the city.

167. Mujeres que bailan, Manuel Romero et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Niní Marshall, Fidel Pintos, José María Gutiérrez.

168. Muy cerca de la muerte, Adolfo Aristarain, Eusebio Poncela, and Network (Firm), 1 videocassette, Uruguay, 198-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Eusebio Poncela.

169. Nace de libertád, Julio Saraceni et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Francisco de Paula, Orestes Caviglia, Pedro Maratea.
     Abstract: In the year 1812, Argentina had a huge battle of the commoners against the existing government. Amidst the chaos a soldier named Carlos Aguirre had fallen in love with Maria Christina. However, Christina's father does not approve because Carlos is not fighting for the government as the father would prefer. Thus, Carlos must figure out how to be with Christina once all the fighting is over.

170. Nazareno Cruz y el lobo las polomas y los gritos, Leonardo Favio et al., 1 videocassette (92 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Juan Carlos Camero, Marina Magalí, Lautaro Murua.
     Abstract: Nazareno is a seventh son and cursed to turn into a werewolf when night arrives.

171. No te mueras sin decirme a dónde vas, Eliseo Subielo et al., 1 videocassette (124 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Dario Grandinetti, Oscar Martínez, Mariana Arias.
     Abstract: Cinema projectionist Leopoldo is also an inventor. Seeking to develop "dream collector" , a machine able to record and reproduce the dream activity, he manufactures "heart translator ," an apparatus which, through an antenna, allows him to see the reality of the invisible one. When he tests the machine , he meets Rachel, the beautiful professional singer whom he loved hundred years earlier, in another life.

172. Noche de bodas, Julio Porter et al., 1 videocassette (76 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Paulina Jingerman, Enrique Jerrano, Irma Córdoba.
     Abstract: A disastrous wedding night with misunderstanding after misunderstanding, but everything ends well.

173. La noche y tú, Chano Urueta et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Hugo del Carril, Gloria Marín, Beatriz Ramos.

174. Obras maestras del terror, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Lilian Vaimar, Osvaldo Pacheco.

175. Olé torero, Benito Perojo et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Paquita Rico, Manolo Morán.

176. Onetti, ritrato de un escritor, Mercedes Rein et al., 1 videocassette (58 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1990.
     Notes: Performer Note: Interviewer, Hortensia Campanella
     Event Note: Largely taped in Madrid in 1989.
     Abstract: A portrait of writer Juan Carlos Onetti, largely in his own words, but with some observations by others.

177. Orquesta de señoritas, Luis César Amadori et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Niní Marshall, Francisco Alvarez, Zully Moreno.

178. Pajaro loco, Lucas Demare et al., 1 videocassette (100 min.), Argentina, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, María José Demare, Victor Laplace.
     Abstract: El Paraíso is a quaint little village where everything happens very slowly. The sole parrish priest, Father Antonio, does what he can for the village. One day, the opening of a new casino is anounced and everything changes overnight. Especially for Father Antonio because a young priest is on his way to the village with new ideas. But then Father Antonio discovers sinister forces behind the casino and a false authorization for its opening. The old priest goes to work to save his village.

179. , 1 videocassette (100 min.), Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mecha Ortiz, Alba Arnoia, Jorge Rivier.
     Abstract: Argentine ballet dancer Paula (Mecha Ortiz) finds that her love for dance is able to keep her performance company together through the trials of what it is to be a performer. Even though she loses the lead in the performance, she stays part of the company and keeps it going.

180. Palabra de honor, Luis César Amadori et al., 1 videocassette (77 min.), Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Alicia Vignoli, Roberto Airaldi.
     Abstract: Raul Lucera, wealthy owner of an ice cream factory, is a philanthropic individual surrounded by greedy and bitter executives. The factory workers plan a strike, led by Pitango (Roberto Airaldi), and Raul's reaction is to compromise, but his executives think he should fire them all. Meanwhile, Raul's secretary Laural (Alicia Vignoli) abuses Raul's trust in her to attempt to embezzle money from the factory.

181. Pampa bárbara, Hugo Fregonese et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Francisco Petrone, Luisa Vehil, Domingo Sapelli.
     Abstract: Pampa bárbara is a story of the violence and conflict which took place on the pampas of Argentina, when the creoles of the country wished to inhabit and cultivate the indigenously populated land. Francisco Perone, who acts as commandante Castro, plans to slaughter the indigenous peoples of the pampas and take the land for his country.

182. Papá tiene novia, Carlos Schlieper et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Amanda Ledesma, Aída Luz, Alberto Bello.

183. Pelota de trapo, Leopoldo Torres Ríos et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Armando Bó, Santiago Arrieta, Orestes Caviglia.
     Abstract: Traces the career of a top soccer player Eduardo Díaz from his rough childhood years through his first moment of triumph. Poor adolescent Argentinean children spend their vacation time playing soccer with a cloth soccer ball until it bursts one day. They soon formulate a plan to buy a real soccer ball. One of these children is Eduardo, destined to be a great soccer player.

184. Peluquería de señoras, Luis Bayón Herrera et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Amanda Ledesma, June Marlowe.

185. Pepita la pistolera, Beatriz Flores Silva et al., 1 videocassette (60 min.), Montevideo, 199.
     Notes: Performer Note: Margarita Musto, María Inès Flores, Silvia Cardenas
     Added Titles: Pepita the gunfighter ; La historia casi verdadera de Pepita la pistolera.
     Abstract: The film presents the story and plight of a young woman trying to give her daughter a decent life after her husband is unable to work because of illness, she herself cannot get a job and her wealthy sister is of little help. Rather than becoming a prostitute, she takes to holding up credit unions with the handle of a broken umbrella and a smile on her face.

186. Pimienta y Pimentón, Carlos Rinaldi et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, José Marrone, Cuny Vera.
     Abstract: Pimienta and Pimentón are two clowns of a traveling circus that are helping to raise two children whose parents died in an accident. However, in trying to fight for custody, these good friends must have a valid reason to keep the children. So, one of them decides to marry which works but creates some tension between them. In the end, despite any arguments, friendship is restored.

187. Plenilunio, Ricardo Islas et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Martín Cabrera, Riardo Islas, Ana Cecilia García.
     Abstract: On the night of a full moon, a very strange animal kills the father of three children and nobody knows how it happened exactly. Some teenagers start looking around and find out where the person/animal lives. However, the animal attacks again and this time there are more deaths. So, one of the teenagers and an older friend do some more investigating only to put them and their friends lives in danger.

188. Policia corrupto, Carlo Campanile et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Gerardo Romano, Ulises Dumont, Cristina Agüero.
     Abstract: Romero is a policeman in a special unit of investigators fighting narcotics trafficking. He is married, with a young son, who both become pawns when Romero's investigations lead him into a nest of corruption involving both traffickers and government officials.

189. Por esos ojos, Gonzalo Arijón et al., 1 videocassette (60 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Narrator: Héctor Manuel Vidal.
     Abstract: In 1976, Mariana Zaffaroni Islas, barely 18 days old, was kidnapped in Montevideo, presumably by a member of SIDE (Servicio de Información del Estado). Her family mounted a campaign to recover her and she became a symbol of the Disappeared during the time of the military regime. This is the story of her grandmother, María Esther Gatti de Islas, and her efforts to find her granddaughter, whom she never ceased believing to be alive.

190. Por esos ojos For these eyes, Gonzalo Arijón, Virginia Martínez, and First Run/Icarus Films, 1 videocassette (61 min.), New York, 1997.
     Abstract: In 1976, Mariana Zaffaroni Islas, barely 18 days old, was kidnapped in Montevideo, presumably by a member of SIDE (Servicio de Información del Estado). Her family mounted a campaign to recover her and she became a symbol of the Disappeared during the time of the military regime. This is the story of her grandmother, María Esther Gatti de Islas, and her efforts to find her granddaughter, whom she never ceased believing to be alive.

191. Puerta cerrada, Luis Saslavsky et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Libertad Lamarque, Angel Magaña, Agustín Irusta.

192. Queridas amigas, Pedro Orgamibide et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luisina Brando, Dora Baret, Graciela Dufau.
     Abstract: One of three best friends, Isabel, tracks down and gets in touch with the other two, Mary and Esther. They reminisce about old times and share the new experiences of their marriages and motherhood.

193. Quiere casarse conmigo?, Enrique Carreras et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 85 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Palito Ortega, Sonia Bruno, Eddie Pequenino.

194. Rancheador, Sergio Giral et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Reynaldo Miravalles, Adolfo Llaurado, Samuel Claxton, Salvador Wood.
     Abstract: Rancheadors were henchmen of the slave-owning colonialists in the Antilles charged with the task of pursuing fugitive slaves and returning them to their owners. Getting paid for his work by using the severed ear of a returned slave as proof of his success, Pedro Esteves, bloodthirsty central figure of this film not ony hunted down runaways but as others of his kind bolstered the power of the ruling class, cutting off the buds of rebellion and thus liberty for all the oppressed, blacks and whites alike.

195. Recuerdos de un angel, Enrique Cahen Salaberry and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Abstract: Alicia, the daughter of Angel, an upper-class Argentinean, is about to get married to an upper class businessman when Martin, a working class Argentinean climbs in through her window where she is waiting and he and Alicia run away. The family is outraged by the idea of Alicia marrying someone from the lower class, but Angel reminds them that he too came from a humble background and tells them about the trials that he went through to marry his wife Irene who was from the upper-class.

196. La règle du jeu La regla del juego : fantasie dramatique de Jean Renoir ; scenario et dialogues, Jean Renoir ;directeur de production, Claude Renoir ; Grands Films Classiques, Jean Renoir et al., 1 videocassette (104 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1995?
     Notes: Performer Note: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Rolan Toutain, Mila Parély
     Added Title: Rules of the game.
     Abstract: Complicated love intrigues among the high society guests at a weekend house party outside Paris are mirrored by parallel activities among the servants, showing the illnesses of a society locked into frivolous and futile social games.

197. Rodriguez, supernumerario, Enrique Cahen Salaberry et al., 1 videocassette (75 min), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Arias, Golde Fiami, Floren Delbene, Nelly Duggan, Maria Santos, Rafael Frontúra, Ilde Pirovano, Ricardo Castro Ríos.

198. Sala de espera, Luciano Alvarez et al., 1 videocassette (50 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Miriam Campos, Isabel Legarra, Ana Pouso, Rosa Simonelli, Andrea Villaverde, José Pedro Alberti, Jorge Esmoris, Laura Canoura, Gustavo Gomensoro, Daniel Montero, Nelly Antánez.
     Abstract: Docudrama about abortion and its psychological repercussions in Uruguay. Based on the work of psychologists Denise Defrey, Rasia Friedler, Miriam Náñez, Cristina Terra and Dr. José Luis Díaz Roselló.

199. Sandino, Miguel Littín et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 135 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Kris Kristofferson, Joachim de Almeida, Dean Stockwell.
     Abstract: A dramatized profile of the Nicaraguan guerilla leader, Augusto Calderón Sandino, who opposed U.S. intervention in support of the country's ruling clique under General Somoza. A contemporary American journalist interviews leading figures of the time.

200. Sarampion, una epidemia en Fray Bentos a documentary, Mario Handler, 1 videocassette (18 min.), Uruguay, 1973.

201. La serpiente de cascabel, Carlos Schlieper et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: María Duval, Juan Carlos Thorry, Homero Cárpena.

202. Shunko, Lautaro Murúa et al., 1 videocassette (72 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Graciela Rueda, Angel Greco, Carlos Garay.

203. Sicario, José Ramón Novoa et al., 1 videocassette 107 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Gledys Ibarra, Pedro Lander, Laureano Olivárez.
     Abstract: "Sicario" is a touching, horrifying story about an adolescent boy who takes extreme steps to help his mother escape poverty. Fed up with his family's suffocating poverty, 12-year-old Jairo takes a job as a hired assassin for a local druglord. Using his swiftness and his reflexes, Jairo becomes a top killer and is soon bringing his mother heaps of cash. Though she objects to the blood money, it is not for ethical reasons: She fears, rightly, that Jairo may wind up dead. Though he manages to protect himself, it's not long before Jairo has seen too much killing and wants to quit. As he soon learns, however, once you're in you never leave.

204. Sin pedar permiso, Maida Moubayed et al., 1 videocassette (33 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1989.
     Abstract: The state of women in Uruguay, particularly their struggle for political empowerment, told largely by interviews with professional women and people in the countryside, and in archival photographs.

205. Sorok pervyi El 41 : ultimo disparo, G Koltunov et al., 1 videocassette (86 min.), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Izol da Izvitskaia, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolai Kriuchkov.
     Abstract: During the times of the Russian Revolution a Communist woman-sniper takes custody of a Whity Army lieutenant with whom she gradually falls in love.

206. Su musica sueña todavía, Luis Nieto et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ricardo Beiro, Ricardo Couto, Franklin Rodríguez.
     Abstract: The story takes place in the city of Montevideo. A young rock guitar player, known as "El Ruano," wanted by the police for two murders, plans to attend a rock concert and defy the police inspector who's planning to trap him. On a crowded dance party in the suburbs of the city, a newspaper reporter meets by chance El Ruano and publishes an interview that irks the police inspector that's planning to catch him. The police officer has infiltrated his own son in El Ruano's rock band and plans a spectacular capture in front of his adoring fans. But El Ruano has his own scheme to escape from the police-controlled rock concert. While a double distracts the police, El Ruano steals away, killing the son of the police officer. Hell breaks loose ant the chase is on with a policeman bent on revenge, while the news reporter and a policewoman try to catch El Ruano before the deranged policeman has a chance to gun him down.

207. Subterráneos, Alejandro Bazzano et al., 1 videocassette (47 min.), Argentina, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Osvaldo Laport, Jorge Esmoris, Pepe Vásquez, Carlos Aldama, Vivian Sáez, Ricardo Couto, Rafael Salzano, Natalia Méndez.
     Abstract: Conceived as the pilot for a TV series, the film concerns a private detective who is contracted to investigate the disappearance of the daughter of a high class family, which appears to be related to a series of murders of fashion models. The atmospher is futuristic and vaguely Cyberpunk, with great attention to detail in passing, including religious sects whose members take walks in groups dressed in bright orange raincoats, twin assassins with identical black suits and white neckties, and other such things.

208. Sueños de hielo, Ignacio Agüero, Mar Films, and Enec Video Home (Firm), 1 videocassette 60 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199u.
     Abstract: For the 1992 Universal Exposition in Seville, Spain, the Chileans decided to bring ice from Antarctica. This movie is narrated by one of the ship's captains who takes the journey to Antarctica and then to Spain with iceberg in tow.

209. Surcos, Natividad Zavo et al.Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Peña, Maruja Asquerino, Francisco Arenzana.
     Abstract: The tragedy of people who move from the country, lose touch with the land and succumb to the dangers and seductions of the city.

210. Tahiti, Pablo Dotta et al., 1 videocassette (34 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pachi Freire, Walter Speranza, Eduardo Migliónico
     Added Title: Superficie.
     Abstract: A young couple embark on a trolley trip through Montevideo and as they travel they observe various people struggling to survive and existing in a state of paranoia and neurosis. By the end of the trip the once young couple are very old as they disembark on the beach.

211. Tatiana la mu unica rusa, Santiago San Miguel et al., 1 videocassette (95 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Karra Elejalde, Ornella Muti, Laura del Sol, Héctor Alterio.
     Abstract: This is the story of a young Russian woman and a expert capitalist. One day, they meet, fall in love, and soon they become tangled in a careful plot to gain influence in a wealthy, but corrupt company. After a time, their passion feels unsatisfying and infidelity creeps into their relationship.

212. Tiempo de morir, Gustavo Angarita et al., 1 videocassette (99 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 199.
     Notes: Performer Note: Gustavo Angarita, Maria Eugenia Davila, Reynaldo Miravelles.
     Abstract: This haunting film features the return of Juan Sallago to his hometown after 18 years in prison. Sallago tries to reclaim his life and love. To do so, he must confront his past and decide whether it is a time for rebirth or a "Time to Die".

213. Todo un heroe, Sergio Pugliese et al., 1 videocassette (73 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Arias, Delfy de Ortega, Milagros de la Vega.
     Abstract: Because of a mistaken identity, a very ordinary, somewhat hapless insurance agent is written up in the papers as a hero who has rescued a woman from a stormy sea. The results are interesting.

214. Todo un hombre, Pierre Chenal et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Francisco Patrone, Amelia Bence, Nicolás Fregues.

215. Toto Paniagua, Carlos Orgambide et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Ricardo Espalter, Enrique Almada, Enrique Liporace.

216. La trampa, Julio Porley et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 63 min.), Uruguay.
     Notes: Performer Note: Gustavo Gomensoro, Sara Bessio, Cristina Techera.
     Abstract: María marries her boss, Roberto, and he takes her to his mansion in the outskirts of Montevideo. The oppressive atmosphere makes María nervous, but Roberto assures her that there is nothing to worry about but when they go upstairs to their bedroom, he warns her not go to the top story; later he explains that a crazy, invalid relative is living upstairs and doesn't like to be disturbed. María soon takes over the task of taking the relative meals, which she slides through a compartment in the door. She discovers the relative is actually Roberto's brother, Alfredo, who warns her that Roberto is setting a trap for her, just as he did for Alfredo.

217. La Tregua, Bernardo Zupnik et al., 1 videocassette (? min.), Uruguay, 199.
     Notes: Performer Note: Héctor Alterio, Ana María Picchio, Norma Aleandro, Luis Brandoni.
     Abstract: A middle aged widower who runs an accounting service and struggles to keep his family of two sons and a daughter together, meets a young woman who brings joy back into his life. When she dies, his life is again shattered, but eventually he finds a new closeness with one of his sons who has been deeply troubled and reclusive.

218. Túpac Amaru, Federico García Reyes et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 95 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Abstract: The story of the last Inca--José Gabriel Tupac-Amaru--the Mestizo hero who rose in bloody rebellion against the Spanish power, is told in the setting of his trial and execution. The Tupac-Amaru movement extended throughout much of South America before being crushed.

219. Tupamaros, Video 44 (Firm) and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette (52 min.), S.l, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Abstract: In1963, the Uruguayan Movimento de Liberación Nacional Tupamaros was founded and after becoming visible in 1967, became the most popular urban guerrilla group in Latin America. Later, the military was invited to participate in the government, in part to fight the Tupamaros. This documentary shows the state of the movement soon after the military came to power.

220. Tute cabrero, Juan José Jusid et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pepe Soriano, Juan Carlos Gené, Luis Brandoni.

221. La última escuadrilla, Julio Saraceni et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199u.
     Notes: Performer Note: Tito Alonso, Juan Carlos Barbieri, Jacinto Henera.

222. Un bebé de contrabando, Eduardo Morera et al., 1 videocassette (80 min.), Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Luis Sandrini, Rufino Córdoba, Adrián Cuneo.
     Abstract: A young man by the name of Inocencio is put in charge of caring for a small baby. However, very quickly everyone thinks that he is the father. Thus, he sets out to prove who the father is but soon learns that the mother has died and so his efforts are made more difficult. His girlfriend Alicia tries to help locate the father as well, but it all seems in vain. Fortunately, the baby ends up in good hands, despite that in the past robbers and thieves had hunted the baby looking for what they had hidden in his diapers.

223. Un beso en la nuca, Luis Mottura et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Mirtha Legrand, Roberto Escalada, María Esther Podestá.

224. Un guapo del 900, Lautaro Murúa et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Jorge Salcedo, China Zorrilla, Chunchuña Villafañe.

225. Un guapo del 900, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Arturo García Buhr, Alfredo Alcón, Elida Gay Palmer.

226. Un hombre de la dueda externa, Pablo Oliva et al., 1 videocassette (82 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, Argentina, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Héctor Alterio, Luisina Brando, Jorge Mayorano.
     Abstract: The protagonist, an ordinary man, makes a fabulous fortune and decides to use it for paying off Argentina's external debt. His life and that of his wife radically change at that moment.

227. Una forma de bailar, Alvaro Buela et al., 1 videocassette (70 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1997.
     Notes: Performer Note: Leonardo Lorenzo, María Elena Pérez, Diego Wajner.
     Abstract: An unrepenitent Don Juan, an introverted buddy, their girlfriends, and the women they have their eyes on--all mix in the nightlife of Montevideo.

228. Una mujer cualquiera, Rafael Gil et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: María Félix, Antonio Vilar, Mary Delgado.

229. Veinte años y una noche, Alberto de Zavalía et al., 1 videocassette, Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Pedro López Lagar, Delia Garcés, Camila Quiroga.

230. La vida es un tango, Manuel Romero et al., 1 videocassette (88 min.), Montevideo, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Florencio Parravicini, Tito Lusiardo, Hugo del Carril.
     Abstract: Raúl, son of an Argentine theatrical performer, fulfills his dream of making Argentine tango music a voice. He becomes one of the many Argentine performers that made sung Argentine tangos famous worldwide.

231. Vida rapida una historia de Montevideo, Enec Video Home (Firm) et al., 1 videocassette (50 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Diego Méndez, Hugo Bardello, Gabriela Iribarren.
     Abstract: Marcelo and Lorena's story is based on real stories of juvenile delinquents in Montevideo's Ciudad Viejo. This film brings to life the newspaper stories of the underworld that co-exists with the reality of most Montevideans--the drugs, the sexuality, the prostitution, the terrorists...the violence.

232. La vieja música, Mario Camus et al., 1 videocassette (ca. 104 min.), Montevideo Uruguay, 1919.
     Notes: Performer Note: Federico Luppi, Charo Lopez, Francisco Rabal, Asumpta Serna.
     Abstract: The new coach of the basketball team of Lugo arrives from Argentina. He really knows nothing about training a basketball team so he keeps the previous coach on and in the meantime tries to learn from videos and books, but his real reason for coming to Spain was to find out about an old lost love.

233. Les visiteurs du soir Los visitantes de la noche, André Lautrec et al., 1 videocassette (120 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Arletty, Marie Déa, Fernand Ledoux, Alain Cuny.
     Abstract: Set in the Middle Ages, this is a romantic fantasy based on a French legend. The devil sends two envoys to intervene in the betrothal of the count and lady Anne, and since the pair were not truly in love, the engagement evaporates. However, the two emissaries do succumb to love.

234. La viuda de Montiel, Miguel Littín et al., 1 videocassette (105 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 199-.
     Notes: Performer Note: Geraldine Chaplin, Nelson Villagra, Katy Jurado, Ernesto Gómez Cruz.

235. Voces para una historia, Mario Jacob et al., 1 videocassette (43 min.), Montevideo, Uruguay, 1987.
     Abstract: Documentary about a group of women in rural Uruguay who form a knitting cooperative, told in their own words.

236. La vuelta al nido, Leopoldo Torres Ríos and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.

237. Yo quiero ser Bataclana, Manuel Romero and Videograma S.R.L, 1 videocassette, Montevideo, 1919.

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