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BURNING PATIENCE

Ardiente paciencia

Directed by Antonio Skármeta
Chile, West Germany, 1983
Drama, Romance
  • 8080 minutes

Synopsis

Ailing Communist poet Pablo Neruda schools a lovelorn illiterate postman in the language of love as Chile is torn to pieces in the early Seventies.

Synopsis

Ailing Communist poet Pablo Neruda schools a lovelorn illiterate postman in the language of love as Chile is torn to pieces in the early Seventies.