Post Mortem Trailer (2011)

Cast: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Jaime Vadell, Marcelo Alonso, Antonia Zegers

Description: Mario (Alfredo Castro, Tony Manero) is an unassuming state employee who transcribes notes during autopsies. Furtive and lonely, he becomes obsessed with his neighbor, the dance hall girl Nancy (Antonia Zegers), who is involved with a group of left-wing activists. With the coup, and the death of President Salvador Allende, Nancy's friends are hunted down, and Mario's hospital becomes clogged with the bodies of dissenters. Soon the violence filters into Mario's psyche, and he begins to break down, much like his country.

Genre: Drama

Studio: Kino Lorber

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Release Dates:

Country	Release Type	Date
France	Theatrical Wide Release	2/16/2011
United States	DVD/Blu-ray Release	8/21/2012
United States	Theatrical Limited Release	4/11/2012

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04/12/2012 @ 12:01 AM

Film: Movie Review: Post Mortem

The political becomes personal in Pablo Larrain’s deadpan dark comedy Post Mortem , which follows a sad-sack Santiago bureaucrat as he stumbles through 1973, the year Chile fell under military control. Alfredo Castro (who starred as the murderous Saturday Night Fever fan in Larrain’s 2008 film, Tony Manero ) plays a morgue clerk who spends his days filing reports on the corpses that pass across the doctors’ autopsy tables—a job that becomes more demanding once the coup really starts to rage. Meanwhile, Castro develops a pathetic relationship with his neighbor (Antonia Zegers), an emaciated dancer who toys with Castro ...

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04/10/2012 @ 10:36 PM

Movie Review: ‘Post Mortem,’ Directed by Pablo Larraín and Set in Chile

Pablo Larraín’s “Post Mortem” observes the political turmoil in Chile, from the perspective of a morgue worker, after the 1973 military coup that overthrew the Allende government.

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