In This Tricky Life

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In This Tricky Life
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SpanishEn la puta vida
Directed by Beatriz Flores Silva
Screenplay by
  • Beatriz Flores Silva
  • János Kovácsi
Produced by
  • Beatriz Flores Silva
  • Hubert Toint
  • Stefan Schmitz
Starring
  • Mariana Santángelo
  • Silvestre
  • Josep Linuesa
CinematographyFrancisco Gozón
Edited by
Music byCarlos Da Silveira
Production
companies
  • BFS Producciones
  • Saga Film
  • Avalon Productions
  • ICAIC
Release date
  • July 4, 2001 (2001-07-04)
Running time
103 minutes
Countries
  • Uruguay
  • Belgium
  • Spain
  • Cuba
LanguageSpanish

In This Tricky Life (Spanish: En la puta vida) is a 2001 film directed by Beatriz Flores Silva. It was Uruguay's submission to the 74th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. [1] [2] The film was awarded the 'Golden Columbus' at the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival. [3] An international co-production among companies from Uruguay, Belgium, Spain and Cuba, [3] the film was produced by BFS Producciones, Saga Film, Avalon Productions and ICAIC. [4]

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It is based on the novel El huevo de la serpiente by journalist María Urruzola, whose investigations exposed an Uruguayan sex trafficking network in 1992. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "51 Countries In Race For Oscar". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2001-11-19. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-12.
  2. ↑ "74th Academy Awards - Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  3. 1 2 Siles, Luis Eduardo (25 November 2001). "'En la puta vida', una película sobre la prostitución de una inmigrante, gana el Colón de Oro de Huelva". El País .
  4. ↑ Radakovich, Rosario (2015). "Consumo cinematográfico en Uruguay. Sobre gustos y valoración social del cine nacional". Versión. Estudios de Comunicación y Política (36): 112.
  5. ↑ Deveny, Thomas G. (2012). Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema. Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 326. ISBN   9780810885042 . Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Rodríguez B., Rodrigo (2006). Mentor cinematográfico. Editorial UCR. p. 38. ISBN   9968-936-81-2.
  7. ↑ isliada (2024-10-08). "Poemas de Martha Gularte: Poetisas Uruguayas". Isliada - Literatura Cubana (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-10-26.


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