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¿Quién inició el incendio?

The night of July 18th 1896 a small group of people attended the first film projection in Buenos Aires. This is the story of three of them, who will go on to become the pioneers of south-american cinema, not without being involved in a couple scandals including a duel, a mysterious disappearance and the burning of a lab in the centric area of the city. Archival footage meets historical fact and cinematic recreation in a filmic exercise that is not interested in finding reality in fiction but quite the opposite: finding fiction in reality.

Top Cast

  • Sofía Siniscalco

    Sofía Siniscalco

    Alicia Dreyfuss

  • Nicolas Caraballo

    Nicolas Caraballo

    Max Glucksmann

  • Manuel Koolen

    Manuel Koolen

    Eugenio Py

  • Nicolas Stein

    Nicolas Stein

    Narrador

Overview

The night of July 18th 1896 a small group of people attended the first film projection in Buenos Aires. This is the story of three of them, who will go on to become the pioneers of south-american cinema, not without being involved in a couple scandals including a duel, a mysterious disappearance and the burning of a lab in the centric area of the city. Archival footage meets historical fact and cinematic recreation in a filmic exercise that is not interested in finding reality in fiction but quite the opposite: finding fiction in reality.

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