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Average Rating
6.6
Based on 5 votes
Release Status
Released
07 Mar 2001
Runtime
01:55
115 minutes
Budget
$9,500,000
in USD

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

In El Idilio, a village on the banks of a river in the Amazon rainforest, Antonio Bolívar, known to everyone as "The Old Man," lives a recluse. One day, Antonio begins reading the romance novels that the traveling dentist Rubicondo Loachamin brings him to pass the time. He shares this occupation with a beautiful local girl, a waitress and prostitute, named Josefina, with whom he ends up falling in love. But all does not go smoothly when Antonio is forced to go on a hunting trip.

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