Post Mortem (2012)

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• Project Phase: Completed
• Release Date: 2012-04-11 - NY and/or LA
• Distributor(s): Kino Lorber
• Film Genre(s): Dark Comedy
• Country: Chile
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SYNOPSIS

Alfredo Castro plays Mario, 55, works in a morgue typing autopsy reports. In the midst of the 1973 Chilean coup, he fantasizes about his neighbor, a cabaret dancer, Nancy, who mysteriously disappears on September the 11th. After a violent Army raid on her family's home, he hears about the arrest of her brother and father, a prominent Communist and Salvador Allende supporter. Troubled and madly passionate over the loss of his would-be lover, Mario begins his frantic search for Nancy.

Allende's government has been overthrown and people are dying in the streets. The Army seizes the morgue and numerous corpses pile up, but Mario can't get his mind off of Nancy. He carries out his job, thinking he might find her among the dead, in the silent hope that she is alive in a hospital somewhere. Mario walks through the streets like a ghost and one night, to his great relief, he discovers Nancy hiding in the attic of her home. He is delighted, feeds her, and fear prevents her from leaving her hideout. Then, from the military officer now in charge of the morgue, he receives an unexpected order - to go to the Military Hospital and write the autopsy report on an extraordinary corpse ...

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