| | |  | ARGENTINA | Home » » Blessed By Fire | | | | | | | Description: | | Acclaimed director Tristán Bauer presents the harrowing story of a band of Argentinean soldiers sent to fight an un-winnable war and left to bear the brutal scars of the past. After learning of a friend’s attempted suicide, a journalist goes back to relive his experiences in the Falklands. | | | Features: | |
• The Falklands War left an indelible impression on the Argentinean journalist at the center of BLESSED BY FIRE. Spurred by the attempted suicide of a friend, the journalist reruns to the Falklands and relives the experience once more. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN Rating: NR Age: 741952310495 UPC: 741952310495 Manufacturer No: KLF-DV3104
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Gastón Pauls, Pablo Riva, César Albarracín, Hugo Carrizo, Virginia Innocenti | | Director:
| Tristán Bauer | | Format:
| Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| English, Spanish | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Koch Lorber Films | | Run Time:
| 100 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| July 17, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 7 reviews |
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 An intense, fascinating look at the Falklands war, from the Argentinean soldier's POVNov 15, 2011
By K. Gordon
I fall between those who see this as a near masterpiece, and
those who dismiss it as overly familiar and done better before.
An intense, fascinating look at the Falklands war, from the Argentinean
soldier's POV, it begins with the attempted suicide of an ex-solider,
which throws his war-time buddy into remembrances of the hell these men
endured.
While the war may have seemed a silly little flare up about a bunch of
rocks to most of the world, to the Argentinean draftees who lost their
lives their limbs and their sanity in a futile, under equipped attempt
to hold off a wildly more powerful British force was as real to them as
Vietnam or Iraq or the coast of Normandy was to the men who suffered
and died there.
Indeed, through this film's eyes it was worse, because it was an
absolutely pointless and quickly forgotten war, drummed up by the
generals back home as a nationalistic exercise to take the country's
mind off its faltering economy,
And then, in the ultimate ignominy, the men are sworn to silence about
their defeat (and, presumably, abusive treatment by their own
officers).
Any war where more of the soldiers die of suicide in the years after
than on the battlefield itself is indeed worth examining.
The film succeeds in capturing the horror, confusion, and fear,
although it doesn't quite get under the skins of the characters enough
to make us understand on a visceral level. I was never bored, but
nowhere near as deeply moved as I wish I had been.
--mild spoiler ahead--
Still, I would have rated this higher except for a stumble in the very
last seconds of the film, where suddenly a burst of sentimentality and
latent nationalism in the form respectively of a pop song, and a last
screen graphic made me question if I had been giving the film too much
credit for having an enlightened point of view.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 War `s tragic nostalgia!Oct 29, 2006
By Hiram Gomez Pardo
A survivor from that brutal War in Argentina against UK, best known as Malvins War in order to restore the domain in 1982. A teenager by then, is now a man of 42 who reminds those awful experiences with another survivor and a missed friend, killed in action.
A realist drama that surely will shock
The OTHER side of the Falklands fightMay 14, 2012
By Anthony Prudori
Very much worth watching for the part of the fight Anglophone countries don't hear about.
Gritty look and feel to how the troops were living in the field. The brutality of some of the commanders with some of the conscripts is also revealing, and a reminder of how you can't beat an army into success.
A great historical eventNov 27, 2010
By Henrik Voskanian
A must see to understand what these poor Arjentinian soldiers went through during this island war.
They were closer to this island then the british, but sure the brits were more orgenized and supplied better.
The Other Side of the Falklands WarMar 11, 2010
By Richard Tavarez
Blessed By Fire was much more than I expected, what I thought was going to be an overglorified propaganda film turned out to be one on the best films I've seen. Being a former U.S. Marine, I'm not one enjoys your basic "shoot'em up" war is nothing to make light of. Blessed By Fire is one of those special films that shows war and its effect on those who go through it, as well as a tragic and horrible waste of young lives. There is no real way to show war as it really is, but if you're looking for a movie with the effects and realism of battle, this is the one for you. Not a film for just the "Lovers" of War Movies, but a film that shows that in war there is no glory only survivors
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