Elsa y Fred

Infobox Film
name = Elsa y Fred


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director = Marcos Carnevale
producer = Marcos Carnevale
Carlos Andrada
José Antonio Félez
writer = Marcos Carnevale
Marcela Guerty
Lily Ann Martin
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starring = Manuel Alexandre
China Zorrilla
Federico Luppi
music = Lito Vitale
cinematography = Juan Carlos Gómez
editing = Nacho Ruiz Capillas
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released = 2005
runtime = 108 minutes
country = ARG
ESP
language = Spanish
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imdb_id = 0453047

"Elsa y Fred" is a 2005 Spanish-Argentine film co-production directed by Marcos Carnevale and starring Manuel Alexandre, China Zorrilla and Federico Luppi.

Synopsis

Alfredo "Fred" is an old, recent widower who has led a quiet and repressed life and retires to an apartment in Madrid. Elsa is an old Argentine lady who happens to be his neighbor. As they fall in love, the two become absorbed with helping out each other in their old age: the dubious Elsa throws herself and Fred into situations the widower would have disapproved of earlier in life and makes him "live life and not death"; whereas Fred decides to grant Elsa's lifelong wish of going to Rome and performing an imitation of Fellini's famous scene starring Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni under the Fontana di Trevi in "La dolce vita".

After Elsa and Fred visit Rome, Fred is shown visiting Elsa's tomb, as she has passed away. He looks at her birthdate and realizes that she lied about how old she was, in which he calls her a "mentirosa" (Spanish for "liar") jokingly, for she frequently lied to him about her life.

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