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Watch El Father Plays Himself (2020) Online

  • 9/10
  • RUNTIME: 1h 45m
  • COUNTRIES: Italy,United Kingdom,United States of America,Venezuela
  • Subtitles: Español

A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys. Read More

Watch El Father Plays Himself online. Featuring Jorge Thielen Armand and Jorge Thielen Hedderich, El Father Plays Himself is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 9. It is available for streaming online in the USA on 2 services such as GuideDoc and DocAlliance Films. The movie was filmed in Italy and was released on 2020. El Father Plays Himself was directed by Jorge Thielen Armand,Mo Scarpelli. Read Less