Ashes of Paradise
Ashes of Paradise Spanish Cenizas del Paraso is a 1997 Argentine film directed by Marcelo Pieyro. It tells in flashbacks how the untroubled private happiness of a family a judge and his three grownup sons crumbles between loyalty and betrayal, blind trust and suspicions.
The film opens with the fall of the respected judge Costa Makantasis Hctor Alterio from the Federal Courthouse. Next, his oldest son Pablo Leonardo Sbaraglia is seen dragging the body of young and beautiful Ana Muro Leticia Brdice through the house in which he lives with his two younger brothers.Two different judges begin to investigate the two deaths. It is soon assumed that Costa Makantasis committed suicide. The case of Ana Muro, however, investigated by Beatriz Teller Cecilia Roth, is complicated by the fact that all three sons confess the murder, each claiming that he acted alone and that the other two are innocent and really some evidence speaks against each one of them. In addition, they urge Teller to believe that their father was murdered and that his case also requires investigation. Teller, on the other hand, is pressured by her superiors to hand over the case of the three brothers to the judge assigned to Costa Makantasis apparent suicide. Fearing that a dirty truth behind the supposed suicide shall be covered up, she risks her career by rejecting to give up her case. ........
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