Bad Day to Go Fishing

Bad Day to Go Fishing original title, Mal da Para Pescar is a SpanishUruguayan film directed by lvaro Brechner and released in 2009. The film stars Gary Piquer, Jouko Ahola, Antonella Costa and Cesar Troncoso. It was screened as part of the official selection of the Critics Week at 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

Jacob van Oppen, an East German who is the former strongest man on earth, and his manager Orsini, a scrawny yet dapper businessman who calls himself the Prince, make a good living by travelling around small South American towns and organizing wrestling exhibitions in rundown theaters. Jacob van Oppen is an uncontrollable titan of impressive dimensions who can only be appeased by the soft soothing melody of Lili Marleen. Once this oddball pair disembark at the village of Santa Maria in an unspecified country, business really kicks off the local newspaper is immediately gungho on sponsoring the fight, helping hands placard posters announcing the big event and putting an open call for a worthy adversary. Ever so resourceful, Orsini knows how to find the right combatant, but fishing in Santa Maria could lead to a bigger catch than hed hoped for... Although the cunning editor of the local newspaper is convinced to have sniffed out Orsinis secret, he very well might be on a false trackThe film won several international awards and has participated in many prestigious film festivals such as 26th Warsaw International Film Festival Best Film Free Spirit Comp., Montreal World Film Festival, Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival Best Film Opera Prima, Mar del Plata Film Festival Best Actor, Moscow International Film Festival, Shanghai International Film Festival, Austin Best Film amp Audience Award, Brooklyn Best Director, Sofia International Film Festival Best Film Fipresci, So Paulo, Busan International Film Festival and Palm Springs International Film Festival. ........

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