The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

In El Idilio, a village on the banks of a river in the Amazon rainforest, Antonio Bolívar, known to everyone as "The Old Man," lives a recluse. One day, Antonio begins reading the romance novels that the traveling dentist Rubicondo Loachamin brings him to pass the time. He shares this occupation with a beautiful local girl, a waitress and prostitute, named Josefina, with whom he ends up falling in love. But all does not go smoothly when Antonio is forced to go on a hunting trip.

• Rolf de HeerDirector
• Graham TardifOriginal Music Composer
• Fernando SanchoOriginal Music Composer
• Rolf de HeerScreenplay
• Claude CohenWriter

• Richard DreyfussAntonio Bolivar
• Timothy SpallLuis Agalla
• Hugo WeavingRubicondo
• Cathy TysonJosefina
• Victor BottenbleyNushino
• Guillermo ToledoOnecen
• Fede CeladaJuan
• Luis HostalotManuel
• Behi Djanati AtaiDolores
• Josse De PauwThe Man Who Bets
• Jerome EhlersGringo
• Jim van der WoudeThe Patient