Alfonso Tort
Acting
Biography
Alfonso Tort (Montevideo, 1978) is a Uruguayan actor who started his career with 25 Watts (2001), and graduated from the Municipal School of Dramatic Art of Uruguay the same year.
Place of Birth: Montevideo, Uruguay
Known For
El casero
Marcela and her brother Claudio travel to the old family home in Villa Carlos Paz, with a project to turn it into a boutique hotel. Marcela is a prestigious architect, who returns to the country after separating from her American husband. Claudio, actor and bohemian, seeks inspiration to write a work that will finally take him out of anonymity. While the brothers wait for the investors to arrive, they notice that in their absence, the old landlord Ramón - who raised them since they were children - has taken over the house and rents it out for different activities. From this crossroads, The Landlord delves into the ties, frustrations and the need to make peace with the past.
A Twelve-Year Night
Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
The Bubble
Daniela travels with her husband and children to help her sick father who lives isolated in a ranch. An energy crisis breaks out and the whole country falls into a ferocious anarchy. Fleeing abroad seems to be the only way out, and Daniela is determined to escape - without imagining that an unsuspected deceit is hidden behind.
Whisky
When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.
Homecoming Ghost
Demosthenes reappears in his village where he is known as "Ghost", just for the end of the year holidays, with no plans or goals. Luis Miguel, his old friend, gives him a job, and asks him to look for a pig to be slaughtered at the end of that week, in which friendship turns into a working relationship.
25 Watts
24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo. Three teenage guys try to figure out what they're supposed to be doing with their lives in this drama from Uruguay that puts the emphasis on character over narrative.
Bad Day to Go Fishing
Jacob van Oppen, the former strongest man on earth, and his manager Orsini, who calls himself "the Prince", make a good living by traveling around small South American towns and organizing wrestling exhibitions. Arriving in Santa Maria, they are met with uncommon enthusiasm, the local newspaper wants to sponsor the fight, helping hands placard the town with posters, and an open call is made 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 he'd hoped for.
Straight to VHS
Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about Manuel Lamas, its unknown creator. Until now.
Chronicle of an Escape
The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.
The Silence of the Sky
After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.
Filmography
as Bruno
as Claudio
as Hernán
as Pablo
as Jorge
as Javier
as Ramiro
as Yañez
as Film Director
as Fantasma
as Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro
as Paramédico
as Belvedere Client
as El Negro Iono
as Ronco
as Sergio Astier
as Jorge
as Seba