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Plata quemada (English: Burnt Money) (2000) is an Argentine, French, Spanish, and Uruguayan film directed by Marcelo Pieyro, and written by Pieyro and Marcelo Figueras.[1]<br />
The film won, among other awards, the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film in 2001.<br />
The picture stars Eduardo Noriega, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pablo Echarri, Leticia Bredice, Ricardo Bartis, Hctor Alterio, and others. It is based on Ricardo Piglia's 1997 Planeta prize-winning novel of the same name (but translated into English as Burnt Money) that was inspired by a true story of a famous bank robbery in Buenos Aires in 1965. The film, a recreation of their now-legendary story, is an action thriller of the exploits and red-hot passion of two thugs.<br />
The work was partly funded by INCAA.<br />
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