A Useful Life
“A Tale of Cinema”
A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life as the cinema he's worked at for over 25 years faces closure.
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Cast
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Jorge Jellinek
Jorge
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Manuel Martinez Carril
Martínez
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Bregman, el siguiente
Paola Venditto
Paola
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Milonga
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Gonzalo Delgado
Director
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Belmonte
Severina
Felipe Arocena
Iriarte Hijo
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Victoria Novic
Estudiante (as Victoria Novick)
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Pablo Stoll
Moviegoer
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Federico Veiroj Director · Gonzalo Delgado Writer Inés Bortagaray Writer
Budget $350K · First release August 13, 2010 · Produced in Spain, Uruguay
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Budget
$350,000
Production
Versátil Cinema
Production
Mediapro
Production
Cinekdoque
Production
Spain · Uruguay
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Languages
Original title
La vida útil
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Uruguay · August 13, 2010
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Brazil
December 7, 2012 · Theatrical
September 29, 2021 · Premiere · CineBH - Mostra Internacional de Cinema de Belo Horizonte
France
March 28, 2012 · Theatrical
Japan
July 16, 2016 · Digital
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