By the Fire
5.9
Daniel and Alejandra, a working class couple in their late 30s, move to the countryside near the Andes Mountains to begin the next chapter of their life together. Alejandra is ill, and Daniel looks after her, his soul mate. He scratches out a living doing farm work, while dreaming of buying his own plot of land. Over the course of a year, director Alejandro Fernández Almendras captures a life of love and frustration as Alejandra’s condition worsens, and Daniel can do nothing but keep on struggling.
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Cast
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Daniel Muñoz
Daniel
Known for
La jauría
Land and Freedom
Alejandra Yañez
Alejandra
Also in
To Kill a Man
Our Lady of San Juan, Four Centuries of Miracles
Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Inti Briones
Eduardo Villalobos
Daniel Candia
Peón
Also in
To Kill a Man
Tira
Mauricio López
Tichi Lobos
Sussy
Also in
Saint Teresa of the Andes
Revenge
Pablo Pinochet
Clemira Aguayo
Alejandra's Mother
Also in
Huacho
Antonio Guajardo
Alejandra's Father
Also in
Along Came the Rain
Camilo Muñoz
Daniel's Son
Also in
The Memory of Water
Karadima Forest
Alejandro Fernández Almendras Director · Inti Briones Cinematographer Jerónimo Rodríguez Editor
United States release April 21, 2012 · Produced in Chile, Germany · Production Pandora Filmproduktion
Production
El Remanso
Production
Pandora Filmproduktion
Production
Chile · Germany
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Languages
Original title
Sentados frente al fuego
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Argentina · April 12, 2012
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
United States · April 21, 2012
San Francisco International Film Festival
Chile
August 22, 2013 · Theatrical
France
August 22, 2012 · Theatrical
Spain
January 8, 2021 · Digital · VOD
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