The Distinguished Citizen

The Distinguished Citizen
Film poster
El ciudadano ilustre
Directed byGastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn
Written byAndrés Duprat
StarringOscar Martínez
CinematographyGastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn
Music byToni M. Mir
Production
companies
  • Aleph Media
  • Televisión Abierta
  • Magma Cine
  • A Contracorriente Films
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 4 September 2016 (2016-09-04) (Venice)
  • 8 September 2016 (2016-09-08) (Argentine)
Running time
118 minutes
CountriesArgentina
Spain
LanguageSpanish
Budget$1.7 million
Box office$3.6 million

The Distinguished Citizen (Spanish: El ciudadano ilustre) is a 2016 Argentine-Spanish comedy-drama film directed by Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. At Venice Oscar Martínez won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. It was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. It won Best Ibero-American Film at the 4th Platino Awards.