Crane World

Crane World
Italian theatrical release poster
Directed byPablo Trapero
Written byPablo Trapero
Produced byLita Stantic
Pablo Trapero
StarringLuis Margani
Adriana Aizemberg
Daniel Valenzuela
CinematographyCobi Migliora
Edited byNicolás Goldbart
Music byFrancisco Canaro
Distributed byCinema Tropical
INCAA
Lita Stantic Producciones
Release date
  • June 17, 1999 (1999-06-17) (Argentina)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

Crane World (Spanish: Mundo grúa) is a 1999 Argentine comedy-drama film written and directed by Pablo Trapero. The film was produced by Lita Stantic and Pablo Trapero. It features Luis Margani, Adriana Aizemberg, Daniel Valenzuela, among others.

The movie was partly funded by Argentina's INCAA as well as by the Dutch Hubert Bals Fund.

The picture is about working class life in Argentina that's gritty (filmed in sepia, black and white). The film follows the fortunes in the life of Rulo, an unemployed suburban man, who tries to earn a living as a crane operator in Buenos Aires.

In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 9th position. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 39th position.