Crane World
| Crane World | |
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Italian theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Pablo Trapero |
| Written by | Pablo Trapero |
| Produced by | Lita Stantic Pablo Trapero |
| Starring | Luis Margani Adriana Aizemberg Daniel Valenzuela |
| Cinematography | Cobi Migliora |
| Edited by | Nicolás Goldbart |
| Music by | Francisco Canaro |
| Distributed by | Cinema Tropical INCAA Lita Stantic Producciones |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
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.