Adios Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis, with the peso plunging deeper and deeper. Julio Fǎrber, the charismatic bandoneon player of the “Vecinos de Pompeya”, a five-piece working-class tango band, is trying to keep his head above water, but every month he is earning less and less from their gigs as well as from the traditional shoe shop he inherited from his father. At the very moment he takes the decision to leave his beloved Buenos Aires forever, it clearly appears that life is conspiring against him: overnight the government freezes all bank accounts in the whole country, preventing Julio from purchasing the flight tickets and sparking violent protests throughout the town. And Mariela, a witty young woman and feisty cab driver, bumps into his car at full speed, damaging Julio's last possession of value before stealing his heart...
German Kral
German Kral was born in Buenos Aires in 1968. In 1991, he moved to Germany to study film. He graduated from the Munich Film School and has worked as a film writer and director ever since.
Kral first worked with Wim Wenders between 1993 and 1996 on the film “A Trick of the Light”. His diploma film “Images of the Absence” was nominated for the German Grimme Prize in 2001 and awarded First Prize at the Yamagata Film Festival in Japan in 1999 and the Young Bavarian Documentary Film Award in 2000. Kral's film, "Our Last Tango" (2015), had its World Premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. lt is a German-Argentine coproduction, executive produced by Wim Wenders. It won several awards, including The Bavarian Film Award for Best Photography, as well as the Audience Award at both the Washington DC Film Festival and the Bolzano Film Festival in Bozen, Italy.
Kral's feature film screenplay “Adios Buenos Aires” received a Special Mention at the annual Tankred Dorst Screenplay Awards in Munich and was selected for the 26th European Screenwriting Workshop in Cannes.
