Birthday
Mercedes is an exhausted woman who faces the non-return of her only son, after the end of the Chaco War in 1935.A soldier returns to the same town looking for his girlfriend, and ends up accompanying this woman, discovering in turn the reason for her suffering.
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Mercedes is an exhausted woman who faces the non-return of her only son, after the end of the Chaco War in 1935. A soldier returns to the same town looking for his girlfriend, and ends up accompanying this woman, discovering in turn the reason for her suffering.
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- Budget
- $1,000
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- Release date
- Dec 11, 2020
- Runtime
- 0h 0m
- MPAA rating
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- Language
- Spanish, Guarani
- Country
- Paraguay
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