Portrait of My Father
Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe was just eight years old when his father’s body was found on a beach.His mother, a psychiatrist, decided an autopsy was unnecessary, even though his father had been depressed and had psychiatric medication among his belongings.Thirty years later, the filmmaker tries to find out what happened, who his father was and how his mother arrived at her decision.
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Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe was just eight years old when his father’s body was found on a beach. His mother, a psychiatrist, decided an autopsy was unnecessary, even though his father had been depressed and had psychiatric medication among his belongings. Thirty years later, the filmmaker tries to find out what happened, who his father was and how his mother arrived at her decision.
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- Release date
- Nov 9, 2022
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- 1h 39m
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- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Uruguay
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