Jaguar (1986)

Ягуар

Cadets at a Latin American military school live by cruelty and secrecy, until one death forces them to choose.

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Year
1986
Director
Sebastián Alarcón
Starring
Sergei Veksler, Vsevolod Shilovsky, Sergei Gazarov, Artyom Kaminsky
Genre
Drama
Running time
1 h 28 min
Based on
The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
Language
Russian, English subtitles
Studio
Mosfilm

About the film

At a military academy, the cadets have their own brutal code, ruled by the toughest of them, nicknamed Jaguar. Exams are stolen, the weak are bullied and nobody informs.

When a cadet dies on an exercise, one of his comrades decides to tell the truth, and discovers that the officers want the story buried as much as the cadets do.

A Soviet film made by the Chilean exile director Sebastián Alarcón.

Did you know?

  • It is based on Mario Vargas Llosa's first novel, The Time of the Hero.
  • Director Sebastián Alarcón was a Chilean who worked in the USSR after the 1973 coup.

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