Burnt Money (2000) on Netflix
In 1965 Buenos Aires, El Nene and Ángel meet at a subway station and become lovers. Known as the twins, they join a plan to rob an armored truck.
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Plot summary
Argentina, 1965. El Nene, a petty thief, and Ángel, a drifter, cross paths in the restroom of a Buenos Aires subway station and are inseparable from then on. People know them as the twins; in truth they are lovers and partners in crime, and their relationship is already turning difficult. Their loyalty to each other is tested when they agree to a plan for holding up an armored truck with veteran gangsters: El Cuervo, a sedative addict carrying on an affair with Vivi; Fontana, the boss; and Nando, an elderly lawyer who makes the connections for the crime. Ángel hears voices and appears to suffer from a mild form of schizophrenia.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Burnt Money (2000)
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SPOILER
In the real 1965 Montevideo siege, both El Nene and Dorda, the model for Angel, died; a police officer interviewed for a documentary said the two bodies were found holding hands but were separated before the official police photographs were taken. Unlike the film, the real Cuervo, Mereles, was only mortally wounded and did not die during the siege.- The dates shown at the film's end, 28 September to 4 November 1965, are not quite accurate: the final attack on the fugitives' Montevideo hiding place came on Saturday 6 November 1965. Three days earlier they had stolen a car and provoked a shootout with Uruguayan police beside Montevideo's TV canal 8, later the only channel to carry live coverage of the siege.
- The real El Nene, whose name was Brignone, was the educated son of a judge and said in an interview that he never knew what would happen with the money; he called Dorda, renamed Angel in the film, the most good-natured of the robbers, while Malito, the film's Fontana, evoked fear.
SPOILER
The three robbers were buried anonymously in the Northern Cemetery of Montevideo at 8am on Wednesday, 10 November 1965. Only El Nene's body was claimed by his family and taken back to Argentina.- In February 1966, Malito, the real-life Fontana of the film, was seen in Flores, a Buenos Aires neighborhood, and shot dead by police there.
