The Honorary Consul (1983) on Netflix
R19831h 44mDramaRomanceThriller
Dr. Eduardo Plarr treats Charley Fortnum, the alcoholic honorary British consul, and begins an affair with Clara, his wife. Leon wants Plarr's help abducting a visiting American ambassador.
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Plot summary
In Corrientes, in northeast Argentina, Dr. Eduardo Plarr lives across the river from the Paraguay he fled as a boy, after his father, a dissident, was arrested and disappeared. He attends Charley Fortnum, the hard-drinking honorary British consul, and knows Colonel Perez, the local police chief. Sent to examine Fortnum's wife, Clara, Plarr recognizes her as a girl who worked at the town brothel, and they begin an affair. Leon, an old Paraguayan school friend who left the priesthood to marry and now works with militants, comes to Plarr's surgery with another activist, Aquino. They want his help seizing the American ambassador on his coming visit and trading him for political prisoners in Paraguay, among them Plarr's father. Plarr gives them the itinerary he obtains from Fortnum, and morphine.
Cast
- Eric Valdezas Pablo
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Honorary Consul (1983)
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- The novelist Graham Greene disowned this 1983 adaptation of his book The Honorary Consul, saying he did not want to see Richard Gere undressing and calling Gere "completely and utterly miscast".
- Norma Heyman, the film's producer, became the first British woman to produce a solo independent feature film with The Honorary Consul.
