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Margarita Musto

Margarita Musto

Acting

Biography

Margarita Musto (born 16 November 1955) is a Uruguayan actress, theater director, translator, teacher, and general and artistic director of the Comedia Nacional. She graduated in 1982 from the Margarita Xirgu Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art (EMAD). In 1993 she played the leading role in La historia casi verdadera de Pepita la Pistolera, for which she received awards at the Guadalajara International Film Festival and the 12th Cinematographic Festival of Uruguay.

Known For

Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
8.1

The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who managed to survive for 72 days, at an altitude of almost 4,000 meters, in the heart of the Andes Mountains, after their plane, en route to Chile, crashed there on October 13, 1972.

Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains

2007
Retrato de mujer con hombre al fondo
4.0

Cristina is a 35-year-old woman who has life figured out: she has a job she loves and a beautiful house. However, her life begins to change when she starts feeling attracted to one of her clients.

Retrato de mujer con hombre al fondo

1997
Breadcrumbs
4.9

When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to reconcile with her son and be able to live peacefully as a mother and a grandmother.

Breadcrumbs

2016
Polvo nuestro que estas en los cielos
5.7

Aurelio Saravia is a powerful politician who holds office in Uruguay in the mid-1960's. When Aurelio's mistress kills herself, he adopts their illegitimate daughter Masangeles despite the stern objections of his wife Aurora. Masangeles finds herself growing up in a home ruled by a corrupt and self-centered tyrant and his manic colleagues while Uruguay teeters on the brink of civil war as bands of revolutionaries battle government militias. When she turns fourteen, Masangeles discovers a secret passageway in their home that leads to sanctuary in a nearby church which also serves as a storehouse for guns and ill-gotten cash. Teenage Masangeles falls in love with Santiago, her stepbrother who has joined the rebels fighting against the state, and she persuades him to take her virginity.

Polvo nuestro que estas en los cielos

2008
Pepita the Holster
6.0

A mother struggles to raise her daughter all by herself, and due to the economic difficulties decides to rob multiple finance houses, fooling her victims with the handle of her umbrella that she make them think is a real revolver.

Pepita the Holster

1993
Southern Star
8.0

Gregorio is a Tupamaro exiled in Spain who has returned to Uruguay. He has not yet revealed his secret: on the site where today he intends to build a house for his family there are buried weapons and ammunition from his guerrilla past.

Southern Star

2002
La memoria de Blas Quadra
7.0

Blas Quadra, a writer who was part of the Latin American boom of the '60s, now lives in Uruguay, blind and in seclusion while his son Gabriel is quite successful as a screenwriter in Spain. But one reporter found many similarities in the scripts of Gabriel and his father's work.

La memoria de Blas Quadra

2000
¿Cómo te clasifico?
N/A

It is Nelson's first day at work. He has to conduct a survey at Mirna's house, a deprived shack in the middle of a garbage dump. But Mirna has no specific answers to any of the questions in the form.

¿Cómo te clasifico?

2011