Alias 'La Gringa' is a 1991 Peruvian drama film directed by Alberto Durant.[1][2] The film was selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[3] El Frontón is the main setting for the film.[4]

Alias 'La Gringa'
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Directed byAlberto Durant
Written byAlberto Durant
StarringGermán González
Release date
  • 19 September 1991 (1991-09-19)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryPeru
LanguageSpanish

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  1. ^ "Alias 'La Gringa'". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2016. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Alias 'La Gringa'". Film Affinity. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  3. ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  4. ^ James Higgins -Lima: A Cultural and Literary History - Page 193 1902669983 2005 El Fronton is the main setting for Alberto Durant's Alias "La Gringa" (1991), a film evoking the contradictions of Peruvian society by showing common criminals and Shining Path militants sharing the same space. Though founded in 1537, Callao is a relatively modern town, as in 1746 it was destroyed by a massive earthquake and a huge tidal wave which wiped out most of its population. So great was the wave that it is said to have reached as far as the eighteenth-century church of ..
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