The Honorary Consul [DVD]

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Another person the doctor meets is Clara (Elpidia Carrillo), whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife. Now a practicing doctor in a small Argentinian city, Plarr is approached by an old friend who tells him he's working with the Paraguayan underground and a disgraced British counsel (Michael Caine) on a plan to kidnap an ambassador and hold him for ransom in exchange for the release of Parr's father and several other prisoners. The movie was filmed on location in Veracruz, Mexico and Mexico City, and at the Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England. Read all During the Dirty War, a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces.

Fortnum overhears Plarr telling Leon of his adultery with Clara and saying that he, not Fortnum, is the father of the child that Clara is expecting.

So many times his mother had used the word when he was a child; it was like the threat of an armed robber.

The Honorary Consul is a 1983 British drama film directed by John Mackenzie and starring Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins and Elpidia Carrillo. As a boy, he was forced to flee his native Paraguay after the arrest and subsequent disappearance of his father, a dissident. Visiting the town brothel with Saavedra, Plarr is attracted to a girl, Clara, but she is taken by another man. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In the final analysis, though it starts nobly, the movie does not accomplish what it set out to do: i.The kidnappers' first attempt to intercept the cars fails when they get held up by a military convoy. Plarr makes the acquaintance of the dissolute and heavy-drinking Charley Fortnum, the honorary British consul.