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- The Dancer Upstairs is a 1995 novel by Nicholas Shakespeare. It is based on the Maoist insurgency of the 1980s in Peru, and tells the story of Agustin Rejas, a police Lieutenant (later promoted to Captain), hunting a terrorist based on Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path.
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The Dancer Upstairs is a 2002 Spanish-American crime thriller film produced and directed by John Malkovich (in his directorial debut), and starring Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto and Laura Morante. The film is an adaptation of the 1995 novel The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare, who also wrote the screenplay.
Nov 20, 2002 · The film's setting is an unnamed South American country in the recent past, where a mysterious terrorist organisation is wreaking havoc with a series of bombings (often carried out by children)...
May 23, 2003 · The Dancer Upstairs: Directed by John Malkovich. With Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto, Laura Morante, Elvira Mínguez. A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- John Malkovich
- 2003-05-23
Nov 27, 2002 · A lesson in how to deal with actors and chicken psychologists from John Malkovich, director of "The Dancer Upstairs".
May 2, 2003 · John Malkovich's "The Dancer Upstairs" was filmed before 9/11, and is based on a novel published in 1997, but has an eerie timeliness in its treatment of a terrorist movement that works as much through fear as though violence.
Investigator Augustin Rejas is attempting to find the mysterious Ezequiel, the leader of a revolution being fermented largely by the indigenous people of an unnamed Latin American nation, a scene that Rejas left behind to pursue worldly ambitions.
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader. The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world.
