El portón de los sueños
1998, Spanish. Directed by Hugo Gamarra Etcheverry.
The film mixes fiction and documentary in an unconventional cinematographic style, to narrate a poetic adventure that encounters the mythical universe of the writer and the Paraguay of yesterday and today. Augusto Roa Bastos, the greatest Paraguayan writer and 1989 Cervantes Prize winner, author of "The Thunder Between the Leaves", "Son of Man", "Yo el Supremo" and "El Fiscal" among others, returns from exile and undertakes a geographical journey and at the same time dreamlike to Iturbe, his childhood town, searching for the land and the characters of his literary fictions to write his novel titled "Contravida." The writer thus participates in a dual condition: as an interpreter of Paraguayan reality and as a protagonist of his own imaginary universe.
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Spanish
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- Released
- 3 March 1998
- Country
- Paraguay
- Written by
- Gloria Muñoz, Agustín Núñez, Hugo Gamarra Etcheverry
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El portón de los sueños runs 90 minutes (1h 30m).
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El portón de los sueños isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 3 March 1998. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed El portón de los sueños?
El portón de los sueños (1998) was directed by Hugo Gamarra Etcheverry and stars Justina Aguero, Rosa Elena Blanco, Juanita Espinola.