Film

Bill 79

2023 · 1h 19m · History

Inspired by true events. Buenos Aires, 1979. Bill Evans, the great jazz pianist, arrives in Argentina for a series of concerts. One of them is in San Nicolás, a town in the province of Buenos Aires. Evans (a heroin addict for twenty years), along with his two musicians and his manager, get into the Argentine businessman's car. On the day of the concert, they learn they will be playing during the "Miss Winter 1979" pageant. Out-of-tune piano, boxing, drugs, death, memories, whiskey, and empanadas. In a town similar to his childhood, the impossible and the true collide for Evans.

Diego Gentile

Bill Evans

Marina Bellati

Susan

Walter Jakob

Julia Martínez Rubio

Alejandro Jovic

Guido Botto Fiora

Paco Gorriz

Elvira Onetto

Martín Pavlovsky

Marcelo Xicarte

• Mariano GalperinWriter · Director · Producer
• Alejandro GiulianiDirector of Photography
• Andrés TamborninoEditor
• Alejo SantosEditor

Release date

May 11, 2023

Status

Released

Original language

Spanish

Runtime

1h 19m

Genres

History