With Burning Patience
(Ardiente Paciencia)
A witty and gently poetic fictionalization of the last years of Pablo Neruda's life, set in the Chilean seaside village where he lived. When young Mario, the local postman, falls in love, he quite naturally turns to his best costumer for help, and courts his Beatriz with gems from Neruda's love poems passed off as his own. In the background the events of the period unfold, including the Nobel Prize, Neruda's acceptance speech, and his brief stint in politics before the violent overthrow of the Allende government. (Filmed in Portugal by a Chilean director, financed by German television.)