“La Puta Vida,” a new international feature starring Colombian actor Claudio Cataño – star of Netflix’s acclaimed adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” – has begun filming in Chile.
A five-country co-production led by Columbia’s Red Collision Studios and Chile’s Afro Films, “La Puta Vida” is directed by Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Araya Serrano.
Starring alongside Cataño are Germany’s Christine Neubauer, recently seen in Daniel Alvarenga’s period drama “Hundswut,” and Chilean thesp Tamara Acosta.
Described as “an intense blend of road movie, thriller and emotional drama set in northern Chile in 2005,” “La Puta Vida” follows Emma (Neubauer), a woman who discovers she was taken from her biological parents and raised inside the infamous Colonia Dignidad cult. Determined to uncover the truth about her origins, she embarks on a journey across the Atacama Desert alongside Olga, a charismatic con artist fleeing from Jairo (Cataño), a ruthless hitman sent to kill her and recover stolen money.
As the three characters become trapped in a dangerous journey through the vast barren terrain of northern Chile, buried wounds, betrayals and unexpected emotional bonds begin to emerge against the unforgiving landscapes of the world’s driest desert.
