Tetro

Tetro
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Directed by	Francis Ford Coppola
Produced by	Francis Ford Coppola
Written by	Francis Ford Coppola
Starring	Vincent Gallo Alden Ehrenreich Maribel Verdú Klaus Maria Brandauer Carmen Maura
Music by	Osvaldo Golijov
Cinematography	Mihai Mălaimare Jr.
Edited by	Walter Murch
Distributed by	Alta Films American Zoetrope
Release date	June 11, 2009 (2009-06-11)
Running time	126 minutes
Country	United States Argentina Spain
Language	English Italian Spanish
Box office	$2.6 million

Tetro is a 2009 American-Argentine drama film written, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich and Maribel Verdú. Filming took place in 2008 in Buenos Aires, Patagonia, and Spain. Tetro received a limited release in the United States on June 11, 2009.

Set in Argentina with a high content of film noir, this story of the reunion of two brothers follows the rivalries born out of creative differences passed down through generations of an artistic Italian immigrant family.

In February 2007, Coppola announced that he would produce and direct the film Tetro, based on a script that he had written while editing Youth Without Youth. Production was scheduled to begin in Buenos Aires, Argentina in late 2007. Coppola was attracted to Argentina as a location, "I knew Argentina has a great cultural, artistic, literary, musical, cinema tradition, and I like those kinds of atmospheres very much because you usually find creative people to work with." Production did not begin as scheduled, and by March 2008, Vincent Gallo and Maribel Verdú joined the cast. The Spanish company Tornasol Films and the Italian company BIM Distribuzione signed with the director to co-produce the film. Production began on March 31, 2008 with a budget of $5 million, with Coppola using the production style similar to his previous film Youth Without Youth. Filming took place in La Boca in Buenos Aires and other parts of the capital city. Filming also followed in the Andean foothills in Patagonia and at the Ciudad de la Luz studios in Alicante, Spain. Production concluded in June.