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The Tutor (La Tutora)

Russian title: Воспитатель
Original title: La Tutora

Alternative titles:
Rodillas quemadas | Burnt Knees | Обожжённые колени

Drama – Argentina
Production year: 2015
Movie length: 114 minutes

Director: Iván Noel
Writer: Iván Noel, Henry James
Cinematograph: Raul Vidal, Iván Noel
Music: Iván Noel, Peter Von Harten

Movie description:

Mona picks up her first job tutoring two orphaned children living in a derelict house in the country. Her obsession with trying to educate these two nearly feral children blinds her to the fact they have other plans for her ...
The movie is loosely based on »The Turn oft the Screw« by Henry James.

Mona, a past student in child psychology, is keen to put her knowledge into practice. She attends an interview and is selected to become a full-time private tutor to two orphaned children, in some remote area of Northern Argentina.
Once there, she discovers to her astonishment two almost feral children, the boy Àngel and the girl Ema, left to their own devices within the confine of a derelict mansion. Oblivious to their state, they are also poorly controlled by Clara the old housekeeper, who appears more prone to the bottle than to the kids’ education.
Mona’s duty has become clear now: she must at all cost re-educate these »lost souls« back to normal good values. But, as though the children’s initial resistance and Clara’s apparent unwillingness to help were not enough, she soon discovers an even more urgent and serious threat to their safety: José, the ex-gardener continually appears on the grounds of the house at night, apparently searching for Àngel.
Convinced the children’s ’corruption’ has its roots in this man, she sets out to deal with the situation firmly. Even Clara’s assurance that this man died two years earlier does nothing to weaken her resolve. This new obsession of hers blinds her to the fact that the inhabitants of the mansion appear to have other plans for her.

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