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Raúl Damonte Botana (November 20, 1939, Buenos Aires – December 14, 1987, Paris), better known by the nom de plume Copi (for "copito de nieve", Spanish for "little snowflake"), was an Argentine writer, cartoonist, and playwright who spent most of his career in Paris.
Damonte spent most of his youth in Montevideo. His maternal grandfather was the journalist Natalio Félix Botana and his father was the journalist Raúl Damonte Taborda, an antiperonist Radical politician and director of the journal Tribuna Popular. Raúl showed an early talent for drawing and, from his adolescence, contributed caricatures to his father's publication and to the satirical magazine Tía Vicenta.
His father's political activities forced the family into exile in Uruguay, Haiti, and later New York. He finally settled in Paris, where he embarked on a career as a cartoonist for such newspapers as Le Nouvel Observateur. His most notable character during this period was La Femme assise, The Sitting Woman.
He was a member of Tse, an association of Franco-Argentine artists with whom in 1969 he staged a biographical play about Eva Perón. His theatrical works, influenced by Samuel Beckett, are characterized by the failure of characters to communicate.
Actors: Jean-François Gallotte (actor), Andréa Ferréol (actress), Sophie Mounicot (actress), Judith Magre (actress), Stéphane Freiss (actor), Michel Vuillermoz (actor), Laurent Bateau (actor), Henri Garcin (actor), Laurent Gamelon (actor), Gérard Jugnot (actor), Philippe Laudenbach (actor), Thierry Lhermitte (actor), Christian Pereira (actor), Isabelle Gélinas (actress), Christian Gazio (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Sandro Aguilar (producer), Sandro Aguilar (editor), João Bénard da Costa (actor), Manuel Mozos (writer), Manuel Mozos (actor), Carloto Cotta (actor), João Figueiras (producer), João Nicolau (actor), Silvia Grabowski (costume designer), Pedro Caldas (actor), José Airosa (actor), Miguel Gomes (writer), Miguel Gomes (director), Miguel Gomes (editor), Gracinda Nave (actress),
Plot: Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: "Up to your 30's you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve".
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy,Actors: Ticky Holgado (actor), Béatrice Costantini (actress), Eric Prat (actor), Claude Legros (actor), Zabou Breitman (actress), Patrick Timsit (actor), Victoria Abril (actress), Franck de la Personne (actor), Richard Bohringer (actor), Laurent Gamelon (actor), Roland Blanche (actor), Gérard Jugnot (actor), Jean-Claude Leguay (actor), Charlotte de Turckheim (actress), Janine Darcey (actress),
Genres: Comedy,