Alan Parker's screenplay of Evita commenced principal photography on location in Argentina and Europe for 14 weeks. The film, starring Madonna, Antonio Benderas, Jonathan Pryce and Jimmy Nail, is adapted and directed by Parker who, together with Robert Stigwood and Andrew G. Vajna, is also sharing a producer's credit.
Evita chronicles the brief, but dynamic life of Eva Peron (Madonna) who, as the wife of president Juan Peron, rose from poverty to become one of the most powerful women in the world. She is sardonically observed by the Brechtian everyman Che (Banderas) who chronicles the story of Peron's life until her tragic death at the age of 33.
The film will be released by Hollywood Pictures in the US and Latin America, by Paramount in Germany and Japan, and licensed in the rest of the world by Summit Entertainment.
