Directed by Fernando Ayala • 1956 • Argentina
Starring Carlos Cores, Julia Sandoval, Vassili Lambrinos
Featuring stunning, shadow-drenched cinematography and an innovative tango-jazz-classical score by the great Astor Piazzolla, this expressionistically stylized noir has been acclaimed as one of the greatest Argentine films ever made. Alfredo Gasper (Carlos Cores), a dissatisfied Buenos Aires newspaperman, partners with Paar Liudas, a clever Hungarian refugee (Vassili Lambrinos) who needs money to bring his family to Argentina. Together they create a bogus correspondence school, exploiting the hopes of would-be journalists. As their scheme succeeds beyond their wildest dreams, a mystery woman from Liudas’s past sparks Gasper’s suspicion: his charming colleague may be playing him for a sucker. Soon Gasper finds himself plotting the perfect crime—but fate has many twists in store.
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The Black Vampire
Directed by Román Viñoly Barreto • 1953 • Argentina
Starring Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nelly PanizzaThis fascinating, long-overlooked remake of Fritz Lang’s M offers a fresh perspective on the landmark thriller by focusing on the lives of the female characters ignored in earlier iteration...
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Native Son
Directed by Pierre Chenal • 1951 • United States, Argentina
Starring Richard Wright, Gloria Madison, Willa Pearl CurtisOne of the most controversial novels of its day, Richard Wright’s “Native Son” (first published in 1940) exposed the injustices of urban African American life through the eyes ...
