A man runs from his crime, finds love, then fate laughs in his face.
The protagonist commits a crime and abandons his brother, on whom the shadow of suspicion falls, to avoid punishment. In his escape he meets for the first time the emotion of a true love, but fatality takes it upon himself, pushing him back onto the criminal path.
Acting
Narciso Ibáñez Menta carries crushing guilt in every twitch.
Direction
Borcosque squeezes noir dread from 1950 Buenos Aires.
Director
Carlos F. Borcosque
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Borcosque fled Spain's Civil War and brought European fatalism to Argentine cinema.
This 1950 noir predates Argentina's famous 1950s noir boom, making it a stylistic ghost of what followed.
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