Unemployed actors become fake poor people to punk a critic—what could go wrong?
Some professional actors are unemployed due to the opinion of a theater critic, then they decide to take revenge and disguise themselves as poor tenants from a neighborhood who are hired by the same critic to perform his work.
Acting
Gola and Fugazot's rapid-fire banter feels improvised
Direction
Saslavsky keeps screwball energy tight at 75 minutes
Director
Luis Saslavsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1938 Argentine comedy channels Hollywood screwball while satirizing Buenos Aires' theatrical class tensions—Saslavsky was clearly devouring Preston Sturges and Lubitsch.
José Gola, the lead, was Argentina's biggest star before dying tragically young in 1939—this is one of his final screen performances.
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