The romantic story between a young employee and the seller of a bookstore whose father wishes to marry her with an older man.
Direction
Ferreyra crams operatic stakes into barely an hour like a madman.
Production
Buenos Aires locations that breathe 1930s working-class texture.
Director
José A. Ferreyra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ferreyra was Argentina's most prolific silent-era director; this late-30s talkie shows him adapting to sound while keeping his melodramatic visual grammar intact.
Floren Delbene was a tango film staple — his casting basically signaled 'working-class heartthrob' to 1930s Argentine audiences before he spoke a word.
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