

A 69-minute Argentine thriller where innocence hangs on missing papers — and you're already guilty.
Direction
Cosimi squeezes maximum tension from minimal resources and a shoestring budget.
Acting
Sapelli's stiff-upper-lip breakdown in the third act hits different.

Director
Nelo Cosimi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Argentina's Infamous Decade, the film thinly veils criticism of military corruption that would explode with the 1943 coup.
Domingo Sapelli was primarily a tango singer; this was his rare dramatic lead. He reportedly took the role to avoid being typecast as 'the guy who sings while drunk.'