A father meets his son. The hospital calls the cops. Seventy minutes of anxiety.
The problems of a man who when he goes to see his newborn son is mistaken for an assailant.
Direction
Kurt Land's tight 70-minute vice grip never lets you breathe.
Acting
Martínez Allendo's escalating desperation is physically painful to witness.
Director
Kurt Land
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Argentina's Perón era, the film's critique of institutional failure was politically risky — though it played safer than contemporaneous social realist works.
The 70-minute runtime wasn't just economical storytelling; Argentine studios often packaged shorts with features, but Land insisted this needed no padding. The suffocation is intentional.
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