A deadbeat husband fakes his own death and somehow makes it everyone else's problem.
A man pretends to be dead and his dying wish causes his wife to marry a drifter and lose her inheritance.
Acting
Elina Colomer's escalating desperation as Margarita is pure comedic timing.
Writing
The will's absurd conditions create a Rube Goldberg machine of social disaster.
Director
Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Torres Ríos was Argentina's most prolific director—this is one of 60+ films he made, often satirizing bourgeois moral hypocrisy.
The 74-minute runtime wasn't artistic choice; Argentine studio quotas demanded certain lengths for domestic distribution.
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