Cinema
El negoción
Simón Feldman · 1959
Synopsis
In the imaginary village of Villa Caballete, we discover the profit that can be made from horse dung. FilmAffinity spells out the method: small bags tied to the horses' tails collect the manure, so that the street sweepers, made redundant, are dismissed, and the manure is sold through a network in which officials and inventors let themselves be corrupted. Ubaldo Martínez plays Bonifacio, Tincho Zabala the president Miraflores.
Context
Released on 5 November 1959, this first feature film was written by the director, the cartoonist Oski and Juan José Barrenechea, from an idea by Lucía Gabriel. Jaime Potenze, in the journal Criterio, saw it as a political satire, and Clarín saw a bold idea served by uneven direction. Manrupe and Portela read in it a mockery of totalitarianism centred on Peronism.
Who it is for
A satire in Spanish, seventy minutes long, on the corruption of a small administration.
Prizes and reception
For Manrupe and Portela, a lucid mockery of totalitarianism and of scheming.
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