Cinema
Dar la cara
José A. Martínez Suárez · 1962
Synopsis
Three young men have just finished their military service, according to MDZ. Each takes his own road: one turns to cinema, the second to cycling, the third to politics. A Mar del Plata daily notes adult situations filmed in real settings.
Context
Released on 29 November 1962, the film runs a hundred and eleven minutes. The director wrote it with David Viñas. The cartoonist Quino took Mafalda's name from a baby seen in a bassinet in it, according to Uno TV. Manrupe and Portela, La Prensa and La Nación reviewed it. The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires included it in 2026 in a cycle devoted to the generation of the sixties.
Who it is for
Nearly two hours in Spanish, three destinies followed side by side in the Buenos Aires of the late fifties.
Prizes and reception
The film in which an Argentine cartoonist found the first name of the heroine of his comic strip, according to two sources.
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