Chronicle of a Boy Alone

  • Diego Puente: Polin
  • Tino Pascali: Law Officer
  • Cacho Espindola: Teacher of Physical Education
  • Victoriano Moreira: Fiori
  • Beto Gianola: policeman
  • Leonardo Favio: Fabián

Crónica de un niño solo (such as " Chronicle of a lonely child " ) is an Argentine film of the year 1964 and as such, the debut feature from director Leonardo Favio. The main role was played Diego Puente. Was performed for the first time the black and white film on May 5, 1965 In 1966 he was awarded the Cóndor de Plata and in 1965 at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata. Crónica de un niño solo is considered a classic of Argentine cinema history.

Action

The film shows the experiences of deportees in a reformatory young Polish. Polish woman flees from the prevailing conditions in the home of violence and spends in the slums of the city of Buenos Aires, on a river, a few hours of freedom before it is taken up again.

Background

The film is considered late work and highlight within the Argentine flow of the nuevo cine ( " new cinema ").

Crónica de un niño solo is the country film debut Leonardo Favios, created in the brief era Iliad, which are understood as well as the uprooting Polins in the film as film is partly autobiographical fermata kann.Der and part one of a trilogy that Favio with Este es el romance del Aniceto y la Francisca de cómo quedo trunco ​​, comenzó la tristeza y unas pocas cosas más ... (1966) and El dependiente (1969 ) completed.

On average, outweigh plan sequences, music is placed underneath the film in only four scenes.

In Argentina, the film was banned for many years after its release due to its depiction of corruption and violence in a state-run children's home. Today he is released in Argentina from the age of 18.

Criticism

RosarioCine.com.ar honors the film with the words " sensitive y con una poética desgarradora, una historia que Construye Aún conmueve profundamente y la mantienen como uno de los más señeros y valor de la historia del ables filmes cine nacional " ( German: "sensitive and a harrowing poetics, [ Leonardo Favio ] creates a story that is still profoundly moved and they keep them as one of the most unique and valuable films of the national cinema ").

According to the Argentine film critic David Oubiña succeeded Favio " to articulate Certain European New Wave Influences within the framework of a personal aesthetic did demolished the barrier Separating high culture from art" ( German: " certain European New Wave influences within the framework of a personal to articulate aesthetic that destroyed the barrier between high culture and art ").

Tim Barnard According shows up in Crónica, a juvenile universe that is always only briefly disturbed by adults.

Awards

  • Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata 1965: FIPRESCI Prize
  • Premios Cóndor de Plata 1966 Cóndor de Plata ( Best Film )
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