Alias Gardelito

Alberto Argibay Walter Vidarte Virginia Lake

Alias ​​Gardelito is an Argentine film of Lautaro Murua from 1966, the screenplay was written by Augusto Roa Bastos and Bernardo Kordon. The cast includes Alberto Argibay, Virginia Lake and Walter Vidarte.

Action

The film is about the difficulty in the face of relentless poverty to live as an honest man. The film's title alludes to the Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel, the idol of the antihero Toribio, played by Alberto Argibay. Toribio goal in life is to emulate the famous singer and also to succeed in the music business. At the same time he did not stop it stealing. Discouraged because he does not want to succeed his musical breakthrough, it can be one with a smuggling organization.

Assessment

Alias ​​Gardelito is one of those films of the " New Cinema ", which emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and heard, in addition to films by Simón Feldman, David José Kohon, Rodolfo Kuhn, Manuel Antin and René Mugica to the best films of that period. According to Paulo Antônio de Paranaguá is located in these films focus on the psychology of the people, the social issues, which are dealt with in the movies, however, provide the background for their actions, as is the case also in Alias ​​Gardelito. 1968, the film received the Premios Cóndor de Plata for Best Film of the year.