Suburb (1951)

Original title

Suburbio

Directed by

León Klimovsky

Genre

drama film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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How it feels

This Argentine drama looks at daily life in a poor Buenos Aires neighborhood. It follows residents dealing with hardship and community pressures.

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What happens

Suburb (Spanish: Suburbio) is a 1951 Argentine drama film of the classical era of Argentine cinema, directed by León Klimovsky and starring Pedro López Lagar, Fanny Navarro and Zoe Ducós. The film portrays life in one of the poorer neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. Under pressure from the Peronist authorities, Klimovsky changed the ending to suggest that the problems of such communities were now a thing of the past. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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