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The Man Who Owed a Death (1955)

The Man Who Owed a Death poster
Original title
El hombre que debía una muerte
Directed by
Mario Soffici
Genre
crime film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man carries a secret debt from his past that draws him into a web of crime and violence. The film follows him as he confronts the consequences of an earlier death he owes.

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What happens

El hombre que debía una muerte (English: The Man Who Owed a Death) is a 1955 Argentine crime film directed by Mario Soffici and starring Amelia Bence and Carlos Cores. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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