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El cerco (1959)

El cerco poster
Directed by
Claude Boissol
Genre
drama film
Country
Argentina
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A drama set in the Argentine province of Mendoza that was shot in black and white but never released commercially. The story follows characters portrayed by Jorge Salcedo and others, though details of the plot are not available from the source material.

black-and-whitedramaticunfinishedobscureslow-pacedmelancholicatmospheric

What happens

El cerco es una película en blanco y negro de Argentina coproducida con Francia, dirigida por Claude Boissol sobre su propio guion según la obra El cerco roto de María Luisa Rubertino que fue producida en 1959 pero nunca fue estrenada comercialmente. La película fue rodada en la provincia de Mendoza y tuvo como protagonistas a Jorge Salcedo, Edda Vermond, Corrado Corradi y Mario Savino. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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