The Hand in the Trap (1961)

Original title

La mano en la trampa

Directed by

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Genre

drama film

Country

Argentina, Spain

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman returns to her childhood home in a small Argentine town. She uncovers hidden secrets from her family's past that still haunt the present.

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What happens

The Hand in the Trap (Spanish: La mano en la trampa) is a 1961 Argentine film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and starring Francisco Rabal, Elsa Daniel and Leonardo Favio. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 17th position. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 47th position. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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