Last Days of the Victim (1982)

Original title

Últimos días de la víctima

Directed by

Adolfo Aristarain

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A cold professional hitman carries out a contract killing in Buenos Aires. He finds himself entangled in a web of deceit and double-crosses.

tensenoirishmethodicalbleaksuspensefulgrittyslow-burncerebral

What happens

Last Days of the Victim (Spanish: Últimos días de la víctima) is a 1982 Argentine crime thriller film directed by Adolfo Aristarain and starring Federico Luppi. It was written by Aristarain and José Pablo Feinmann, and based on Feinmann's novel of the same name. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. 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 23rd 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 36th position. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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