Bad Company (1986)

Original title

Malayunta

Directed by

José Santiso

Genre

drama film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

9.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of people in a boarding house discover they are spying on one another. The film is an allegory for life under a dictatorship and the complicity of ordinary citizens with the military.

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What happens

Bad Company (Spanish: Malayunta) is a 1986 Argentine drama film written and directed by José Santiso and starring Federico Luppi, Bárbara Mújica and Miguel Ángel Solá. The film is based on a play by Jacobo Langsner called Pater noster, which premiered in Uruguay in 1977 and was first staged in Argentina in 1981 by Teatro Abierto. The film is a "thinly veiled allegory of life under a dictatorship" and treats the topic of the Dirty War by denouncing "the complicity of large sectors of the civil population with the military." It earned praise as "the most profound, disturbing, uncompromising, and novel of all the films of the new democratic period to examine the years of terror." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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