Prisioneros de la tierra
Shot on location in the jungle, this gut-punching work of social realism by Mario Soffici—one of classic Argentine cinema’s foremost directors—simmers with rage against worker oppression. Desperate men are entrapped into indentured labor on a yerba maté plantation under the brutal foreman Köhner—a situation made tenser by the fact that both Köhner and a worker named Podeley love Andrea, the sweet-spirited daughter of the camp’s doctor, and that eventually boils over into an explosive rebellion led by Podeley. The expressionistic cinematography of Pablo Tabernero feverishly evokes a place where suffocating heat, economic exploitation, and cruelty lead inexorably to madness and violence.
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Cast
- Francisco Petrone
- Köhner
- Ángel Magaña
- Esteban Podeley
- Roberto Fugazot
- Orange distiller
- Homero Cárpena
- Friend of Podeley
- Raúl de Lange
- Dr. Else
- Elisa Galvé
- Andrea (“Chinita”)
- Pepito Petray
- Also featuring
- Felix Tortorelli
- Jorge Villoldo
- Ulderico Camorino
- Agustín Barboza
- Singer
Credits
- Director
- Mario Soffici
- Script
- Ulises Petit de Murat
- Script
- Dario Quiroga
- Based on characters from the short stories “Una bofetada,” “Un peón,” “Los destiladores de naranjes” and “Los desperados” by
- Horacio Quiroga
- Cinematography
- Pablo Tabernero
- Editor
- José de Nico
- Editor
- Gerardo Rinaldi
- Sound
- Andrés Szmetan
- Camera
- Humberto Peruzzi
- Makeup
- Luis Lang
- Set decoration
- Ralph Pappier
- Music
- Lucio Demare
- Dialogue
- Ulises Petit de Murat
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