Cinema
El jefe
Fernando Ayala · 1958
Synopsis
Young men from different backgrounds gather around a leader, Berger, according to the Mar del Plata festival: Solari, an unsuccessful intellectual who has to feed his wife and the expected child; Soto, from a large family in decline; Circuli, fragile, lost without orders; the Ruiz brothers, the elder in rivalry with the leader, the younger torn between Berger and his brother; Gomina, the oldest, devoted to the tango. José Pablo Feinmann, quoted by Página/12, reads in it the disillusionment of a people who discover that their leader has feet of clay.
Context
Released on 23 October 1958 at the Ambassador cinema, the film was the first shot under the 1957 cinema law, and it opened the credit system of the Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía, according to La Nación. It was also Aries's first production, according to Página/12. Ayala wrote it with David Viñas. Alberto de Mendoza was its lead. It has been screened again by the Mar del Plata festival, at its thirty-ninth edition.
Who it is for
A drama in Spanish of an hour and a half, centred on a gang and its leader, carried by its dialogue.
Prizes and reception
The film that established its director and its lead actor, according to La Nación and Página/12.
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