Cinema
Los inundados
Fernando Birri · 1962
Synopsis
A humble family lives on the bank of the río Salado, in Santa Fe, worn down by floods, and its head awaits help from the notables. According to the Berkeley museum, the people displaced by a flood are housed in a camp where the politics of an election season takes them hostage, and the Gaitáns live in a freight wagon that one day starts rolling across the countryside. Pirucho Gómez plays Dolores Gaitán.
Context
Based on a short story by Mateo Booz, the film was written by the director and Jorge A. Ferrando and runs eighty-seven minutes. It received the first work prize at Venice, shared with David and Lisa, according to Cinema Tropical. The Argentine premiere took place on 26 April. The Pacific Film Archive in California screened it in 1989, and the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires included it in a cycle devoted to the generation of the sixties.
Who it is for
A Spanish-language film of an hour and a half, shot in Santa Fe, about a poor family tossed between the water and electoral promises.
Prizes and reception
Awarded a prize at Venice, ex aequo with an American film, according to an encyclopedia and a New York obituary.
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