Cinema
Man on Pink Corner
Hombre de la esquina rosada
René Mugica · 1962
Synopsis
In 1910, for the centenary, the governor of Buenos Aires pardons prisoners, according to the Cannes Film Festival; among them is El Corralero, a hired killer who would like to break with crime, and whom fate chooses to avenge a former cellmate. ABC Color places the action on 25 May, in a poor suburb in festive mood, around Rosendo Juárez, the feared knife-fighter, and the Lujanera; Francisco Real, the stranger, comes there to challenge him.
Context
Released on 26 June 1962, the film runs seventy minutes; Isaac Aisenberg, Carlos Adén and Joaquín Gómez Bas adapted it from a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, reports ABC Color. Francisco Petrone, Jacinto Herrera and Susana Campos star in it. In 1979, on Radio Nacional de España, the writer judged it to be the only good adaptation of his work. Restored from the original negatives, it opened the Mar del Plata festival, according to Ámbito.
Who it is for
A suburban drama in Spanish, one hour ten minutes in black and white, about honour, the knife and revenge.
Prizes and reception
The author of the adapted story preferred it to all the other versions drawn from his texts; restored for Cannes Classics in 2023.
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