Cinema
Chronicle of a Boy Alone
Crónica de un niño solo
Leonardo Favio · 1965
Synopsis
Polín, eleven, is a rowdy boy harshly treated in a reformatory. The sheet from the Aula de Cine de Huesca describes the life of this poor, abandoned child, divided between the shantytown and the institution for minors. The Berkeley museum speaks of the rigour and capricious brutality of this centre, and states that Polín lives with his mother in the shantytown. Diego Puente plays the role.
Context
Released on 5 May 1965, this first feature film runs seventy-nine minutes. The director wrote it with Zuhair Jorge Jury, presented by Infobae as his brother; the same article sees in Polín the filmmaker himself. The music is borrowed from Cimarosa and Marcello, according to the Aragonese entry. It received the Silver Condor for best film, and the Museo del Cine poll placed it first in 2000, fifth in 2022. The Cine Select in La Plata screened it in 35 mm to open a retrospective.
Who it is for
A film in Spanish of under an hour and twenty minutes, in black and white, about poor childhood and confinement.
Prizes and reception
Ranked the greatest Argentine film of all time in the survey conducted by the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires in 2000.
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