Cinema
Crimen sin olvido
Jorge Mistral · 1968
Synopsis
The film starts from the Eichmann case. Professor Asland, one of the few survivors of an extermination camp in the Black Forest, recognises in Latin America Hans Wolf, a lieutenant of the camp commandant, and is murdered in a port. Commandant Marne takes over the investigation and goes to La Paz with the dead man's daughter, the only one who knows whom to look for. The Bolivian police lose the trail at the border, the helicopter pilot who was following them is killed, and Marne enters, under a false name, a mine on the altiplano run by Germans.
Context
A co-production of Proinca Argentina and Proinca Bolivia, the film is written by Mistral and Gustavo Ghirardi from a book by the latter, and Mistral plays the role of Marne opposite Graciela Dufau. The music brings together Ástor Piazzolla and the Bolivian trio of Ernesto Cavour, Alfredo Domínguez and Gilbert Fabré, who also appear on screen. Shot in colour, it exploits Andean landscapes and folklore, at the cost of touristic scenes and musical interludes that halt the action. Shown in Bolivia, it never had a commercial release in Argentina.
Who it is for
In Spanish, with no French version. An international intrigue of modest manufacture, to be seen for what it shows of the country and of an era.
Prizes and reception
Panned: Alfonso Gumucio saw in it a crime whose victim was the seventh art, Guadi Calvo a poor detective story in imitation of Hollywood.
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