El dependiente (1969)
Note: this print runs 78 minutes against a recorded 87 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Walter Vidarte, Graciela Borges, Nora Cullen, Fernando Iglesias 'Tacholas', Martín Andrade, Linda Peretz, Leonardo Favio, Edgardo Suárez
Directed by Leonardo Favio
El dependiente (Spanish for "the shop assistant" but also "the dependent") is a 1969 Argentine drama film directed by Leonardo Favio and starring Graciela Borges, Walter Vidarte, Fernando Iglesias and Nora Cullen. It is based on the short story of the same name by Jorge Zuhair Jury, Favio's brother and frequent collaborator, with whom he also co-wrote the screenplay alongside Roberto Irigoyen. Set in a small provincial town, the film tells the story of Mr. Fernández, a lonely shop assistant in a hardware store that falls in love with Miss Plasini, a mysterious and isolated woman who lives with her mother. It is the last installment of an unofficial trilogy of films Favio made in the 1960s, a
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