The Dependent (1969)
March 1, 1969Release Date

Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Walter Vidarte
Fernández

Graciela Borges
Señorita Plasini

Nora Cullen
Señora Plasini

Fernando 'Tacholas' Iglesias
Don Vila

Martín Andrade
Estanislao

José E. Felicetti
Fernández boy

Linda Peretz

Leonardo Favio
(voice) / Director / Writer

Edgardo Suárez
(voice)

Juan Carlos Bertola
Sound Design Assistant

Johann Sebastian Bach
Music

Vico Berti
Original Music Composer

Jorge Bruno
Makeup Artist

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Producer

Marcelo Pais
Camera Operator

José Feijóo
Sound Designer

Francisco Canaro
Music

Aníbal Di Salvo
Director of Photography

Roberto Irigoyen
Writer

Teresa Millan
Set Decoration

Jorge Zuhair Jury
Writer

Dolores De Pérez
Costume Design

Juan Sires
Executive Producer

Alberto Tarantino
Production Manager
Media.


Details.
Release DateMarch 1, 1969
Original NameEl dependiente
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 27m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
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, after Crónica de un niño solo (1965) and El romance del Aniceto y la Francisca (1967), which have earned him recognition as one of the most important auteurs of Argentine cinema, despite not being so well known outside the country. The film was produced by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson through his company Contracuadro, and was shot in the spring of 1968 in the then small town of Derqui, in the Pilar district of the province of Buenos Aires.
Upon completion, El dependiente was screened in the main competition of the 1968 San Sebastián Film Festival, where it received the Cine Nuevo (English: New Cinema) award and an honorable mention from the Federation of Cine Clubs of Spain, and the Cartagena Film Festival, where it received the award for best film. The film had its commercial release on 1 January 1969 at the Paramount and Libertador theaters in Buenos Aires. Like Favio's previous films, El dependiente was well-received by critics but a box-office failure, which prompted the director to reinvent himself as a successful popular singer. At the 1970 Argentine Film Critics Awards, Vidarte received the Silver Condor Award for Best Actor and Cullen the Silver Condor Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2000, it was selected as the 14th greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll conducted by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida util, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 4th position. In 2022, a print of the film was declared of National Artistic Interest by the Argentine government, along with other Favio films that were part of the holdings of a company that went bankrupt that passed to the protection of the National Commission for Monuments, Places and Historical Property.
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