The White Land

1959 Argentine film
  • February 19, 1959 (1959-02-19)
Running time
78 minutesCountryArgentinaLanguageSpanish

The White Land (Spanish: Las tierras blancas) is a 1959 Argentine drama film directed by Hugo del Carril and starring del Carril, Ricardo Trigo and Amanda Silva.[1] It is based on a novel by Juan José Manauta. It is set in a poor village in Santiago del Estero Province in Northern Argentina, where the semi-desert climate gives much of the landscape a whitish appearance alluded to in the title.

Cast

  • Hugo del Carril as Natalio
  • Ricardo Trigo as A Countryman
  • Amanda Silva as The Mother
  • Nora Palmer as Angelina
  • Carlos Olivieri as Odiseo
  • Raúl del Valle as The Bully
  • Juan José Manauta as The Teacher
  • Totón Podestá
  • Antonio Capuano
  • Mónica Cristina Ramos
  • Juan Armendáriz
  • David Socco

References

  1. ^ Cabrera p.139

Bibliography

  • Borrás, Eduardo. Las aguas bajan turbias. Editorial Biblos, 2006.
  • Cabrera, Gustavo. Hugo del Carril: un hombre de nuestro cine. Ediciones Culturales Argentinas, 1989.

External links

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