Carlos Cores is a poor newspaperman who can't take care of his sister and widowed mother. His editor drives him to be a better journalist, but he just can't do it. One day, however, he falls in with Vassili Lambrinos, a Hungarian emigree without papers. Lambrinos proposes they set up a mail-order school for journalists. It is a great success, even though they know it is a scam. Cores comes to believe that Lambrinos' talk about his family is a lie to lull him. He is convinced that Lambrinos will get his papers, and cut him out entirely. So he kills Lambrinos buries the corpse in the back yard. The next day, Lambrinos' son shows up.
It's a melodramatic situation, with Cores' descent into paranoia, accompanied by dream sequences and everyone else acting normal and cheerful as Cores' growing horror consumes him. Even the femme fatale of the movie is human compared to the demons that devour Cores. With some striking camerawork by Ricardo Younis, this is ia great movie to introduce you to Argentine films and check off your list.
It's a melodramatic situation, with Cores' descent into paranoia, accompanied by dream sequences and everyone else acting normal and cheerful as Cores' growing horror consumes him. Even the femme fatale of the movie is human compared to the demons that devour Cores. With some striking camerawork by Ricardo Younis, this is ia great movie to introduce you to Argentine films and check off your list.