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El habilitado
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Wikipedia article
'El habilitado' is a 1971 Argentine film. It was directed by Jorge Cedron, written by Miguel Briante and Cedron, and starred Hctor Alterio, Carlos Antn, and Billy Cedrn.
Plot summary
The link between five employees of a Mar del Plata store who try to climb positions on their sad situation.
Cast
* Hctor Alterio
* Carlos Antn
* Billy Cedrn
* Pablo Cedrn
* Gladys Cicagno
* Marta Gam
* Jos Mara Gutirrez
* Claude Marting
* Norberto Pagani
* Ana Mara Picchio
* Alfredo Quesada
* Hctor Tealdi
* Walter Vidarte
Reception
Director Cedrn was quoted in 'Clarn' as saying, "They are not going to find in my film those vast theories about reality that some French filmmakers construct, I want them to find reality ... not a generalized, abstract reality ... In my film there is more room for the aesthetics of a Roberto Arlt, a Beckett let the signatures of some nouvelle addicts wander".
A review in 'Clarn' read: "Film language stripped of all mannerism, with stark images... each of the characters is precisely defined."
Manrupe and Portela wrote in 'Un diccionario de films argentinos' that it was a "[g]ood approach to an office story, its pettiness and competitiveness."
References
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