This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.

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Cast

Arturo García Buhr

Mariano Braceras

Lautaro Murúa

Guastavino

Graciela Borges

Mariana Braceras

Leonardo Favio

Adolfo Peña Braceras

Helena Tritek

The Prostitute

Osvaldo Terranova

Lydia Lamaison

Idelma Carlo

Juan Carlos Galván

Hugo Caprera

Raúl Aubel

Claudio Martino