Kilómetro 111

Kilómetro 111
Directed by Mario Soffici
Written by Enrique Amorim, Carlos A. Olivari, Sixto Pondal Ríos, Mario Soffici
Starring Pepe Arias, Delia Garcés
Music by Rodolfo Sciammarella
Cinematography Antonio Merayo
Editing by Nicolás Proserpio
Distributed by Argentina Sono Film S.A.C.I.
Release date(s) 1938
Running time 103 minutes
Country Argentina
Language Spanish

Kilómetro 111 is a 1938 Argentine musical film drama directed by Mario Soffici. The film premiered in Buenos Aires.

The film is one of several films directed by Soffici which address the social evils of historical Argentina. The film is based on Carlos Olivari's play La tercera invasion inglesa (1936), which is a fictional semi-documentary of the British railroad monopoly.[1] The film is set in a town in central Argentina and documents the tragedy of the poverty-stricken rural farmers who are forced to sell their harvest to the railroad developers. In an attempt to avoid being exploited, the farmers send their wheat to Buenos Aires, where they unsuccessfully fail to obtian a bank loan. In the end it is down to the generosity of the station master that they are able to use the new line to transport their goods, although his generosity means that he is fired from his job.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b Falcoff, Mark (1975). Prologue to Perón: Argentina in depression and war, 1930-1943. University of California Press. p. 155. ISBN 9780520028746. http://books.google.com/books?id=1jRx_ppcib0C&pg=PA155. Retrieved 6 April 2011. 

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Films directed by Mario Soffici
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s