Characters & Themes
El protegido (1956) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1956 · 80 mins · Spanish
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- Directed by
- Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
- Starring
- Pepe Soriano, Justo Martínez, Mariela Reyes, Guillermo Murray, Eduardo Humberto Nóbili, Guillermo Battaglia
Set against the decline of Argentina's once‑glamorous film studios, a producer finds his marriage strained when his actress wife begins an affair with a promising young scriptwriter. The resulting love triangle spirals into a dark crime that shatters their lives.
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