La caída (1959) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1959 · 84 mins · Spanish

Directed by

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Starring

Lydia Lamaison, Duilio Marzio, Lautaro Murúa, Elsa Daniel, Susana Latou, Mónica Linares

A university student goes to live with a bedridden mother and her four children, helping with the household chores. As she becomes attached to the family, an attorney is attracted to her, yet tension arises when she refuses to abandon the woman, whom he dismissively calls “that lunatic asylum.”