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.

Primer film del tríptico épico que completan "El santo de la espada" y "Güemes, la tierra en armas". Adaptación del poema sobre el gaucho Martín Fierro del escritor argentino José Hernández. Cuando Martín Fierro regresa al rancho familiar lo encuentra abandonado. Recuerda entonces su apacible vida hasta que fue reclutado a la fuerza para servir en el ejército de la frontera, del que acabó desertando. Una voz en off recita los versos de Hernández, relata los enfrentamientos con los indios y denuncia las injusticias sociales y el autoritarismo que se ceban con los más humildes.

A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but they threaten to jump down if any adults enter the terrace.

They are both alone. They need each other but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old wounds festering within them after the death of their mother. When Susana sells their mother's flat, she deprives her brother of the home where he had cared for their mother his whole life. Marcos's need to start living again surfaces when his sister forces him to leave Buenos Aires for Uruguay.

2015 film

1962 film by Enrique Carreras

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.

A group of old actors and filmmakers tries to resist the efforts of a young couple to kick them out of their mansion.

2001 film by Lucrecia Martel