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Director
Director
Cast
Carlos Robledo Puch
Ramón Peralta
Ana María Peralta
José Peralta
Aurora Robledo Puch
Héctor Robledo Puch
Miguel Prieto
Marisol / Magdalena
Federica
Synopsis
Buenos Aires, 1971. Carlitos is a seventeen-year-old with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people’s things, but it wasn’t until his early adolescence that his true calling—to be a thief—manifested itself. When he meets Ramon at his new school, Carlitos is immediately drawn to him and starts showing off to get his attention. Together they will embark on a journey of discovery, love and crime.
Original title
El ángel
IMDb Rating
7.3 1,577 votes
TMDb Rating
7.7 votes
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In real life, Carlos is the longest-serving prisoner in Argentina, having spent more than 45 years in jail.
Official submission of Argentina for the ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ category of the 91st Academy Awards in 2019.
Fun fact from Argentina citizen, at the time (1972) the maximum sentence for any crime was life sentence, but that carry implicit 45 year parole mandatory, because the law say so, the crimes was so severe the judge decided to avoid this possibility of getting out 45 years later, and decided to lay down a new unprecedented at the time sentence of life time reclusion plus undetermined length of prison, so he after 45 year in prison ask every year how much is the sentence left, since is undetermined it turned in to a political move, and he will never get out if any parent of any assassination victim is alive.