''El Asalto'' ("") is a 1960

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directed and by

Kurt Land Kurt Landesberger (19 February 1913, Vienna, Austria – 13 July 1997 New York City) was an Austrian born Argentine film director of the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Vienna, Land moved to Argentina in the 1930s and began as a film editor, editing f ...

. The film was based on a book by Enrique Silberstein and premiered in

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. It starred

Alberto de Mendoza Alberto Manuel Rodríguez-Gallego González de Mendoza (21 January 1923 – 12 December 2011) was an Argentine film actor who appeared in some 114 films between 1930 and 2005, spanning eight decades. A lifelong figure in Argentine films, De Mendo ...

Plot

A group of mobsters plan a bank heist. But the rehearsal of the robbery is plenty of personal drama, disputes and almost farcical mishaps.

Main cast

...The Boss *

Egle Martin Egle Lucía Martínez Furque (17 June 1936 – 14 August 2022), best known as Egle Martin, was an Argentine singer and actress. Life and career Born in Buenos Aires, the daughter of writer Verónica Berry, Martin began studying classical dance ...

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Tato Bores Mauricio Borensztein (27 April 1927 – 11 January 1996), known by the stage name ''Tato Bores'', was an Argentine film, theatre and television comedian, who specialized in political humor. His ironic TV monologues, delivered at a fast pace, b ...

Osvaldo Terranova Osvaldo Terranova (30 August 1923 – 4 October 1984) was an Argentine film actor. Terranova made over 50 appearances mostly in film between 1949 and 1985. In the early 1980s he made several TV appearances. His last film was Adios Roberto ...

* Thelma del Río * Argentino Ledesma * Mario Lozano *Héctor Méndez * Irma Gabriel

Other cast

*Osvaldo María Cabrera *Víctor Catalano *José De Angelis .... Superintendent Oliva *Conrado Diana *Ángel Díaz *Rolando Dumas .... Francisco Coba *

Mariquita Gallegos Mariquita Gallegos (born 1940) is an Argentine singer and actress.Cowie & Elley p.19 She was married to the Uruguayan actor Juan Carlos Mareco. Selected filmography * ''El Asalto'' (1960) * ''La Chacota'' (1962) * ''Would You Marry Me?'' (1967) ...

.... Woman in disco *Claudia Lapacó .... Woman in disco *René Lester *Pablo Moret *Miguel Paparelli .... The Usher *Gilberto Peyret .... Sanz *María Esther Rodrigo *Carlos Roig *Félix Tortorelli .... The Cashier

External links

* 1960 films 1960s Spanish-language films Films based on Argentine novels 1960 crime drama films Films directed by Kurt Land Argentine crime drama films 1960s Argentine films {{crime-drama-film-stub