''The Underground Man'' ( es, El hombre del subsuelo) is a 1981 Argentine
drama film
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directed by
Nicolás Sarquís.
The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
54th Academy Awards
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, but was not accepted as a nominee.
[Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
Summary
Set in the 1930s, a tormented man and his butler live in an old mansion in
Adrogué
Adrogué () is a city in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, located 23 km south of Buenos Aires. It is the administrative headquarters for Almirante Brown Partido (county).
At slightly more than 30,000 inhabitants, it is a prominent residenti ...
, where they film pornographic movies in the basement, following the grandfather's will.
Cast
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Antonio Ber Ciani
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Jesús Berenguer
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Héctor Bidonde
Héctor Pastor Bidonde (born March 3, 1937 in La Plata) is a noted Argentine theatre, film and television actor.
He was a shift worker in a tool & dye factory when, in 1954, he was offered a part in Carlos P. Cabral's play ''Amarretes''. He was ...
as Jalil
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Aldo Braga as Casanegra
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Lucrecia Capello Lucrezia or Lucrecia may refer to:
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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 ...
as Diego Carmona
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Regina Duarte
Regina Blois Duarte (born 5 February 1947) is a Brazilian actress who briefly served as Special Secretary of Culture, a cabinet position in President Jair Bolsonaro's federal administration, from March to May 2020.
Political activities
Her effo ...
as Luisa Dos Santos
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Ulises Dumont
Ulises Dumont (April 7, 1937 – November 29, 2008) was a prolific Argentine film actor, credited with over 80 appearances in film and countless others in theatre and television from 1964 until his death in 2008.
Life and work
Born in 1937 in ...
as Baibiene
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Adela Gleijer
Adela may refer to:
* ''Adela'', a 1933 Romanian novel by Garabet Ibrăileanu
* ''Adela'' (1985 film), a 1985 Romanian film directed by Mircea Veroiu
* ''Adela'' (2000 film), a 2000 Argentine thriller film directed and written by Eduardo Mign ...
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Miguel Ligero as Severo
See also
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References
External links
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1981 films
1981 drama films
Argentine drama films
Films based on works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1980s Spanish-language films
1980s Argentine films
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