Malambo

Malambo (1942)

Drama

Based on a quechua legend, Malambo tells the story of a woman who lost her husband and son because of the greedy patrón of an hacienda. She swore that she would never remove the cloth over her eyes until her dead were avenged by the deaths of the patrón and his daughter. Nature seems to be on her side, since a drought has afflicted the land. Her other son, Malambo, accepts the duty of revenge. Malambo is no normal human: he is the runa-uturungo, or Hombre Tigre, of Quechua lore, and he cannot be wounded by bullets. He leads the obreros to rise in revolt and defeats the patrón. However, instead of killing the patrón's daughter--the blind Urpila --he falls in love with her, thereby breaking his mother's heart.

Director: Alberto de Zavalía

Casts

	Delia Garcés as Urpila
	Oscar Valicelli as Malambo
	Orestes Caviglia as El emponchado
	Milagros de la Vega as La madre
	Alberto Bello as Soria
	Nelo Cosimi as El patrón
	Mariana Martí as La negrita
	Tito Alonso as El aguaterito
	Margarita Burke as Vieja Nro. 1
	María Goicochea as Vieja Nro. 2
	Lucía Barausse as Vieja Nro. 3
	Claudio Martino as Balvidio
	Francisco Plastino as Un viejo
	Juan Farías as Viejito del fogón
	Héctor Leporace as Un muchacho
	Enrique Vico Carré as Taboada
	José Trecenza as
	Carlos A. Gordillo as
	Katia Baré as

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