Chronicle of a Boy Alone
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Release date 5 May 1965 Writer Leonardo Favio, Jorge Zuhair Jury Similar movies Mind the Gap , Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty , Deuda , Inequality for All , Requiem for the American Dream , Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chronicle of a Boy Alone (Spanish: Crónica de un niño solo), also known as Chronicle of a Lonely Child, is a 1965 Argentine film directed by Leonardo Favio. It won the Silver Condor Award for Best Film.
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Plot
Polin is an eleven-year-old troublemaker in reform school for unknown reasons. After suffering from harsh treatment at the hands of the staff, Polin punching one of the supervisors in the face. He is sent to the police station where he is locked up in a cell. Polin breaks out and returns to his hometown, a rural fishing village, where he meets up with his best friend and falls back into his old routine—smoking, pickpocketing, shoplifting, skinny dipping with his friends and picking fights with the neighborhood bullies—all the while trying to avoid a run-in with the law.
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Controversy
The content is about children but at the time of its release in 1965 the film was considered by many as a critique on Argentina's fascist regime. Also, the film's brutal and realistic depiction of Argentina's state-run orphanages caused a great deal of controversy.
The film contains a controversial scene containing extensive, explicit nudity involving several young Argentine boys skinny dipping.
This controversy led the Argentine Government to ban the film shortly after its release. The film remained banned for over thirty years.
Release
In 1996, the film was released on VHS by Award Films International, and later on DVD.
References
Chronicle of a Boy Alone WikipediaChronicle of a Boy Alone IMDb Chronicle of a Boy Alone themoviedb.org