Chronicle of a Boy Alone

Crónica de un niño solo
Directed byLeonardo Favio
Written byLeonardo Favio
Zuhair Jury
Produced byLuis DeStefano
StarringDiego Puente
CinematographyIgnacio Souto
Edited byGerardo Rinaldi
Antonio Ripoll
Release date
  • 5 May 1965 (1965-05-05)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

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.

It was selected as the greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll conducted by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000.[1] In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida util, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 5 position.[2]

  1. ^ "Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino". La mirada cautiva (3). Buenos Aires: Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken: 6–14. 2000. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022 – via Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 on Google Drive.
  2. ^ "Top 100" (in Spanish). Encuesta de cine argentino 2022. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.