| Dark River | |
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| Directed by | Hugo del Carril |
| Screenplay by | Eduardo Borrás |
| Based on | El río oscuro by Alfredo Varela |
| Produced by | Hugo del Carril |
| Starring | Hugo del Carril Adriana Benetti Raúl del Valle |
| Cinematography | José María Beltrán |
| Edited by | Gerardo Rinaldi |
| Music by | Tito Ribero |
| Distributed by | Cinematográfica Cinco Del Carril-Barbieri |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
Dark River (Spanish: Las aguas bajan turbias) is a 1952 Argentine drama film directed by Hugo del Carril, starring del Carril, Adriana Benetti and Raúl del Valle. It is based on a novel by Alfredo Varela. The storyline is about exploitation of peons, and the film has a populist message that ties in with the director's sympathy for Peronism.[1] The film won the Silver Condor Award for Best Film.
It was selected as the sixth greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll conducted by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 1977, while it ranked 4th in the 1984 edition and 3rd in the 2000 edition.[2] 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 14 position.[3]
- ^ Rist, Peter H. (2014). Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-8108-6082-7.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Top 100" (in Spanish). Encuesta de cine argentino 2022. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.