El Ayudante

El Ayudante
Directed byMario David
Written byMario David, Bernardo Kordon
Starring
CinematographyAníbal Di Salvo
Edited byOscar Pariso
Music byVíctor Proncet
Release date
  • 25 March 1971 (1971-03-25)
Running time
65 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

El Ayudante (English: The Helper) is a 1971 Argentine drama film directed and written by Mario David on his directorial debut,[1] and starring Pepe Soriano, José Slavin and Enrique Fava. The screenplay, about a truck driver who befriends a young deaf man, was written by David, based on the book El sordomudo by the author Bernardo Kordon.[2] The film premiered on 25 March 1971 in Buenos Aires, and was both a box office success and critically acclaimed.

  1. ^ Buenos Aires tango y lo demás, Issues 11-17. Ediciones 2 x 4. 1973.
  2. ^ Paz, Carlos (1999). Efemérides literarias (in Spanish). Ediciones Caligraf. p. 131. ISBN 9789879728017.