The Dependent

Mar 1, 1969

1h 27m

★ 7.0

Overview

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Contracuadro

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Cast

Fernández

Walter Vidarte

Señorita Plasini

Graciela Borges

Señora Plasini

Nora Cullen

Don Vila

Fernando «Tacholas» Iglesias

Estanislao

Martín Andrade

Fernández boy

José E. Felicetti

Linda Peretz

(voice)

Leonardo Favio

(voice)

Edgardo Suárez

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