The White Land

The White Land
Directed by	Hugo del Carril
Produced by	Miguel Ángel Puccio Hugo del Carril
Written by	Juan José Manauta (novel) Eduardo Borrás
Starring	Hugo del Carril Ricardo Trigo Amanda Silva Nora Palmer
Music by	Tito Ribero
Cinematography	Américo Hoss
Edited by	Gerardo Rinaldi Antonio Ripoll
Production company	Cinematigráfica L.E.O.
Release dates	February 19, 1959
Running time	78 minutes
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish

The White Land (Spanish:Las tierras blancas) is a 1959 Argentine drama film directed by Hugo del Carril and starring Del Carril, Ricardo Trigo and Amanda Silva.^[1] It is based on a novel by Juan José Manauta. It is set in a poor village in Santiago del Estero Province in Northern Argentina, where the semi-desert climate gives much of the landscape a whitish appearance alluded to in the title.

Cast

• Hugo del Carril as Natalio
• Ricardo Trigo as A Countryman
• Amanda Silva as The Mother
• Nora Palmer as Angelina
• Carlos Olivieri as Odiseo
• Raúl del Valle as The Bully
• Juan José Manauta as The Teacher
• Totón Podestá
• Antonio Capuano
• Mónica Cristina Ramos
• Juan Armendáriz
• David Socco

References

1. Cabrera p.139

Bibliography

• Borrás, Eduardo. Las aguas bajan turbias. Editorial Biblos, 2006.
• Cabrera, Gustavo. Hugo del Carril: un hombre de nuestro cine. Ediciones Culturales Argentinas, 1989.

External links

• The White Land at the Internet Movie Database