A young officer recently arrived from Buenos Aires takes charge of a military base on the edge of the desert.
Acting
Lautaro Murúa's simmering restraint before the inevitable explosion.
Cinematography
The desert as prison—shot in suffocating Academy ratio.
Direction
Neyra's single feature: 72 minutes of controlled collapse.
Director
Juan Carlos Neyra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Onganía's dictatorship, the film's military setting was a coded indictment of contemporary Argentine state violence. Neyra never directed again.
Nearly lost after 1976 coup—only rediscovered in 2015 when a Buenos Aires lab found a damaged 35mm print mislabeled as 'Frontera Sur.'
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