El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire). 1952. Directed by Román Viñoly Barreto

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El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire). 1953. Argentina. Produced and directed by Román Viñoly Barreto

El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire). 1952. Argentina. Directed by Román Viñoly Barreto. Screenplay by Viñoly Barreto, Alberto Etchebehere. With Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nathán Pinzón. In Spanish; English subtitles. 90 min.

“Loosely based on Fritz Lang’s M, The Black Vampire is one of the weirdest emblems of Argentina’s infatuation with film noir during the late 1940s and early 1950s. An orgiastic play of shadow and light, a gallery of eccentrics including dwarves and a victimized blind man, a chase in the sewers (quoting The Third Man), and Nathan Pinzón, a flabby stand-in for Peter Lorre, make this an irresistible, regionalist take on a film classic” (Edgardo Cozarinsky).

35mm print courtesy of the Film Noir Foundation Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

This film accompanies Carte Blanche: Edgardo Cozarinsky on Argentine Cinema.

Past events

Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Fri, Jun 8, 2018, 4:30 p.m.

Introduced by Edgardo Cozarinsky

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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