Leonardo Favio renovó la plana del cine argentino durante las décadas de los sesenta y setenta junto a Fernando Birri, Gerardo Vallejo, Raimundo Gleyzer, Octavio Getino y Fernando “Pino” Solanas, conjugando neorrealismo y nouvelle vague. Actualmente se le recuerda más en su faceta de cantante que como cineasta.
Desde que el New York Film Festival le dedicara una retrospectiva parece que resurge el interés por su obra. Actualmente su obra está apareciendo en DVD.
A ver si aparece más nuevo cine argentino...
Juan Moreira es encarcelado por reclamar lo que le corresponde. Al ser liberado toma justicia por mano propia, y signa definitivamente su destino. Comienzan las persecuciones y se suceden las muertes. Se suma a las huestes de Alsina y entra en la "política de comité". Traicionado se pasa al bando del Gral. Mitre. En medio de estas luchas políticas, del fraude y de las traiciones, librado a su suerte, sólo le quedará la opción de la muerte.

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Dirección: Leonardo Favio
Asistencia de Dirección: Rodolfo Mórtola
Guión: Jorge Zuhair Jury / Leonardo Favio
Fotografía: Juan Carlos Desanzo
Cámara: Carmelo Lobótrico / Aldo Lobótrico / Lionel Lobótrico
Escenografía: Miguel Angel Lumaldo
Vestuario: Leonor Puga Sabaté
Música: Pocho Leyes / Luis María Serra
Montaje: Antonio Ripoll
Sonido: Miguel Babuini
Distribuidora: Contracuadro
Duración original: 105 min.
Fecha y Sala de estreno: 24/05/1973, Atlas
Intérpretes:
Rodolfo Bebán / Edgardo Suárez / Helena Titek / Alba Mujica / Carlos Muñoz / Eduardo Rudy / Jorge Villalba / Pablo Cumo / Elcira Olivera Garcés / Osvaldo de la Vega.
Enlace a Crònica de un niño solo :This colorful and accurate portrayal of the Argentine Wild West in the 19th Century focuses on the archetypal saga of Juan Moreira, a gaucho gone bad through no apparent fault of his own. Director Favio probes the legend to show that Moreira has no control over or vote in his fate and never attains any real understanding of the origins of the fury that turned him into an outcast, driving him to kill again and again. A pawn of his times and class, this famous outlaw always stands to lose, even during moments of apparent victory.
"Juan Moreira, by Leonardo Favio, is the best Argentine film to be screened probably since Favio’s last film over five years ago. The film is an accurate portrayal of the period, a summary of the struggles for supremacy in those Wild West days, seen through the archetypical story of a gaucho gone bad though no apparent fault of his own. Moreira, who rode the pampas in the latter half of the 19th century, does not understand the origins of his predicament, of the fury that turns him into an outcast, or why he is driven to kill again and again. His destiny is never his to shape; even during those moments of apparent victory he always stands to lose. Moreira becomes a protagonist of that same violence and lawlessness he has rebelled against…. In all, Leonardo Favio has made a film that at least rivals the best work by Brazilian director Glauber Rocha (Antonio das mortes), or any film made anywhere for that matter."
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