Presented in a completely restored 35mm print from UCLA Film & Television Archive, with funding provided by the Film Noir Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Charitable Trust (The HFPA Trust). Screenplay by Sergio Leonardo, from the novel by Adolfo Jasca. This brilliant noir won Argentina’s Silver Condor Award as the best film of 1956—yet it remains unknown in the rest of the world. Which is a crime, because Los Tallos Amargos is one of the best noir-drenched crime films of the 1950s—maybe ever. A Buenos Aires newspaper reporter (Carlos Cores) partners in a correspondence-school scam with a clever Hungarian (Vassili Lambrinos). But as suspicions rise about the Hungarian’s true motives, one man is driven to commit the perfect crime—with stunning and tragic results. Featuring an inventive score by Astor Piazzolla, the greatest Argentine musician of the twentieth century.