Anteojito y Antifaz, mil intentos y un invento

Anteojito y Antifaz, mil intentos y un invento
Directed by	Manuel García Ferré
Produced by	Julio Korn
Written by	Manuel García Ferré
Starring	Marión Tiffemberg Pedro Mansilla
Music by	Néstor D'Alessandro Roberto Lar
Cinematography	Osvaldo Domínguez
Edited by	Silvestre Murúa
Production company	Producciones García Ferré
Distributed by	Buena Vista International (Argentina)
Release date	14 September 1972
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish

Anteojito y Antifaz, mil intentos y un invento (English title: Anteojito and Antifaz, A Thousand Attempts and One Invention) is a 1972 Argentine animated comedy-drama film written and directed by Manuel García Ferré. The film premiered in Argentina on September 14, 1972. It was re-released on July 12, 2001.

Plot

Anteojito is a poor orphan 10-years-old boy who lives with his Uncle Antifaz in an apartment house in a city named Villa Trompeta. Uncle Antifaz tries to invent an invisibility formula with Anteojito’s help, and Cachavacha, a witch and Uncle Antifaz's neighbor who lives in the apartment right under his, tries to steal it as revenge for to his explosions destroying her apartment. Anteojito sells some balloons and meets his friend Buzoncito, a little red mailbox. The balloons he was selling escape when he argues with a group of brats who mocked him. The circus comes to town and he helps out a friendly clown and his sick daughter by posing as a second, singing, clown. Two con men named Bodega and Rapiño are impressed by Anteojito’s singing and pose as talent agents who can get him lucrative theatrical and operatic engagements, being hired by Cachavacha to have him away from Uncle Antifaz. Bonaño, a good-natured cat (tall with funny hat), takes him to Master Meethoven, a Beethoven-esque feline music teacher. Anteojito becomes a star, but he unknownly lets success go to his head, as he snubs Uncle Antifaz, and dismisses Bodega and Rapiño, who begin fight over the money. The distraught Antifaz gives up his experiments, which are immediately continued disastrously by Cachavacha, who ultimately dies on an explosion. Anteojito is told a story within the film (based on a separate book by García Ferré, El Pararrayos o Historia de una Ambición) and at last realizes that wealth is worthless without true friendship. He returns to being a little boy living with Uncle Antifaz, who throws away the invisibility formula he has finally invented.

Production Staff

See also

• List of animated feature-length films
• El Apóstol (first Argentine animated feature film, 1917)

External links

• Anteojito y Antifaz, mil intentos y un invento on IMDb