The Little Flat
(El Pisito)
Marco Ferreri, Isidoro Martínez Ferri / Spain / 1958 / 80 min
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About the Directors
Marco Ferreri was Born in Milan in 1928 and started as director in Spain. His films, black humor-tinged, has addressed the alienation of modern man. Films as controversial as The Buggy, Dillinger is dead, La grande Bouffe o La casa del sorriso which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Isidoro Martínez Ferri, Barcelona (1925) is well know by his works in Spanish terror such a Face of Terror or Cruzada en el Mar.