Episode description

Born to a film-making family, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson was the first Argentine film director to be critically acclaimed outside the country. Before he died in 1978 from cancer, aged 54, Torre Nilsson worked alongside his wife Beatriz Guido, a published author, on many of the scripts which he turned into successful films. One of them, Martín Fierro (1968), is about the main character of Argentina's national poem. In today's programme Rana Mitter and his guests discuss another - Hand in the Trap - a psychological coming of age story which won the FIPRESCI prize at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Elsa Daniel discovers the reasons for her aunt shutting herself away from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her.

Professor Maria Delgado is Director of Research a Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

María Blanco is Associate Professor in Spanish American Literature at the University of Oxford

Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University

Jordana Blejmar is a lecturer in Visual Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Liverpool

Producer: Ruth Watts