The Party Is Over 1960

Overview

The Party Is Over is a 1960 Argentine drama film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and released in Spanish as Fin de fiesta. The film was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. It depicts the political corruption in Argentina during the 1930s, a period known as the Infamous Decade. The routine drama is set in Argentina during the 1930s and draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The grandfather in the family exercises a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home, but the situation shifts as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy.