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| native_name    = {{infobox name module|es|Hombre de la Esquina Rosada}}
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| director       = [[René Múgica]]
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| released       = {{Film date|1962}}
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'''''Man on Pink Corner''''' ({{langx|es|Hombre de la Esquina Rosada}}) is a 1962 [[Argentina|Argentine]] film directed by [[René Múgica]], based on the [[Man on Pink Corner|story]] by [[Jorge Luis Borges]].<ref name="Plazaola">Plazaola, Luis Trelles (1989) ''South American Cinema'', University of Puerto Rico Press, {{ISBN|978-0-8477-2011-8}}, p. 143</ref> It was shown at the [[Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]] and [[San Sebastián International Film Festival|San Sebastián]] film festivals.<ref name="Plazaola" />
Borges viewed the film favourably, commenting "he did a good job with the possibilities provided by the plot".<ref name="Burgin">Burgin, Richard (1998) ''Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations'', University Press of Mississippi, {{ISBN|978-1-57806-075-7}}, p. 64</ref>
In a survey of the [[The 100 Greatest Films of Argentine Cinema|100 greatest films of Argentine cinema]] carried out by the [[Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken]] in 2000, the film reached the 17th position.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITZbOc_XZnbJ1W2a9Lq9Zk8xJRrWrzPg/view|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221121182959/https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITZbOc_XZnbJ1W2a9Lq9Zk8xJRrWrzPg/view|archive-date=21 November 2022|accessdate=21 November 2022|year=2000|issue=3|work=La mirada cautiva|location=Buenos Aires|publisher=[[Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken]]|via=[[The 100 Greatest Films of Argentine Cinema|Encuesta de cine argentino 2022]] on [[Google Drive]]|pages=6–14|title=Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino}}</ref> In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines ''La vida útil'', ''Taipei'' and ''La tierra quema'', presented at the [[Mar del Plata International Film Festival]], the film reached the 48th position.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://encuestadecineargentino.com/top-100/|title=Top 100|language=es|accessdate=13 November 2022|date=11 November 2022|publisher=[[The 100 Greatest Films of Argentine Cinema|Encuesta de cine argentino 2022]]}}</ref>
==Cast==
* [[Francisco Petrone]] - Francisco Real, "El Corralero"
* [[Walter Vidarte]] - El Oriental
* [[Susana Campos]] - La Lujanera
* [[Jacinto Herrera]] - Rosendo Juárez, "El Pegador"
* [[Berta Ortegosa]] - Julia
* [[Jorge de la Riestra]] - Eleodoro, "El Turco"
* [[María Esther Podestá]] - Casera de la pensión
* [[María Esther Buschiazzo]] - Madre de Nicolás Fuentes
* [[Mario Savino]] - Cosme
* [[Juan Carlos García Galván|Juan Carlos Galván]] - Juan
* [[Ricardo Argemí]] - Don Carmelo
* [[Alberto Barcel]] - Comisario
* [[Isidro Fernán Valdez]] - Tío de Nicolás Fuentes
* [[Adolfo Linvel]] - Nicanor
* [[Tino Pascali]] - Intendente
* Andrés Rivero - Padre de Nicolás Fuentes
* Claudio Lucero - Agente Medina
* Manuel Rosón - Ramón Santoro
* [[Susana Brunetti]] - Mujer en pulpería
* [[Zulma Grey]] - Prostituta
* [[Aída Villadeamigo]] - Florista
* [[Mercedes Escribano]] - Vieja
* [[Rafael Chumbita]]
* [[Délfor Medina]] - Comisario 2
* [[Rafael Diserio]] - Carrero
* [[Ovidio Fuentes]] - Puestero
* [[Héctor Fuentes]] - Muchacho en pulpería
* Reina del Carmen
* Mariel Comber - Mujer en pulpería
==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0054986}}
*[http://shipwrecklibrary.com/borges/borges-film-hombre/ Hombre de la esquina rosada] on "The Garden of Forking Paths" Borges site.
[[Category:1962 films]]
[[Category:1960s Spanish-language films]]
[[Category:Argentine black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by Jorge Luis Borges]]
[[Category:Argentine crime drama films]]
[[Category:Films directed by René Múgica]]
[[Category:1960s Argentine films]]
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