El habilitado
# El habilitado

El habilitado is a 1971 Argentine film. It was directed by Jorge Cedron, written by Miguel Briante and Cedron, and starred Héctor Alterio, Carlos Antón, and Billy Cedrón.

## Plot summary

The link between five employees of a Mar del Plata store who try to climb positions on their sad situation.

## Cast

* Héctor Alterio
* Carlos Antón
* Billy Cedrón
* Pablo Cedrón
* Gladys Cicagno
* Marta Gam
* José María Gutiérrez
* Claude Marting
* Norberto Pagani
* Ana María Picchio
* Alfredo Quesada
* Héctor Tealdi
* Walter Vidarte

## Reception

Director Cedrón was quoted in Clarín as saying, "They are not going to find in my film those vast theories about reality that some French filmmakers construct, I want them to find reality ... not a generalized, abstract reality ... In my film there is more room for the aesthetics of a Roberto Arlt, a Beckett let the signatures of some nouvelle addicts $wander".^{:265}$

A review in Clarín read: "Film language stripped of all mannerism, with stark images... each of the characters is precisely $defined."^{:265}$

Manrupe and Portela wrote in Un diccionario de films argentinos that it was a "[g]ood approach to an office story, its pettiness and $competitiveness."^{:265}$

