The Dog Pound

Story

Synopsis

David, has just failed his university examinations and has one year to re-write them. Ruben, his father, a pragmatic and successful businessman, has been paying for David's education, the pursuit of which he considers a waste of time. Ruben wants David to work and make himself useful and he strikes a deal with him: David can stay and study for his exams at Ruben's house in La Perrera, a coastal resort town, while he builds a house for himself. And so, a year-long adventure starts for David, an urban intellectual, in the isolated La Perrera and among its off-season residents who include nearly as many dogs as men, where the only women are either pregnant or prostitutes, and where no one wants to work and things are done out of friendship more than anything else.

Director

Manolo Nieto

Writers

Manolo Nieto

Language

Spanish; Castilian

Country

Argentina, Canada, Spain, Uruguay

Release date

5 May 2006

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Martín Adjemián

  Rúben

• Sofía Dabarca

  Evelin

• 

  Daniel Hendler

• 

  Andrés Pazos

• Pablo Riera

  David

• Gabriel Pellejero

  Diariero

• Miguel Coitiño

  Eddie

• Chino Carlitos

  Chino

• Inés Casella

  Claudia

• Andrés Catau

  Capataz

• Marcelo Cetrulo

  Kalule

• Ramón Da Costa

  Viejo del carro