Mario Pardo was born on 16 April 1944 in Berga, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He is an actor and art director, known for The Platform (2019), Fortunata y Jacinta (1980) and Close Your Eyes (2023).
A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
In a prison where inmates are fed on a descending platform, those on the upper levels take more than their fair share while those below are left to starve on scraps and one man decides to change the system.
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
