Released in 1967 amidst Argentina’s turbulent political landscape (just a year before the 1968 Cordobazo uprisings), El silencio de un hombre follows a contract killer—named only “El Hombre”—who lives by a strict code: never speak unnecessarily, never form attachments, and never deviate from a contract. The film’s minimal dialogue, stark black-and-white cinematography, and Buenos Aires noir aesthetic mark it as a unique hybrid of French existentialism (Melville’s Le Samouraï , released the same year) and Argentine New Wave realism.