title: El habilitado
text: # 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 $competitiveness."^{:265}$
  
  