Tesoro mio (‘my treasure’) is a free reconstruction of a bank robbery in Argentina in 1994, that left the police puzzled for a long time. Overnight, the forty-year-old security guard Mario Fendrich decides to rob the bank where he had worked for 22 years. This act, doing something that everyone dreams about at times, gives him the status of a national hero. Yet his deed is not heroic. This urge for freedom is motivated by frustration at his resentful and unreliable wife, his griping lover who asks the impossible of him, his intrusive friends he has had enough of and the grind of his boring life as a bank employee. In other words, the hero is in an ordinary midlife crisis.In a very humorous way, Tesoro mio shows the chain of blunders and nerve-wracking events that lead up to the notorious robbery, making the act of the ‘respectable father’ more comprehensible. Apart from the familiar situations, the dialogues are also of a dry ordinariness (daughter: ‘Dad, why do you so love old films?’Mario: ‘Because I am old.’), without this leading to crude slapstick.With his great experience producing short films, the humour is in safe hands with Sergio Diego Bellotti. Tesoro mio is his début as director.
