Three works from different creation periods. LA MALETA, Ruiz's very first directorial work, originally planned as a feature-length, then only 21 minutes long for financial reasons, is the story of a man with a suitcase in which a second smaller man is hidden. What would later characterize Ruiz's works, the surreal avant-garde directorial gesture, can already be encountered here. The film was considered lost for many years, but when the raw footage was rediscovered in 2008, Ruiz recut it. Then EL TANGO DEL VIUDO …, the next hopeful candidate for Ruiz's feature-length debut.
