The Paper Man (Spanish: El hombre de papel) is a 1963 Mexican drama film directed by Ismael Rodríguez.
[1] A homeless deaf mute man named Adán is a waste picker who one day stumbles upon 10,000 pesos.
As he marvels in his new fortune he meets many characters who now accept him trying to get their part of the money.
Eventually Adán buys a puppet named Titino from an unscrupulous ventriloquist, thinking he will have a companion with whom to talk.
Ignacio López Tarso won the Golden Gate Award for Best Actor at the San Francisco International Film Festival,[2] and Alida Valli was nominated for the Best Motion Picture Actress at the Golden Globes.