“We all have a destiny. I was born a thief.” With this line, director Luis Ortega’s new film “El Angel,” a biographical drama about Argentina’s most notorious criminal, Carlos Robledo Puch, begins.

Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” always wanted to be a gangster. In “El Angel,” wanting is beside the point. Introducing himself, Carlitos (Lorenzo Ferro) explains that it was his destiny to be a thief.

The city of Elgin is commissioning a replica of Mexico City’s famous “Ángel de la Independencia” sculpture to be built for its La Fiesta de Elgin celebration in September. Elgin-based ACME Design Inc.

Carlitos is a seventeen-year-old with blond curls, a baby face, and major swagger when he embarks on a crime spree fueled by jealousy. He becomes increasingly violent until he is finally apprehended ...