''Beyond Oblivion'' () is a 1956 Argentine

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from the classical period, directed by

Hugo del Carril Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana, otherwise known as Hugo del Carril (30 November 1912 – 13 August 1989), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. Early life Born in Buenos Aires, del Ca ...

and starring

Laura Hidalgo Laura Hidalgo (1 May 1927 – 18 November 2005) was an Argentine actress of the classical era of Argentine cinema. Biography Born in Chișinău, Bessarabia as Pesea Faerman Postolow, her family moved in 1931 to Buenos Aires, where she grew up. H ...

and del Carril. It tells the story of a man who has lost the woman he loved and tries to turn another woman into her. The screenplay is loosely based on the novel ''

Bruges-la-Morte ''Bruges-la-Morte'' ( French; ''The Dead ity ofBruges'') is a short novel by the Belgian author Georges Rodenbach, first published in 1892. The novel is notable for two reasons: it was the archetypal Symbolist novel, and was the first work of f ...

'' by

Georges Rodenbach Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach (16 July 1855 – 25 December 1898) was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist. Biography Georges Rodenbach was born in Tournai to a French mother and a German father from the Rhineland (Andernach). He w ...

Cast

as Blanca de Arellano / Mónica *

as Fernando de Arellano * Eduardo Rudy as Luis Marcel, alias Mauricio Pontier *

Gloria Ferrandiz Gloria Ferrandiz (1893 in Uruguay – 1970) was an Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of ...

as Sabina, ama de llaves * Ricardo Galache as Médico professor Santillán *

Pedro Laxalt Pedro Ascarateil Laxalt (15 May 1900 – 31 August 1965) was an Argentine actor of Basque descent from Montevideo Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 cens ...

as Médico doctor Don Álvaro, * Francisco López Silva as Esteban, mayordomo * Ricardo de Rosas as Bernabé, cochero * Víctor Martucci as Médico amigo del profesor Santillán * Lili Gacel as Herminia, mucama

Release

The film was released theatrically in Argentina on 14 June 1956.

References

1956 films Argentine drama films Films based on Belgian novels Films directed by Hugo del Carril 1950s Spanish-language films 1956 drama films Argentine black-and-white films 1950s Argentine films {{1950s-Argentina-film-stub