''El amor y el espanto'' (''Love and Dread'') is a 2001

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 these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Juan Carlos Desanzo ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish language, Spanish and Manx language, Manx versions of ''John (given name), John''. The name is of Hebrew origin and has the meaning "God has been gracious." It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-spea ...

and written by

José Pablo Feinmann José Pablo Feinmann (29 March 1943 – 17 December 2021) was an Argentine philosopher, writer, playwright, and television host. He also penned several screenplays for domestic film production and international coproductions. Born to Abraham a ...

. It stars

Miguel Ángel Solá Miguel Ángel Solá Vehil (born May 14, 1950) is an Argentine actor who has made over 60 film appearances in film and TV in Argentina since 1973. He is traditionally typecast in villain roles. Biography Born in Buenos Aires, Solá belongs to th ...

, Blanca Oteyza and

Victor Laplace The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...

Cast

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( ; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish literature, Spanish-language and international literatur ...

* Blanca Oteyza as Beatriz Viterbo *

Víctor Laplace Víctor Laplace (born 30 May 1943) is an Argentina, Argentine film actor. Laplace was born in Tandil, Buenos Aires. The son of a watchmaking jeweler and a housewife. When he was 14, he started working as a metallurgist in a factory, there he al ...

as Carlos Daneri *

Norman Briski Naum Briski (born 2 January 1938), better known as Norman Briski, is an Argentine actor, director and playwright. Life and work Naum Briski was born on 2 January 1938 in Santa Fe. His Jewish Argentine family relocated to Córdoba, where B ...

as Erik Lönnrot *

Roberto Carnaghi Roberto Luis Carnaghi (born 13 May 1938) is an Argentine actor who has appeared in 44 films, about 60 plays, more than 50 television programmes, and nearly 100 advertisements. Biography Carnaghi was born on 13 May 1938, in Avellaneda. He studie ...

as Pierre Menard * Alicia Berdaxágar as Borges' Mother * Cristina Banegas as Owner of the boarding house * Roly Serrano as Alejandro Villari * Jean Pierre Reguerraz as

Otto Dietrich Jacob Otto Dietrich (31 August 1897 – 22 November 1952) was a German SS officer during the Nazi era, who served as the Press Chief of the Nazi regime and was a confidant of Adolf Hitler. Biography Otto Dietrich was born in Essen, he served ...

* Víctor Bruno as Bartender * José María López as Funes * Jorge Ochoa as Librarian

Production and release

The film premiered in

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on 17 May 2001. It was produced with an estimated budget of $650,000.

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