El Canto del cisne (1945)

Original title

El canto del cisne

Directed by

Carlos Hugo Christensen

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 49m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young composer and an older woman enter a relationship that ends in tragedy. The story follows their doomed connection.

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What happens

Swan Song (Spanish: El canto del cisne) is a 1945 Argentine romantic melodrama film of the classical era of Argentine cinema, directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen and starring Mecha Ortiz, Roberto Escalada and Miguel Gómez Bao. The film portrays the ultimately tragic relationship between a young composer and a more mature woman. Her performance won Ortiz the Argentine Film Academy's Silver Condor Award for Best Actress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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