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The Crime of Oribe (1950)

The Crime of Oribe poster
Original title
El crimen de Oribe
Directed by
Leopoldo Torres Ríos, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Genre
drama film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man becomes entangled in a strange and unsettling situation after meeting a mysterious woman. The story unfolds in a dreamlike way, blurring the line between reality and fantasy.

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What happens

The Crime of Oribe (Spanish: El crimen de Oribe) is a 1950 Argentine fantasy drama film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and Leopoldo Torres Ríos and starring Roberto Escalada, Carlos Thompson and María Concepción César. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carlos T. Dowling. It is based on the story El perjurio de la nieve by Adolfo Bioy Casares. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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