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El Extraño caso del hombre y la bestia (1951)

El Extraño caso del hombre y la bestia poster
Original title
El extraño caso del hombre y la bestia
Directed by
Mario Soffici
Genre
horror
Country
Argentina
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man wrestles with a dark alter ego that brings out his most primal and violent impulses. The story follows him as the battle between his respectable self and this monstrous side grows more desperate.

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What happens

The strange case of the man and the beast (Spanish: El extraño caso del hombre y la bestia) is a 1951 Argentine film directed by Mario Soffici during the classical era of Argentine cinema. The screenplay was written by Ulyses Petit de Murat, the photography by Antonio Merayo, the scenography by Gori Muñoz, and the musical direction by Silvio Vernazza. Is an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson The strange case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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