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Rosaura at 10 O'Clock (1958)

Rosaura at 10 O'Clock poster
Original title
Rosaura a las 10
Directed by
Mario Soffici
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A lonely painter becomes obsessed with a woman he sees through his window. He writes letters to her as if they are lovers, but a murder investigation reveals a complicated web of lies and obsession.

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What happens

Rosaura at 10 O'Clock (Spanish: Rosaura a las diez) is a 1958 Argentine crime drama mystery film directed by Mario Soffici and starring Juan Verdaguer and Susana Campos. It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on a 1955 novel of the same name written by Marco Denevi. It was selected as the fourth greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll conducted by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida util, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 21 position. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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