''Beyond Oblivion'' () is a 1956 Argentine drama film directed by

Hugo del Carril Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana, otherwise known as Hugo del Carril (30 November 1912 – 13 August 1989 in Buenos Aires), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era. Early life Born in Buenos Aires, del Carril ...

, starring

Laura Hidalgo Laura Hidalgo (1 May 1927 – 18 November 2005) was an Argentine Actor, actress. Born in Chisinau, Bessarabia as Pesea Faerman Postolow, her family moved in 1931 to Buenos Aires , where she grew up. Hidalgo appeared in sixteen films in Mexico ...

and del Carril. It tells the story of a man who has lost the woman he loved and tries to turn another woman into her. The screenplay is loosely based on the novel '' Bruges-la-Morte'' by Georges Rodenbach.

Cast

as Blanca de Arellano / Mónica *

as Fernando de Arellano * Eduardo Rudy as Luis Marcel, alias Mauricio Pontier *

Gloria Ferrandiz Gloria Ferrandiz (1893 in Uruguay – 1970) was an Argentine actress of the classic Argentine cinema era. She starred in over 40 films, including the 1962 film ''Una Jaula no tiene secretos''. Selected filmography *''Las seis suegras de Barba ...

as Sabina, ama de llaves * Ricardo Galache as Médico professor Santillán * Pedro Laxalt as Médico doctor Don Álvaro, * Francisco López Silva as Esteban, mayordomo * Ricardo de Rosas as Bernabé, cochero * Víctor Martucci as Médico amigo del profesor Santillán *

Lili Gacel Lidia Ángela "Lili" Massaferro (23 November 1926 – 26 April 2001) was an Argentine actress and Montonero militant. Biography In the mid-1940s, Lili Massaferro studied Philosophy and Literature. She married very young to free herself from her ...

as Herminia, mucama

Release

The film was released theatrically in Argentina on 14 June 1956.

References

1956 films Argentine drama films Films based on Belgian novels Films directed by Hugo del Carril 1950s Spanish-language films 1956 drama films Argentine black-and-white films 1950s Argentine films {{1950s-Argentina-film-stub