''Las furias'' (

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for "the furies") is a 1960 Argentine

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directed by Vlasta Lah, based on the 1950 play of the same name by Enrique Suárez de Deza. The first Argentine

sound film A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...

directed by a woman, it was the directorial debut for Lah, who became the only woman film director in 1960s

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. Its cast is almost exclusively female, starring

Mecha Ortiz Mecha Ortiz (née María Mercedes Varela Nimo Domínguez Castro; 1900–1987) was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1937 and 1981, during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema. At the 1944 Argentine Film Critics Association A ...

Olga Zubarry Olga Zubarry (30 October 1929 – 15 December 2012) was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1943 and 1997. She made over 60 appearances in film, spanning 6 decades of Argentine cinema, but is best known for her work during t ...

Aída Luz Aída Luz (born Aída da Luz Borbón, 10 February 1917 – 25 May 2006) was an Argentine actress who primarily worked during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema, performing on both stage and in films. She won multiple awards for her performanc ...

Alba Mujica Alba Mujica (née Alba Mugica; 1916 in Carhué – 1983 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine film and stage actress. She was the sister of actor and film director René Mugica. Her mother was the actress Emilia Rosales (Emilia Mugica). She was t ...

and

Elsa Daniel Elsa Daniel born Elsa Nilda Gómez Scapatti (13 November 1936 – 25 June 2017) was an Argentine film actress. She entered film in the 1954 classic '' The Grandfather'' and made some 30 appearances in film between then and 1987. Daniel, a blo ...

as characters whose name are not presented, being introduced as "the Mother", "the Lover", "the Wife", "the Sister" and "the Daughter", respectively. In 2022, it was included in the list of

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at number 50, a poll organized by the specialized magazines ''La vida útil'', ''Taipei'' and ''La tierra quema'', which was presented at the

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. Also in 2022, the film was included in Spanish magazine ''

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''s list of the 20 best Argentine films of all time.

Cast

as the Mother *

as the Lover *

as the Wife *

as the Sister *

as the Daughter *

Guillermo Bredeston Guillermo Juan Bredeston (24 August 1933 – 28 July 2018) was an Argentine stage, television and film actor.Aros p.166 Selected filmography * '' Pobres habrá siempre'' (1958) * '' The Dragonfly Is Not an Insect'' (1963) * '' Deliciously Amo ...

as the Boyfriend

References

External links

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