''Alma en pena'' (

English language English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the ...

:''Soul in Pain'') is a 1928 Argentine film directed by Julio Irigoyen. The film was one of Irigoyen's earliest

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...

s. The film is about

tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combina ...

dancing, one of the director's many works in this field.

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IMDB listingEl Síndrome de Alma en Pena
1928 films 1920s Spanish-language films Argentine black-and-white films 1928 drama films Tango films Argentine silent films Films directed by Julio Irigoyen Argentine drama films Silent drama films {{silent-drama-film-stub