''Una viuda difícil'' () is a

1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...

Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...

directed by

Fernando Ayala Fernando Ayala (2 July 1920 – 11 September 1997) was an Argentina, Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer of the classic era. He is widely considered one of the most important Argentine film directors and producers in the hi ...

and written by

Conrado Nalé Roxlo Conrado Nalé Roxlo (February 15, 1898 – July 2, 1971) was an Argentina, Argentine writer, journalist and humorist, who was born and died in Buenos Aires. He was an author of poetry, plays, film scripts and pastiches in prose, and also the ...

, based on his homonymous theatre play. It stars

Alba Arnova Alba Arnova (15 March 1930 – 11 March 2018) was an Italian-Argentine ballerina and actress. Life and career Born in Buenos Aires as Alba Fossati, daughter of two Italian emigrants, Arnova studied piano at the Conservatory and enrolled in th ...

Alfredo Alcón Alfredo Félix Alcón (; 3 March 1930 – 11 April 2014) was an Argentine theatre and film actor born in Buenos Aires. Widely regarded as one of the best and most important Argentine actors of the 20th century. He worked in more than 50 movies s ...

and

Ricardo Castro Ríos Ricardo Castro Ríos (April 2, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was a classic Spanish - Argentine film actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in ...

. Music was composed by

Ástor Piazzolla Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (, ; March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed '' nuevo tango'', incorporating elements fr ...

and Vassili Lambrinos created the choreography for the

black and white film Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as greyscale in technical settings. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, a ...

Synopsis

In the Colonial Buenos Aires a beautiful widow marries an outcast man just to spite someone else.

Cast

* Joaquín Pibernat *

Francisco López Silva Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Meaning of the name Francisco In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Commu ...

* Mariela Reyes * María Esther Podestá * Manuel Alcón *

Lucía Barause ''Lucía'' is a 1968 Cuban black-and-white drama film directed by Humberto Solás, and written by Solás, Julio García Espinosa and Nelson Rodríguez. It was the winner of the Golden Prize and the Prix FIPRESCI at the 6th Moscow International ...

* Marcela Sola * Carlos Barbetti * Jorge Hilton * Luis Orbegoso *

Luis de Lucía Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

* Francisco Audenino * Rafael Diserio * Adolfo Gallo * Manuel Ochoa * Sergio Villamil * Mario Savino * Alberto Quiles * Irma Villamil * Néstor Pérez Fernández * Amalia Lozano * Angélica Marina * Julián Pérez Ávila * Domingo Garibotto

External links

* 1957 films 1950s Spanish-language films Argentine black-and-white films Argentine drama films Films directed by Fernando Ayala 1950s Argentine films Films scored by Astor Piazzolla {{1950s-Argentina-film-stub