Circe (film)

Circe is a 1964 Argentine film directed by Manuel Antín. It was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival.

Directed byManuel Antín

Written byManuel Antín
Julio Cortázar
Héctor Grossi

Based on

"Circe"
by Julio Cortázar

Produced bySalvador Salías

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Circe
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Directed by	Manuel Antín
Written by	Manuel Antín Julio Cortázar Héctor Grossi
Based on	"Circe" by Julio Cortázar
Produced by	Salvador Salías
Starring	Graciela Borges Alberto Argibay
Cinematography	Américo Hoss
Edited by	José Serra
Music by	Adolfo Mo rpurgo
Release date	1964 (1964)
Running time	80 minute
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish

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The film is based on a short story by Julio Cortázar, published in 1951. Its main theme is about perverse sexual gratification in a repressed Catholic environment. Delia Mañara is notorious in her quarter of Buenos Aires for the mysterious deaths of two of her fiancés. She lives in a twilight world and gains most satisfaction through the exercise of power over others. It emerges that she killed the two men by poisoning them with the sweets she makes; when this fails with her third fiancé, he is freed from her fatal attraction by the knowledge.^[1]