Feature film
Así te deseo
Belisario García Villar · 1948
Synopsis
A woman agrees to take the place of a wife who died seven years earlier, among those who lost her. The film adapts an Italian play in which a stranger, taken by a husband for his missing wife, lets herself become the woman she is expected to be, without it ever being known whether she truly is. Roberto Airaldi plays the lead role, with Anaclara Bell, Daniel de Alvarado, Carmen Idal and Angelina Pagano.
Context
The film adapts a play by an Italian playwright. It is shot in Uruguayan studios, at a time when Argentina lacks film stock, and passes for a co-production, which gives it access to the Argentine distribution requirement; most of the actors and technicians are Argentine. Written and produced by its director, with photography by Hugo Chiesa and editing by Nicolás Proserpio, it was released on 18 February 1948 and runs for 85 minutes.
Who it is for
A drama in Spanish, eighty-five minutes long, adapted from Italian theatre and shot in a studio.
Prizes and reception
The critic Calki, in El Mundo, judges it mannered and bombastic, a pale reflection of the play's ideas on reality and illusion.