Acting
Narciso Ibáñez Menta devours the screen as the tormented poet.
Direction
Amadori's theatrical staging amplifies the melodrama to operatic heights.
Director
Luis César Amadori
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Almafuerte is Argentina's ultimate 'poeta maldito'—think Bukowski but with more tuberculosis and Catholic guilt.
Narciso Ibáñez Menta was so associated with horror roles that casting him as a tortured poet was deliberate subversion of his image.
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