The young widow of the viceroy of Peru, facing the dismal prospect of either a convent or a marriage of convenience, sets out to conquer a handsome officer, pretending she’s a duende, a ghost.
Acting
Delia Garcés commits fully to ghost-widow absurdity.
Costume
Colonial Peruvian opulence that screams 'I have a convent to avoid.'
Director
Luis Saslavsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Pedro Calderón de la Barca's 1629 play, this film relocates Spanish Golden Age theater to colonial Peru, a fascinating transplant of European aristocratic anxiety to Latin American cinematic golden age.
Luis Saslavsky, an Argentine director of Russian-Jewish descent, was known for literary adaptations that made high culture commercially viable—this was peak studio-system ambition in 1940s Latin America.
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