| 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 |
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| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
Circe is a 1964 Argentine film directed by Manuel Antín. It was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival.
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]