Love and Dread

Love and Dread

115 mins | Drama, Thriller, History | May 17, 2001

Borges falls in love with Beatriz Viterbo, a high-class young woman, who decides to marry a government official who makes Borges strongly suspect him, speculating that he is a sadist who is slowly poisoning Beatriz. To save Beatriz Borges, he decides to turn to a detective, who becomes the hinge of an unthinkable story.

Love and Dread

115 mins | Drama, Thriller, History | May 17, 2001

Love and Dread
Borges falls in love with Beatriz Viterbo, a high-class young woman, who decides to marry a government official who makes Borges strongly suspect him, speculating that he is a sadist who is slowly poisoning Beatriz. To save Beatriz Borges, he decides to turn to a detective, who becomes the hinge of an unthinkable story.
Producers
Original title El amor y el espanto
Directors Valentina Llorens, Antonio Barrio, Carlos Jaureguialzo, Juan Carlos Desanzo
Writers José Pablo Feinmann

Cast

Miguel Ángel Solá

as Jorge Luis Borges

Blanca Oteyza

as Beatriz Viterbo

Víctor Laplace

as Carlos Daneri

Norman Briski

as Erik Lönnrot

Roberto Carnaghi

as Pierre Menard

Alicia Berdaxagar

as Leonor, Borges's mother

Cristina Banegas

as Boarding house owner

Roly Serrano

as Alejandro Villari

Jean Pierre Reguerraz

as Otto Dietrich

Víctor Bruno

as Bartender

Jorge Ochoa

as Librarian