Ernesto Sábato Movies

A painter becomes obsessed and begins an affair with a mysterious woman who was touched deeply by one of his works.

Adaptation of Ernesto Sábato's work, directed by José Luis Cuerda Juan Pablo Castel, a moderately famous painter, visits Larrea's office to tell him how he met María Iribarne at a painting exhibition. He recounts why he followed her upon realizing she understood his painting, and why he killed...

A young painter suspects the woman he loves, and his obsession slowly leads him down a tortuous path where madness and death become intertwined. Adaptation of Ernesto Sábato’s masterpiece: The Tunnel.

Documentary on State terrorism during the last military dictatorship in Argentina, made in its aftermath. Invited by the Goethe-Institut to hold a workshop with young film students, Schroeter contrasts the official statements of the regime with the testimony of victims, dissidents and relatives of...

A man becomes convinced that he is being persecuted by a conspiracy of blind people.

A lonely photographer gradually develops a rather unhealthy obsession with a young woman he once met by sheer chance.

A threatened financier is impersonated during a train ride by an identical-looking salesman.

In 1997 the Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birri returned to his home country to film a documentary on the 30th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara and the relevance of utopias at that time. Carmen Guarini decided to record those moments. A rough edit of this film was hidden away on a fragile VHS...

The life of the remarkable Argentine writer Ernesto Sábato, seen and narrated by the filmmaker who knows him best: his son. Featuring unpublished or rarely seen material, fragments of family recordings shot in 8mm, photographs, videos, and films made by Mario Sábato from 1962 to 2008, this...