The black-and-white photo shows a woman's eyes. She is wearing makeup and has her eyes wide open.

© Argentina Sono Film

Más allá del olvido

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Sun 25.10.26, 11:00

Si̇nema Transtopia

The wealthy Fernando de Arellano loses his young wife Blanca to a fatal illness. After a long period of depression, he meets Mónica who looks identical to Blanca. They get married but, in the meantime, Mónica’s ex-lover and pimp, Luis, plots revenge against her. The film bears striking similarities to Hitchcock films such as ‘Rebecca’ and, in particular, ‘Vertigo’ which was made two years after Hugo del Carril’s film. While, on a narrative level, ‘Beyond Oblivion’ delves into the risks of extreme grief, more generally, the film highlights the pitfalls of asymmetrical film histories and Western-centric canonizations which obscure potential transnational interrelations and influences. For a long time, the film was only accessible via a VHS copy, which further underscores the urgency of its restoration.

‘Beyond Oblivion’, AR 1956, director: Hugo del Carril, 94 min, OV with EN subtitles
Introduction: Fernando Madedo (Sociedad por el Patrimonio Audiovisual)
Tickets € 10
When Sun 25.10.26, 11:00
Where
Available online and at the box office from October

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Film Info

D: Hugo de Carril
W: Eduardo Borrás
C: Alberto Etchebehere
E: Jorge Gárate, Higinio Vecchione
M: Tito Ribero
A: Laura Hidalgo, Hugo del Carril, Gloria Ferrandiz, Ricardo Galache, Pedro Laxalt, Francsico López Silva
P: Argentina Sono Film
Prod: Hugo del Carril
WP: June 1956

Original format: 35mm, b/w
Screening print: 4K DCP, 94 min, Argentina Sono Film

Restoration Information

The film was restored in 2025 in 4K by Cubic Restoration, in collaboration with the Sociedad por el Patrimonio Audiovisual (Society for Audiovisual Heritage) and with the support of the cultural patronage program of the Ministry of Culture of Buenos Aires. Coordinated by Fernando Madedo and supervised by Luis Alberto Scalella, the restoration was undertaken from the original 35mm negatives and first-generation 35mm internegative which had been preserved in the archive of the film’s owner, Argentina Sono Film.

Fernando Madedo

is managing director of the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA), the Ibero-American Federation of Film and Audiovisual Producers, as well as president of the Sociedad por el Patrimonio Audiovisual (Society for Audiovisual Heritage) in Buenos Aires and head of its Latam Classics label. He previously led Argentina’s National Film Archive and Image Library, Cinemateca y Archivo de la Imagen Nacional (CINAIN). The coordinator of the first Latin American edition of the Film Preservation and Restoration Summer School (in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, L’Immagine Ritrovata and the International Federation of Film Archives, FIAF), he also established the diploma in Audiovisual Preservation and Restoration (DiPRA) in Argentina. His work has been presented at festivals and venues including Cannes, Berlin, Mar del Plata, BAFICI in Buenos Aires, Lumière in Lyon and MoMA in New York.

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In 2026, the Deutsche Kinemathek’s film heritage festival explores risk in cinema. We are examining the perils facing film producers and distributors; looking at the challenges encountered in archives and during restoration work; and showing films about characters who have everything at stake. These are layers of risk that often overlap and are mutually reinforcing.

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