Alfonsina

Alfonsina

Pages from the life of Alfonsina Storni

1957 · 90 min · ★ 9.0 · Drama

Biography of Argentinean poet Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938), on of the most famous Latin American poets of the modernist period, who committed suicide by drowning in the sea in Mar del Plata.

Directed by Kurt Land · Written by José María Fernández Unsáin

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