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So Feared a Hell

1980 film by Raúl de la Torre

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ624841 ↗
Source-derived summary

So Feared a Hell (Spanish: El infierno tan temido) is an Argentine drama film from 1980 directed by Raúl de la Torre and starring Graciela Borges and Alberto de Mendoza. It is based on the eponymous short story by Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti. The film was released on August 7, 1980, and won the Silver Condor Award for Best Film in 1981.

Summary

A young woman sends her ex-husband and other acquaintances cruel photographs of herself engaging in sexual relationships with other men. The resulting degradation pushes him into a desperate situation.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “So Feared a Hell” as 1980 film by Raúl de la Torre. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 1981—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Feared, Hell and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1980 film by Raúl de la Torre. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q624841. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980 and 1981.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “So Feared a Hell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.