The similarity of the plot theme of Vertigo (1958) and Más allá del olvido (1956), shot two years before in Buenos Aires, obsessed all Argentine movie buffs for decades. Finally the question was elucidated: the link between both films is the novella "Bruges-la-Morte" (1893) of the Belgian writer Georges Rodenbach. Hugo del Carril adapted it directly. Alfred Hitchcock indirectly, through a French novel entitled "D'Entre Les Morts" (1954) that its authors Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac hatched a childish police plot about the double tragedy of Rodenbach.
Its shooting began on August 9, 1955, but was interrupted for several weeks when its director Hugo del Carril was captured by the military coup that overthrew Juan Domingo Perón in September of that year. The film, released in June 1956 after a period of prohibition of its director, went unnoticed and was unsuccessful. Since the 1990's it is widely considered one of the most important titles shot in the era of studies.