The House of the Angel

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{{Infobox film

| name = The House of the Angel

| image =La casa del ángel- poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| native_name = {{Infobox name module

| language = Spanish

| title = La casa del ángel

}}

| director = Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

| producer =

| writer = {{ubl|Beatriz Guido|Leopoldo Torre Nilsson|Martín Rodríguez M.}}

| narrator =

| starring = Elsa Daniel
Lautaro Murúa

| music =

| based_on = {{based on|{{lang|es|La casa del ángel}}|Beatriz Guido}}

| cinematography = Aníbal González Paz

| editing = Jorge Gárate

| distributor =

| studio = Argentina Sono Film

| released = {{Film date|1957|07|11}}

| runtime = 76 minutes

| country = Argentina

| language = Spanish

| budget =

}}

The House of the Angel ({{langx|es|La casa del ángel}}) is a 1957 Argentine drama film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson based the novel of the same name by his wife Beatriz Guido, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

The film was entered into the 10th Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or prize.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3519/year/1957.html |title=Festival de Cannes: The House of the Angel |accessdate=2009-02-07|work=festival-cannes.com}}

The film is considered a turning point in the history of Argentine cinema,{{cite book|url=http://ibermediadigital.com/ibermedia-television/contexto-historico/historia-del-cine-argentino-4/|language=es|accessdate=9 April 2020|pages=420–442|chapter=Argentina|title=Diccionario del Cine Iberoamericano|year=2011|last=García Oliveri|first=Ricardo|publisher=SGAE|isbn=978-8480488228|others=Tomo 1}} as its international success contributed to the development of more national productions.{{cite book|last=Schumann|first=Peter B.|title=Historia del cine latinoamericano|chapter=Argentina|year=1987|publisher=Legasa|isbn=978-950-600-099-8|page=23|language=es}}

It was selected as the second greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll conducted by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 1977, while it ranked 6th in the 1984 edition and 10th in the 2000 edition.{{cite journal|url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITZbOc_XZnbJ1W2a9Lq9Zk8xJRrWrzPg/view|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221121182959/https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITZbOc_XZnbJ1W2a9Lq9Zk8xJRrWrzPg/view|archive-date=21 November 2022|accessdate=21 November 2022|year=2000|issue=3|journal=La Mirada Cautiva|location=Buenos Aires|publisher=Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken|via=Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 on Google Drive|pages=6–14|title=Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino}} In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida util, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 22 position.{{cite web|url=https://encuestadecineargentino.com/top-100/|title=Top 100|language=es|accessdate=13 November 2022|date=11 November 2022|publisher=Encuesta de cine argentino 2022}}