Yiya Murano: Death at Tea Time

Cyanide in the tea bags, not the cakes

The English title still sells tea time. The Argentine nickname is older. Yiya Murano, the Poisoner of Monserrat. Netflix put Yiya Murano: Death at Tea Time on the global slate on 23 April 2026, six days after a BAFICI world premiere at Buenos Aires's Cine Gaumont. latestnetflix.com's view is that GPS Audiovisual printed the festival slots as 17 April at 19:00 at Gaumont and 19 April at Cinepolis Plaza Houssay.The stream date is not the rumor. The method is.,,

For years the country repeated a kitchen-table story. Cyanide in the masitas, the pastries she served with tea. LA NACION, writing on opening day, says Hartmann's film and the forensic voices in it walk that tale back. Autopsy work on Carmen Zulema Del Giorgio de Venturino, the last of three dead women, confirmed cyanide. Exhumations of Nilda Gamba and Lelia Formisano de Ayala followed. Specialists in the film argue the bitter dose hid better in tea bags than in cakes. That is a rewrite of a national ghost story, not a new body.

Haddock already had a Netflix true-crime lane

Alejandro Hartmann directed. Haddock Films and Vanessa Ragone produced. Same company behind The Photographer and the Postman: The Cabezas Crime and Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta?. Lucas Bucci and Tomas Sposato wrote. BAFICI lists 103 minutes, cinematography by Alejandra Martin, edit by Manuel Margulis Darriba. Rotten Tomatoes prints 1 hour 44 minutes and the 23 April streaming date. GPS names the on-camera bench as Martin Murano, Virginia Messi, Jorge Arevalo, Jorge Arona, Osvaldo Bazan, Lia Salgado, Chiche Gelblung, and Mariana Olivera Venturini. This is that shop doing another Argentine case the tabloids already think they own.,,,

The trailer, posted in Spanish as Yiya Murano: Muerte a la hora del te, is blunt. In the 70s she poisoned her friends. In the 90s she conquered television. A son is still fighting to expose the truth about his own mother. TMDB's English synopsis says the same thing in catalog language. Freed in the 1990s, she reappeared as a pop icon. Today her son Martin seeks to reveal her true face. Netflix's U.S. Page still calls her a charming housewife. The movie is arguing with that line.,,,

The son who will not defend her

Maria de las Mercedes Bernardina Bolla Aponte de Murano was born 20 May 1930 in Corrientes. Wikipedia dates the three cyanide killings to February and March 1979 and the arrest to 27 April 1979 at her Mexico Street house. Perfil recaps the legal zig-zag. Judge Angel Mercado acquitted her in 1982. In 1985 the appeals court imposed life for three qualified homicides and fraud. She walked in 1995 after a sentence cut and the two-for-one law, then sat on television. Perfil says she returned to Mirtha Legrand's table with a box of masitas the host would not taste. She died 26 April 2014.,

LA NACION interviewed Hartmann and Ragone before BAFICI. Hartmann talked about plata dulce, the late-70s money fever, and a middle class chasing yields it could not explain. The preview piece also says the film gives victims a central place instead of another round of Yiya as a talk-show character. Martin is the family news the documentary is built to deliver. Not a rumor of a fourth cup of tea. A son on the record against the pop-icon cut his mother spent the 1990s selling.,,

Watchers who come for pastry folklore get the tea-bag rewrite. Watchers who come for Yiya the television guest get Martin's refusal. Both are sourced. Neither needs a new scandal stacked on top.