Mario Soffici
Also Known As: Марио Соффичи
Biography: Mario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most important and renowned filmmakers during Argentina's golden age of cinema. He was known for his social movies, often filming in different provinces throughout the country.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Firenze, Toscana, Italia
Birthday: May 13, 1900
Deathday: May 10, 1977
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Gender: Male
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Cómo se hace una película argentina
Overview: Institutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film Festival in Mar del Plata. The film shows the technical process by which an Argentine film is produced and emphasizes the professionalism and power of the national film industry. In this way, the story explains in a pedagogical way what is a script, a frame, a camera, a set sketch and a projected background, among others, and how a scene and the soundtrack of a film are recorded.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Calles de Buenos Aires
Overview: A girl from the suburbs is seduced by worldly life while another accepts her condition and conquers the love of a singer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1933-03-16
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Gray neighborhood
Overview: The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the less qualified workers or those who have recently arrived from the rural areas live in the industrial cordons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-10-27
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Rosaura at 10 O'Clock
Overview: Out of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues his fellow boarding house tenants, so they involve themselves into his relationship until one day the mysterious Rosaura appears.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-03-06
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Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic
Overview: Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and her money manager, decides to sell the house and return to Buenos Aires; but the three men do not agree with her decision.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-04-22
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Tierra del Fuego
Overview: Several individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous people perpetrated by the landowners in the area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-11-30
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Una ventana a la vida
Overview: Passion for a woman leads a mature physician to his destruction
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-20
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Esta tierra es mía
Overview: The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-11-06
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Isla brava
Overview: A young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended themselves against invading outlaws.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-09-04
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Buenos Aires Dolls
Overview: A girl who sometimes mistreats her father, leaves her home and leaves her boyfriend, seduced by an adventurer who starts her as a tango singer. The father is jailed after shooting the seducer and she tries to commit suicide but her old boyfriend saves her, starting a more successful way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-08-07
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The Strange Case of the Man and the Beast
Overview: Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-01-11
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Maternidad sin hombres
Overview: The story of several women who reach motherhood in difficult conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-11-07
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El linyera
Overview: A homeless man returns to the countryside after traveling the world for years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1933-09-12
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Un elefante color ilusión
Overview: A boy travels from Chaco to Buenos Aires taking with him an elephant that saved from a circus.
Genres: Comedy Music Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-07-07
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El curandero
Overview: A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-08-25
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Oro bajo
Overview: The life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-08-02
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Los acusados
Overview: The murder of a man is investigated by a judge but the documentation that the dead man possessed makes the investigation hampered by politicians.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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Propiedad
Overview: Mario Soffici's last film. The story is about a beautiful young woman who is criticized by the town's old gossip women and is defended by a generous priest. She has an amorous relationship with a young orphan.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-06-13
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