Lucas Demare
Directing
Biography
Lucas Demare was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer prominent in Argentine Cinema during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. At the 1943 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Demare won Silver Condor awards for Best Director, Best Film and numerous other awards for The Gaucho War (1942), a film which is considered by critics in Argentina to be one of the best films in its history. He won further awards including Best Film and Director for Su mejor alumno (1944) at the 1945 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards. In 1964, he was a member of the jury at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival. He died of a heart attack at the age of 71 in 1981. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
A handsome newcomer in a village marries a local girl. A year or so later an abandoned baby is left on the couple's doorstep, a baby the man had with another woman. They decide to raise the kid along with the one they had together.
Guacho
A gambling priest opposes a group of scammers.
Pájaro loco
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La cigarra está que arde
A group of youngsters, encouraged by their teacher, starts with guerrilla actions.
Los guerrilleros
In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires to prevent deserting soldiers.
Savage Pampas
During the second half of the 19th century, a young survivor is saved in the Argentine pampas by a man she ends up marrying.
El último perro
An Italian immigrant accumulates wealth for their children, all consider him a miserable, until one day one of her children gives a very big disappointment and dies of a heart attack. Their children begin to spend the fortune he had amassed his father.
The Old Skinflint
The action occurs in Abasto Market in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A grown up single woman marries a mafia man who promised her he would change. After they've married, his past come to ruin the wife's life.
Mercado de abasto
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.
Cómo se hace una película argentina
The plot reflects the figure of Pascual Contursi, tango poet. In love with a singer, he leaves his wife and son to go with her. Some time later, the singer leaves him and he composes the tango that gives the film its title.
Mi noche triste
A man whose wife was murdered on the wedding night returns to town to marry another and is resisted by the locals.
La boda
A vagabond saves the child of a rich family. They adopt him and try to impose to him their values and protocols.
Chingolo
Leandro and Carancha inhabit the islands located in the Parana delta. When their son brings home a girlfriend, her presence makes Carancha jealous and dramatic consequences ensue.
The Islanders
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El seductor de Granada
The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
The Gaucho War
The film tells the story of the natural son of a former president of Argentina and father of public education in the country, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, named Domingo, according to the first autobiographical accounts.
Su mejor alumno
Two young men from the radio environment dispute for the love of a girl.
Dos amigos y un amor
A professional clown takes advantage of another clown, who is simple and naif, to take over his place and conquer the heart of a young lady.
Payaso
The passionate love of a married woman and a single man.
Nunca te diré adiós
A young woman must take shelter one rainy afternoon in the house of the writer with whom she is in love.