Catrano Catrani
Directing
Biography
Catrano M. Catrani (October 31, 1910 — December 19, 1974) was an Italian-Argentine film director and producer. Catrani was born in 1910 in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy. He studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He emigrated to Argentina in 1937 and settled in Buenos Aires, where he joined San Miguel Studios. He directed many short advertising films and documentaries, and in 1942 he completed his first major work, the comedy En el último piso with Zully Moreno as the lead. His first big success was Alto Paraná, a costumbrista comedy screenwritten by novelist Velmiro Ayala Gauna, with Ubaldo Martínez in the lead role as Frutos Gómez, a sardonic and astute policeman. In 1963, he directed La fusilación or El último montonero, co-written with Félix Luna and with music by Ariel Ramírez, about the bloody death of caudillo Ángel Vicente Peñaloza, which won the prize for best director at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. He died on December 19, 1974, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Known For
The theft of a village mailbox wreaks havoc on the relationships and secrets of its neighbors.
Los secretos del buzón
By trying to maintain her millionaire appearance, a young woman goes through a series of entanglements and finds a love that is also millionaire.
En el último piso
A doctor with political ambitions leaves his humble fiancée on the eve of the wedding to marry a rich woman.
Lejos del cielo
A born soccer player leaves his town and his family to become a professional footballer. He has stardom, money, and a beautiful model, but realizes he left behind the important values that helped him achieve his success.
I Was Born In The Ribera
The most famous lovers of world literature help a librarian to realize her love for a young man.
La comedia inmortal
Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion.
The Furies
Two young women taking charge of a sheep ranch, a doctor, an aging cabaret girl and a priest but heads with some wild-west style bandits who are terrorizing a part off back-country Patagonia.
South of the 42nd parallel
The last actions of the Riojan caudillo Chacho Peñaloza until his death and beheading.
El último montonero
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¿De quiénes son las mujeres?
A student's aunt comes from the province to investigate her conduct.
Llegó la niña Ramona
A bigame woman, a complicated maid with shady facts, and a rip-off against a wealthy man attempted by an alleged son.
Mujeres en sombra
Alberto, a young adolescent from Buenos Aires, is going to spend his vacations at his grandmother's farm in San Rafel, Mendoza. Idyllic site witnessed the awakening of the protagonist's sexuality and the economic ruin of the family. Between adolescence and maturity, seeking love and the path of his vocation, in ruthless struggle with himself he will learn in the hardest way the meaning of life and responsibility.
Álamos talados
A man kills another man because of an old dispute and keeps the gold that the dead one had on him.
Codicia
The antics of two children who live in a ranch.
Tacuara y Chamorro, pichones de hombres
A rich man protects an orphan and her donkey but she must be sacrificed as a result of an accident
Santiago querido!
A commissioner from Corrientes solves cases according to his own system. Based on the novel "Los casos de don Frutos Gómez", by Velmiro Ayala Gauna.
Upper Paraná
A mother hires a psychologist to be the father of 3 children, and he performs his role excellently, providing affection.