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Mario Soffici

Mario Soffici

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Biography

Mario Soffici (1900-1977) 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.

Known For

Isla brava
4.5

A young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended themselves against invading outlaws.

Isla brava

1958
The Prodigal Woman
6.8

The story of Julia, a beautiful woman of licentious life who one day reconsiders and decides to use her fortune for the good of her neighbor and of the needy.

The Prodigal Woman

1945
The Circus Cavalcade
7.2

The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.

The Circus Cavalcade

1945
Celos
10.0

Argentinian adaptation of "The Kreutzer Sonata" by Leo Tolstoy.

Celos

1946
Puerto Nuevo
8.0

With the help of a rich young woman, a singer who lives in the precarious housing area that existed in Puerto Nuevo comes to fame.

Puerto Nuevo

1936
Kilómetro 111
5.6

Ceferino is the train station chief o a remote town. A group of planters ask him to legit them the wagons to send the harvest to Buenos Aires, he agrees, but he gets fired.

Kilómetro 111

1938
Esta tierra es mía
7.0

The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.

Esta tierra es mía

1961
Pasó en mi barrio
10.0

An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.

Pasó en mi barrio

1951
Chafalonias
10.0

After his wife's death, widower begins to learn details about a double life she led.

Chafalonias

1960
Cómo se hace una película argentina
7.0

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

1948
Gray neighborhood
9.5

Told in flashback, Federico lives in a poor neighbourhood with his siblings and his single mother, working helping in a local bar, he meets Claudio, who begins to lead him on an easy life making him abandon all his connections in consequence.

Gray neighborhood

1954
Cadetes de San Martín
10.0

A rural businessman is robbed by a corrupt partner and his cadet son and good student aspires to run the business.

Cadetes de San Martín

1937
Héroes sin fama
10.0

Social film that explores journalism's fight against fraud, intimidation, extortion and political crimes during the 30s in Argentina.

Héroes sin fama

1940
Buenos Aires Dolls
9.0

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.

Buenos Aires Dolls

1931
Rosaura at 10 O'Clock
7.3

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.

Rosaura at 10 O'Clock

1958
The Strange Case of the Man and the Beast
6.5

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

The Strange Case of the Man and the Beast

1951
Three Men of the River
7.0

The film is based on an old Argentine legend about an Aztec girl who is raped and murdered by vandals and dumped in a river. A flower blossoms at the place in which she was killed and misfortune falls upon the culprits.

Three Men of the River

1943
The Cat
6.0

A woman is falsely accused of killing her husband, after finding out that he and her sister were lovers.

The Cat

1947
El curandero
7.7

A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.

El curandero

1955
Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic
7.6

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.

Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic

1976