Nelo Cosimi
Acting
Biography
Nelo Cosimi was a film director, screenwriter and actor who was born in Macerata, Italy in 1894 and died in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 5, 1945, the country where he had developed his activity in the cinema.
Known For
Based on a quechua legend, Malambo tells the story of a woman who lost her husband and son because of the greedy patrón of an hacienda. She swore that she would never remove the cloth over her eyes until her dead were avenged by the deaths of the patrón and his daughter. Nature seems to be on her side, since a drought has afflicted the land. Her other son, Malambo, accepts the duty of revenge. Malambo is no normal human: he is the runa-uturungo, or Hombre Tigre, of Quechua lore, and he cannot be wounded by bullets. He leads the obreros to rise in revolt and defeats the patrón. However, instead of killing the patrón's daughter--the blind Urpila --he falls in love with her, thereby breaking his mother's heart.
Malambo
A woman and his lover spend a season at the mountains, in order to recover from the excesses of life in the city. But peace doesn’t last long: he tries to seduce a country-woman and she invites a mongrel over to her bedroom. The film is, in essence, a melodrama filled with jealousy and betrayal, but it also showcases some original elements that no other cinematography would have dared to suggest in 1929, like the possibility of a romance between an Indian and a white woman (with her taking the first step).
La quena de la muerte
A threatened financier is impersonated during a train ride by an identical-looking salesman.
El tercer huésped
The film was filmed with sound, but the result was so poor that it had to be released as a silent film.
Defiende tu honor
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Mirad los lirios del campo
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La mujer y la bestia
A bandit is accused of killing a young man who was actually killed by his girlfriend's stepfather who was in love with her.
Sendas cruzadas
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Corazón ante la ley
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Venganza gaucha
Inspired by the tango "De vuelta al pago", by the pianist Armando Chimenti.
De vuelta al pago
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Regeneración
Amancio, the son of a judge, is the real master and lord of a town, and wants to impose his property criteria over the owners of ranches and horses. He stops the eviction of Eulalia’s family ranch, with the hidden intention of making her his lover. Silvestre, an outsider that arrives at the village, meets Eulalia by chance, after suffering a zulky accident. He will find trouble as well, as his horse doesn’t have a property mark.
Mi alazán tostao
A 1924 film.
El arriero de Yacanto
It takes place in 1827, in Carmen de Patagones, in the context of the confrontation between the militias of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and the navy troops of the Empire of Brazil. It is the story of a fort lieutenant who falls in love with a young woman.
The Charge of the Brave
The life and times of Manuelita Rosas.
Manuelita Rosas
A 1924 film.
Odio serrano
A woman driven by misery to a path of degradation until the inexorable end of which the tango symbolizes, at the same time, her condemnation and her liberation.
El tango de la muerte
A 1922 film.
El remanso
The life of the gaucho Juan Moreira, his fall into crime, persecution and death.
Juan Moreira
A 1926 film.