Elsa Daniel
Acting
Biography
Elsa Daniel, born Elsa Nilda Gómez Scapatti (1936-2017), was an Argentine film actress. She is best remembered for being the protagonist in almost all of director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's series of gothic films. Alongside María Vaner, she was the female face of Argentina's cinematic renovation during the 60s.
Known For
A charming racecar driver is visited by his 20-year-old son who is nothing like his father. Solemn and introverted, the boy is shown the ways of sensual pleasure by his father's mistress, but he falls in love with another young woman. Intending to marry the girl, the young man takes the relationship very seriously. His father, however, believes the boy should have a more carefree lifestyle and decides to intervene by seducing his own son's fiance. This action proves to be a tremendous mistake.
Primero yo
A young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended themselves against invading outlaws.
Isla brava
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Comedia rota
The vicissitudes of six different couples who arrive at a hostel in Buenos Aires called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of a supposed bubonic plague, causing all kinds of inconveniences and entanglements as a result of this forced coexistence.
The Games Men Play
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La novia
A small town girl arrives in the city to study literature and philosophy, she stays in a house inhabited by a family in decline.
Graciela
A young teen has been raised by a despotic mother overcome with religious zeal and a father who rules over the household with a heavy, iron hand. Forcibly kept innocent of the sexual nuances of some adult relationships, she is not too clear on her rights, his intentions, or the consequences when her father's best friend starts to lust after her.
The House of the Angel
A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and children. An attorney falls for the student, but the couple experiences problems when she declines to leave what he refers to as "that lunatic asylum."
La caída
This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic.
The Hand in the Trap
A profiteer pretends to be a psychoanalyst to conquer women with sexual trauma.
Psexoanálisis
A girl teenager pretends to be a woman to conquer a drunk french actor.
Un centavo de mujer
Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion.
The Furies
A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
Viaje de una noche de verano
Several losers living together in a Buenos Aires boarding house try to make a living while dreaming of a big life-changing score.
Los chantas
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El juramento de Lagardere
A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.
Vida nocturna
In a couple who travel to Córdoba for their honeymoon, the folklore enchants her and bores him.
Cosquín, amor y folklore
A military from Salta returns with unitary troops to his province and must surround the stay of a federal supporter
La balada del regreso
Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.
The Romance of Aniceto and Francisca
A boxer's dream of fighting in the Luna Park stadium and the interests surrounding this sport.