Enrique Santos Discépolo
Writing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Enrique Santos Discépolo was an Argentine tango composer and lyricist, author of famous tangos such as "Cambalache" and many others performed by several of the most important singers of his time, amongst them notably Carlos Gardel. He was also a film actor, director and screenwriter.
Known For
Group of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to stardom, romantic conflicts between the woman and two guys in the band and some peripheral crime-drama stuff.
Confesión
A film that brings together ten of the fifteen shorts that Carlos Gardel filmed in 1930 under the direction of Eduardo Morera, in the film studios of the pioneer Federico Valle.
Así cantaba Carlos Gardel
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Melodías porteñas
A millionaire appoints an administrator to control his daughter's overspending.
Caprichosa y millonaria
A tango singer is involved in the death of a lender.
Pecadora
A mechanical worker and football fanatic finds the meaning of life in encouraging, following and collaborating with the club that he loves, to the point of indefinitely postponing the marriage with his eternal girlfriend.
El hincha
Well-to-do idler loses his fortune, ends up going to night-school and working as butler for a wealthy family. Still posing as a rich toff, he courts a young lady who turns out to be the daughter of his employer.
Un señor mucamo
Two brilliant tango singers struggle to the top of their profession and cope with obstacles to their personal romance.
El alma del bandoneón
A successful tango singer struggles to cope with the demands and opportunities of fame.
En la luz de una estrella
After being decorated for a meritorious act, Cándida finds herself involved in the activities of some scammers who try to use her fame.
Cándida, la mujer del año
Juan Pérez is a waiter in a luxurious place where the bachelor party of a man who is going to get married for convenience is done. When a dancer and singer with whom he was entangled, chases him, he uses Perez to get rid of her.
El pobre Pérez
Romance - with its ruptures and reunions - between a girl and a boy who want to succeed with the tango.
La vida es un tango
A counterfeiting gang implicate a bank employee in their crimes, but their cover-story about a ghost in the house where they do their printing backfires on them.
Fantasmas en Buenos Aires
The perverse owner of a cabaret gets redemption by sacrificing himself for the happiness of others.
Cuatro corazones
A businessman falls in love with a beautiful young woman, showers her with attention and turns her into a star without confessing his love to her.
Blum
A man who is a director of a reformatory is slowly gaining everyone's trust.
...Y mañana serán hombres
Some professional actors are unemployed due to the opinion of a theater critic, then they decide to take revenge and disguise themselves as poor tenants from a neighborhood who are hired by the same critic to perform his work.
Nace un amor
Story about a humble musician who triumphs overcoming his failures and a young woman arrives in Buenos Aires from the interior of the country in search of triumph but finds death.
Corrientes, calle de ensueños
Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence.
Yo no elegí mi vida
Cars and progress made an old carriage-driver jobless and so desperate that he becomes a gangster. When his own son starts a life of crime, he repents and gives himself to the authorities. When he lives prison, he will be happy to rejoin his family, as his son repented, too.