
Ralph Pappier
Art
Biography
Ralph Pappier was a renowned Argentinian scenographer from the 40s and 50s, during Argentina's golden age of cinema. He also directed 10 films, most of them became classics.
Known For

A reporter and tango singer is sent to the war zone in 1916, where he loses his memory.
La cumparsita

A police officer joins a gang of smugglers to try to unmask its members.
Delito

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

The love triangle of a journalist, a political leader and his wife.
Nativa

The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná.
Operación "G"

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

The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.
El último payador

Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
Madame Bovary

After seven years in jail, a woman is released and has to re-enter society.
A Woman...

The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.
Cruza

A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.
El gran secreto

The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.
En el viejo Buenos Aires

An Italian immigrant accumulates wealth for their children, all consider him a miserable, until one day one of her children gives a very big disappointment and dies of a heart attack. Their children begin to spend the fortune he had amassed his father.
The Old Skinflint

Juan Carlos Thorry is a police inspector who must solve the mystery of the death of the warden of a boarding school for young women, for which he goes undercover as a music teacher. The main suspect is the mischievous schoolgirl María Duval. A series of entanglements leads the protagonists to becoming romantically involved and to finding the culprit.
La serpiente de cascabel

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

Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.
Pobre mi madre querida

With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned even in unfavorable reviews. Later, it became a cursed film, impossible to see due to lack of prints. To date, it remains lost in great part.
El festín de Satanás
An impulsive actress abandons a film shoot and is replaced by a dressmaker, and the former's husband hires her to impersonate her in front of his future in-laws.
La otra y yo

The film tells the story of the natural son of a former president of Argentina and father of public education in the country, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, named Domingo, according to the first autobiographical accounts.
Su mejor alumno

A prostitute persecuted by the police, receives the interested protection of a greedy merchant. He takes refuge in his house one night and meets his nephew, a sensitive boy who wants to be a musician.