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Luis Moglia Barth

Luis Moglia Barth

Directing

Biography

Luis José Moglia Barth (1903–1984) was a film director and screenwriter who directed numerous films in the early stages of Argentine cinema, including ¡Tango! (1933), considered the first Argentine sound feature film.

Known For

Amalia
10.0

The romance between Amalia Sáenz de Olabarrieta –a widow living in Buenos Aires– and the young Unitarian Eduardo Belgrano. Based on the novel by José Mármol.

Amalia

1936
Melgarejo
7.0

An adultery-induced woman is helped by her driver who discovers the villains.

Melgarejo

1937
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N/A

The film's plot, which largely takes place in a cabaret, revolves around a worldly guy who had abandoned a mature lover for a younger and more beautiful one. It is very elementary and is just a pretext for a parade of popular songs. Currently considered lost.

Dancing

1933
Aphrodite
N/A

According to historian Fernando Martín Peña, this film was produced by Julio Tello's Argentine Cinematographic Union distributor and premiered at the San Martín Theater as if it were French "presumably for reasons of respectability." After the campaign against him by the Catholic newspaper El Pueblo, San Martín took it down from the billboard. On November 4 it was announced that the film would be shown again in a downtown theater and finally on November 7 the interim mayor Adrián Fernández Castro resolved the ban for "amoral".

Aphrodite

1928
Ponchos azules
10.0

No description available.

Ponchos azules

1942
Confesión
7.5

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

1940
Huella
10.0

In 1840, a caravan of carts headed from Buenos Aires to Córdoba carrying merchandise, ammunition and prisoners, against the background of the struggles between the Unitarians and the Federalists.

Huella

1940
María Rosa
7.5

A woman who misses her husband, who died in prison, is disputed between wine growers.

María Rosa

1946
Picaflor
7.0

An habitant of the Paraná Delta is tempted to engage in smuggling but abandons it for the love of a teacher.

Picaflor

1935
¡Goal!
7.5

No description available.

¡Goal!

1936
Boina blanca
8.5

The film narrates events of the Revolution of the Park, carried out by radical sympathizers on July 26, 1890. There is a secondary plot with the romance of a girl who, despite being in love with her father's godson, must contract a marriage with a banker that fails.

Boina blanca

1941
El 90
N/A

Through a succession of flashbacks, a grandfather tells his grandson about the outstanding episodes of the 1890 revolution, known as the "Revolution of the Park", against the government of Juárez Celman. Between the armed confrontations and the exaltation of the figure of Leandro N. Alem, the evocation includes a synthetic love story and culminates with the celebration of the second presidency of Hipólito Yrigoyen.

El 90

1928
Cruza
10.0

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

Cruza

1942
Intermezzo criminal
10.0

A man is found dead in a music hall during one of the numbers, so the performance is suspended and the police begin to investigate.

Intermezzo criminal

1953
Hogar, dulce hogar
5.5

A capricious lady resigns herself to work as the host of a female radio program where she sings jingles and gives advice on cooking and gardening, putting aside her love of police novels, but she will find herself involved in a murder.

Hogar, dulce hogar

1941
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9.0

A 1932 Argentinian film by Luis Moglia Barth.

Tango Advice

1932
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9.0

The film follows a group of young girls in a boarding school.

Doce mujeres

1939
Riachuelo
7.5

A thief ends up in the Riachuelo zone and after a revealing event, he stops stealing and starts working.

Riachuelo

1934
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9.0

Tabloid journalists muddy the waters during the investigation of the murder of an Argentine senator.

Edición extra

1949
La fuerza ciega
9.0

A shipyard owner rapes the daughter of a blind worker, unaware that she is his own son's girlfriend.

La fuerza ciega

1950