Francisco Martínez Allende
Acting
Biography
Francisco Martínez Allende (Cangas de Onís, Oviedo, Spain; 1906 – Buenos Aires, Argentina; August 25, 1954) was a Spanish actor, theater director, and playwright who became a naturalized Argentine citizen. He was one of the Spanish theater figures whose careers were eclipsed by exile after the Spanish Civil War. At the age of fifteen, he emigrated to Buenos Aires, where he studied and began his theatrical career as an actor and writer, eventually meeting Federico García Lorca. In Spain, he directed the Tribuna Theater and was in charge of theatrical groups for the Republican Army. After the fall of the Second Spanish Republic, he went into exile in Cuba and later returned to Argentina, where he worked in theater and film until his death.
Known For
A vile woman has a change of attitude and starts helping a scientist who deliberately infects himself to test the efficacy of a vaccine.
María Magdalena
In the mid nineteenth century, flamenco singing and dancing bring together their most loyal fans in a tablao in Andalusia where Rosarillo, an attractive singer unleashes the passions of his audience. On her wedding night, while the gypsy sings from deep emotion of her heart, her husband is murdered. Her feelings will be truncated at once, and in front of all those present, she swears revenge.
Singer Cafe
After the May Revolution occurred, a young man abandoned his royalist uncle and became a drummer for the revolutionary army and his father's guide.
El tambor de Tacuarí
Aspects of the life of Juan Facundo Quiroga, a caudillo who for many years ruled the province of La Rioja in Argentina and was assassinated in 1835.
Facundo, el tigre de los llanos
The problems of a man who when he goes to see his newborn son is mistaken for an assailant.
La telaraña
The protagonist commits a crime and abandons his brother, on whom the shadow of suspicion falls, to avoid punishment. In his escape he meets for the first time the emotion of a true love, but fatality takes it upon himself, pushing him back onto the criminal path.
La muerte está mintiendo
A man pretends to be dead and his dying wish causes his wife to marry a drifter and lose her inheritance.
El hombre de las sorpresas
A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.
Vacaciones
A rancher makes a pact with the devil to achieve happiness and love.
El gaucho y el diablo
A woman fond of spiritualism and neglected by her husband starts an affair with an American industrialist.
El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada
Mario Soffici's first introduction to film direction. Short made in 16mm, where he adapted some scenes from Armando Discepolo's script "Muñeca" as an experiment to compare the differences between theater and film. It was recorded in the dressing room courtyard of Teatro Avenida de Mendoza.
Muñeca
A woman who's just about to commit adultery gets compromised due to an unpredicted mistake during her adventure.