María Vaner
Acting
Biography
María Vaner, born Marilyn Aleandro (1935-2008), was an Argentine actress. She appeared in nearly 50 films and television shows between 1958 and 2008. The daughter of Pedro Aleandro, her sister is actress Norma Aleandro. She had two sons with Argentinian singer, songwriter, actor and director Leonardo Favio.
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Alta comedia
A former Triple A (Argentine anti-communist alliance) is abandoned by his former colleagues after the Argentine dictatorship falls, in the course of his solitude he slowly becomes more insane and falls further into dementia, at the same time as one of the parents of the many children that he murdered and tortured during the dictatorship persecute him for revenge.
In Retirement
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
Three different love-related stories -all starring María Vaner as different "Anas". In "The Earth," Ana is a young and idealistic woman on the verge of adulthood when her first relationship with a clerk shatters her dreams of a romantic life. In "The Air," Ana is a rebellious, easy-living type among some beach bums whose sexual leanings tend to tip the scale at active promiscuity. In "The Cloud," Ana only exists in the imagination of an introverted man, who dreams of his ideal woman.
Three Times Ana
It tells the story of four Jewish boys during a few summer days at the country club where their parents take them, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in 1993. Within the club, the four define themselves as outsiders, since they do not participate in the sports activities that are practiced there, and therefore do not fit into the logic that governs the place, being permanently bothered and mocked by the rest of the children of their age.
Cheese Head
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La insólita y gloriosa hazaña del cipote de Archidona
The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires. The film shows the teenage Raulito wandering between a reformatory for juvenile offenders, prison and psychiatric hospital. Raulito manages to escape, and finds work at Constitución railway station in Barrio Constitución. Raulito meets up with another street child and they become close friends. They both eventually manage to escape to Mar del Plata.
La Raulito
Set in Buenos Aires. A man is called upon to identify and evaluate an unfinished and enigmatic painting thought to be the work of the famous painter, Bax. Slowly he finds himself enmeshed in the mysteries of its identification leading him slowly to murder, insanity and death.
Corps perdus
After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.
The Headless Woman
After seven years in jail, a woman is released and has to re-enter society.
A Woman...
The frustrations felt by certain middle-class youth in Argentina during the early sixties.
The Old Young People
A Swedish journalist in Buenos Aires is about to reveal the circumstances surrounding the young Swedish-Argentine woman Lena Melin's disappearance. The military junta of Argentina is threatening to deport him.
Los dueños del silencio
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Alas, poder y pasión
The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in authoritarian Argentina.
Chronicle of a Boy Alone
Small stories linked by a group of children who at night in Buenos Aires wander through the city and mingle with their families in an abandoned building
Los insomnes
The disputes between two leaders, set in 1930s Cuidad de Buenos Aires.
Proceso a la infamia
An old man named Geppetto creates a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who comes to life
Pinocchio
After a brutal car accident, a young man falls into a coma and is left to be looked after by a doctor who suffers in his personal life and commits himself fully to save his patient.
To Realize
A man and a woman fall in love in the streets of a nocturnal Buenos Aires.
Prisioneros de una noche
A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.