Lautaro Murúa

Acting

Lautaro Murúa

Born 1926-12-29 · Tacna, Chile

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lautaro Murúa (29 December 1926 Tacna, Chile - 3 December 1995 in Madrid) was a Chilean-born Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter.  Born in Chile, Murúa moved to Argentina at the beginning of the fifties. He studied architecture and fine arts before entering the film industry. He worked primarily as an actor and appeared in over 80 films between 1949 and his death in 1995 although he also directed a handful of important films such as Shunko, Alias Gardelito and La Raulito, all with stories usually revolving around social topics. As an actor, Murúa participated in the 1960s film industry revival, acting in the movies of Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Rodolfo Kuhn, Manuel Antín and David José Kohon. He left to live in Spain for political reasons in the 1970s, and then he returned to Argentina to film several movies until sickness set in and he died in Spain in 1995.

Acting credits

La caída poster
6.6

A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and children. An attorney falls for the student, but the couple experiences problems when she declines to leave what he refers to as "that lunatic asylum."

La caída

1959

Martín Fierro poster
5.8

The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.

Martín Fierro

1968

The Kidnapper poster
5.7

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.

The Kidnapper

1958

Shunko poster
6.8

A teacher arrives to a small village in Santiago del Estero and must educate children against the will of their parents.

Shunko

1960

Fuelle querido poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fuelle querido

1967

The Traitors poster
7.4

Based on a true story, the film narrates the life of a fictitious Peronist union leader who, after years of militancy, gains power in the union during the 1960s and gradually becomes a corrupt bureaucrat.

The Traitors

1973

La Hechizada poster
NR

Baltasar, a young man in his twenties, is sent by his father to live with his aunt Dolores, an elderly widow and childless widow, on the Las Pataguas farm. There he meets his neighbors, the Araneda family, owners of the El Pantano farm and parents of the beautiful Humilde, with whom Balthazar falls in love. But the girl is "bewitched" by Saúl Araneda, her seductive cousin, whom the locals consider dangerously jealous.

La Hechizada

1950

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse poster
5.6

Shunka Wakan, formerly Lord John, helps his Dakota son defend their tribe against gold rushers.

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

1983

Los pocillos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Los pocillos

1974

Alone poster
10.0

A separated woman faces her future and revises her goals.

Alone

1976

Paula Cautiva poster
6.7

An Argentine who emigrated to the United States finds himself by chance in Argentina for business. There he hires a woman, Paula, who is from a traditional but poor family, and he finds himself falling in love with her.

Paula Cautiva

1963

The Party Is Over poster
6.8

This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.

The Party Is Over

1960

The Beasts' Carnival poster
6.0

A hit man working for the Yakuza double crosses his employers and flees with a cache of diamonds from the latest heist. Injured and hiding in the mountain regions of Spain, with Japanese assassins in hot pursuit, he takes refuge in the home of a local doctor and his two daughters who nurse him back to health and hide him from his pursuers, taking drastic and murderous measures to protect him... for they have plans of their own in store for their current guest.

The Beasts' Carnival

1980

Scream of Stone poster
6.3

A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is considered to be the world's best sport climber (having just won an indoor 'world championship,' an event depicted in the opening scene). They plan to climb 'Cerro Torre,' in the Patagonia region of South America, near the Argentinian/Chilean border, one of the world's most difficult mountains, especially considering the extreme weather conditions common to the area.

Scream of Stone

1991

I, the Worst of All poster
6.0

A 17th-century Mexican nun defies expectations by becoming a renowned intellectual and writer during the Spanish Inquisition.

I, the Worst of All

1990

Los chantas poster
9.0

Several losers living together in a Buenos Aires boarding house try to make a living while dreaming of a big life-changing score.

Los chantas

1975

Trout poster
5.4

In a restaurant they're preparing a grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to boycott the event.

Trout

1978

Girl with the Golden Panties poster
4.5

Luys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send her daughter Mariana to stay with him. Mariana and a seemingly mute and artistic lesbian companion come to town to shake the stable world of Luys with their free and uninhibited ways. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.

Girl with the Golden Panties

1980

Quebracho poster
7.3

Set around 1910 in the Chaco region, the film depicts the plight of quebracho woodcutters, cruelly exploited by English businessmen with the support of the authorities, local police, and a paramilitary force established by the employers themselves.

Quebracho

1974

Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf poster
7.1

The Mighty One offers Nazareno Cruz all the wealth in the world if he agrees to abandon his beloved; otherwise, the curse that supposedly weighs on him will be fulfilled.

Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf

1975

Heroína poster
6.3

A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.

Heroína

1972

Invasion poster
7.3

Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders.

Invasion

1969

Raulito Is Free poster
7.5

La Raulito travels to Madrid when she gets out of jail in Argentina to carve out a better future. Once in the Spanish capital, she participates in a documentary recounting his experience as a patient in a psychiatric hospital.

Raulito Is Free

1977

Llampo de sangre poster
9.0

Based on Oscar Castro's novel rtp slot, the film is set in the El Encanto mine, in the interior of Rancagua, where prospectors and barreteros dig the bowels of the earth in search of hidden riches.

Llampo de sangre

1954

Behind the camera

Shunko poster
6.8

A teacher arrives to a small village in Santiago del Estero and must educate children against the will of their parents.

Shunko

1960

Valentina poster
6.1

In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.

Valentina

1982

Raulito Is Free poster
7.5

La Raulito travels to Madrid when she gets out of jail in Argentina to carve out a better future. Once in the Spanish capital, she participates in a documentary recounting his experience as a patient in a psychiatric hospital.

Raulito Is Free

1977

La Raulito poster
6.0

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

1975

Un guapo del 900 poster
6.8

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.

Un guapo del 900

1971

Un guapo del 900 poster
6.8

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.

Un guapo del 900

1971

Cuarteles de invierno poster
7.3

A boxer and a singer are hired by the Armed Forces to entertain the people of a small town. When their personalities and principles get them in trouble with the authorities, they support each other as they face their destiny.

Cuarteles de invierno

1984

Cuarteles de invierno poster
7.3

A boxer and a singer are hired by the Armed Forces to entertain the people of a small town. When their personalities and principles get them in trouble with the authorities, they support each other as they face their destiny.

Cuarteles de invierno

1984

Alias Gardelito poster
6.0

The title of this story is taken from the name of the great Argentine singer Carlos Gardel, the idol of the antihero Toribio portrayed by Alberto Argibay. Toribio's goal in life is to emulate the famous singer and making his own way successfully in the music business. Yet at the same time, he does not stop his illegal means of making ends meet, stealing and petty thievery. Discouraged when his big break never quite materializes, Toribio heads for disaster when he joins up with a large smuggling scheme.

Alias Gardelito

1961