Ricardo Becher

Directing

Ricardo Becher

Born 1930-01-01 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ricardo Becher (1930–2011) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and journalist. He directed twelve films between 1955 and 2006. His 1969 film Coup de Grâce was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival. He worked as Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's assistant director on four films. During the 1970s he made a living in advertising and publicity. Since 1990 he made a career as a filmmaking teacher and he has published two novels. In 2006 he screened his last feature film in the VI BAFICI (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) where a retrospective of his films was made. He is the founder of the N.E.D Neo expresionismo digital, a way of transforming the video footage (imagen mundo) by postproduction filters in the search of its essence.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Crimen poster
NR

A construction worker has some terrible thoughts on his break time.

Crimen

1962

Crimen poster
NR

A construction worker has some terrible thoughts on his break time.

Crimen

1962

The Friend poster
6.3

This short features an unnamed shoeshine boy who works near a carnival. He dreams he befriends a middle-class boy one evening and gets a chance to spend time inside the carnival gate.

The Friend

1960

The Female: Seventy Times Seven poster
6.1

Cora is a Mexican prostitute with typically inconsiderate johns. She is troubled by a hole in the ceiling. The hole triggers flashbacks regarding how she got to where she is; she hooked up with a gringo and got involved in digging a well. A horse thief given up for dead gives them a hand.

The Female: Seventy Times Seven

1962

Coup de Grace poster
6.2

During the day, a non-conformist young man and his friends try to make a living by doing odd jobs; at night, they sink at the Moderno Bar.

Coup de Grace

1969

Coup de Grace poster
6.2

During the day, a non-conformist young man and his friends try to make a living by doing odd jobs; at night, they sink at the Moderno Bar.

Coup de Grace

1969

The Terrace poster
6.9

A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but they threaten to jump down if any adults enter the terrace.

The Terrace

1963

La entrega poster
9.0

A wave of anonymous attacks will capriciously unite the stories, leading them towards an inexorable end.

La entrega

2002

Racconto poster
8.0

The romantic encounter and misunderstanding between an aristocratic model and an actor.

Racconto

1963

Racconto poster
8.0

The romantic encounter and misunderstanding between an aristocratic model and an actor.

Racconto

1963

The Gauchito Gil, Inocent blood poster
7.5

A documentary crew, busy filming a movie about lumpenaje in the city, contact with their cameras and record the activities of a marginal tribe led by Gauchito whom be named for Gil Gauchito devotee, whose stories we refer to projections of life episodes of the legendary Antonio Gil Nunez. By following the example of his hero, the face Gauchito to power but, unlike the popular saint, achieved avoid their tragic fate.

The Gauchito Gil, Inocent blood

2006

The Gauchito Gil, Inocent blood poster
7.5

A documentary crew, busy filming a movie about lumpenaje in the city, contact with their cameras and record the activities of a marginal tribe led by Gauchito whom be named for Gil Gauchito devotee, whose stories we refer to projections of life episodes of the legendary Antonio Gil Nunez. By following the example of his hero, the face Gauchito to power but, unlike the popular saint, achieved avoid their tragic fate.

The Gauchito Gil, Inocent blood

2006