Directing
Catrano Catrani
Born 1910-10-31 · Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Catrano M. Catrani (October 31, 1910 — December 19, 1974) was an Italian-Argentine film director and producer. Catrani was born in 1910 in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy. He studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He emigrated to Argentina in 1937 and settled in Buenos Aires, where he joined San Miguel Studios. He directed many short advertising films and documentaries, and in 1942 he completed his first major work, the comedy En el último piso with Zully Moreno as the lead. His first big success was Alto Paraná, a costumbrista comedy screenwritten by novelist Velmiro Ayala Gauna, with Ubaldo Martínez in the lead role as Frutos Gómez, a sardonic and astute policeman. In 1963, he directed La fusilación or El último montonero, co-written with Félix Luna and with music by Ariel Ramírez, about the bloody death of caudillo Ángel Vicente Peñaloza, which won the prize for best director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. He married Vlasta Lah, whom he met at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where he studied direction, and she studied acting. They became a couple, married, and fled to Argentina during WWII. Vlasth went on to become the country's first woman to direct a sound film. Catrano Catrani died on December 19, 1974, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Acting credits
7.5Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion.
The Furies
1960
NRWhen she made her first film in 1960, Vlasta Lah was the only woman to direct a sound feature film in Argentina. Her path was arduous and long: from her childhood in a country torn apart by war to her training at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, to her arrival in Argentina fleeing another war, where she became the most important assistant director at Estudios San Miguel. Through her personal correspondence and a meticulous investigation, her name will be rescued from oblivion.
Vlasta, el recuerdo no es eterno
2025
Behind the camera
7.0A commissioner from Corrientes solves cases according to his own system. Based on the novel "Los casos de don Frutos Gómez", by Velmiro Ayala Gauna.
Upper Paraná
1958
7.0A commissioner from Corrientes solves cases according to his own system. Based on the novel "Los casos de don Frutos Gómez", by Velmiro Ayala Gauna.
Upper Paraná
1958
7.0A commissioner from Corrientes solves cases according to his own system. Based on the novel "Los casos de don Frutos Gómez", by Velmiro Ayala Gauna.
Upper Paraná
1958
7.0A man kills another man because of an old dispute and keeps the gold that the dead one had on him.
Codicia
1955
7.0A man kills another man because of an old dispute and keeps the gold that the dead one had on him.
Codicia
1955
7.0A man kills another man because of an old dispute and keeps the gold that the dead one had on him.
Codicia
1955
NRA rich man protects an orphan and her donkey but she must be sacrificed as a result of an accident
Santiago querido!
1965
7.5Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion.
The Furies
1960
8.0Two young women taking charge of a sheep ranch, a doctor, an aging cabaret girl and a priest but heads with some wild-west style bandits who are terrorizing a part off back-country Patagonia.
South of the 42nd parallel
1955
8.0Two young women taking charge of a sheep ranch, a doctor, an aging cabaret girl and a priest but heads with some wild-west style bandits who are terrorizing a part off back-country Patagonia.
South of the 42nd parallel
1955
7.0Alberto, a young adolescent from Buenos Aires, is going to spend his vacations at his grandmother's farm in San Rafel, Mendoza. Idyllic site witnessed the awakening of the protagonist's sexuality and the economic ruin of the family. Between adolescence and maturity, seeking love and the path of his vocation, in ruthless struggle with himself he will learn in the hardest way the meaning of life and responsibility.
Álamos talados
1960
7.0Alberto, a young adolescent from Buenos Aires, is going to spend his vacations at his grandmother's farm in San Rafel, Mendoza. Idyllic site witnessed the awakening of the protagonist's sexuality and the economic ruin of the family. Between adolescence and maturity, seeking love and the path of his vocation, in ruthless struggle with himself he will learn in the hardest way the meaning of life and responsibility.
Álamos talados
1960
10.0A born soccer player leaves his town and his family to become a professional footballer. He has stardom, money, and a beautiful model, but realizes he left behind the important values that helped him achieve his success.
I Was Born In The Ribera
1972
10.0A born soccer player leaves his town and his family to become a professional footballer. He has stardom, money, and a beautiful model, but realizes he left behind the important values that helped him achieve his success.
I Was Born In The Ribera
1972
NRThe antics of two children who live in a ranch.
Tacuara y Chamorro, pichones de hombres
1967
NRThe antics of two children who live in a ranch.
Tacuara y Chamorro, pichones de hombres
1967
9.0The most famous lovers of world literature help a librarian to realize her love for a young man.
La comedia inmortal
1951
10.0A doctor with political ambitions leaves his humble fiancée on the eve of the wedding to marry a rich woman.
Lejos del cielo
1950
9.0A mother hires a psychologist to be the father of 3 children, and he performs his role excellently, providing affection.
Los hijos del otro
1947
8.0The last actions of the Riojan caudillo Chacho Peñaloza until his death and beheading.
El último montonero
1963
8.0The last actions of the Riojan caudillo Chacho Peñaloza until his death and beheading.
El último montonero
1963
10.0The theft of a village mailbox wreaks havoc on the relationships and secrets of its neighbors.
Los secretos del buzón
1948
7.0A student's aunt comes from the province to investigate her conduct.
Llegó la niña Ramona
1945
10.0A whole tranquil town in Chaco gets shaken up by the arrival of a femme fatale.
¿De quiénes son las mujeres?
1972