
Directing
Mario Soffici
Born — Died
1900-05-13 — 1977-05-10
Place of birth
Firenze, Toscana, Italia
Known for
Directing
Credits
60 titles
Mario Soffici (1900-1977) was an Italian-born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most important and renowned filmmakers during Argentina's golden age of cinema. He was known for his social movies, often filming in different provinces throughout the country.
Known for
6.4Argentina, 1915. Accompanied by a doctor and his beautiful daughter, Köhner, a ruthless foreman who rules a yerba mate plantation with an iron fist, arrives in the city of Posadas with the purpose of hiring workers.
Prisoners of the Land
1939
7.3Out of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues his fellow boarding house tenants, so they involve themselves into his relationship until one day the mysterious Rosaura appears.
Rosaura at 10 O'Clock
1958
8.0Two brilliant tango singers struggle to the top of their profession and cope with obstacles to their personal romance.
El alma del bandoneón
1935
7.6Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and her money manager, decides to sell the house and return to Buenos Aires; but the three men do not agree with her decision.
Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic
1976
10.0An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.
Pasó en mi barrio
1951
7.7A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.
El curandero
1955
Film credits
1970s · 2 titles
7.6Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and her money manager, decides to sell the house and return to Buenos Aires; but the three men do not agree with her decision.
Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic
1976
10.0A boy travels from Chaco to Buenos Aires taking with him an elephant that saved from a circus.
Un elefante color ilusión
1970
1960s · 4 titles
8.0The story of several women who reach motherhood in difficult conditions.
Maternidad sin hombres
1968
7.0The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.
Esta tierra es mía
1961
NRThe murder of a man is investigated by a judge but the documentation that the dead man possessed makes the investigation hampered by politicians.
Los acusados
1960
10.0Mario Soffici's last film. The story is about a beautiful young woman who is criticized by the town's old gossip women and is defended by a generous priest. She has an amorous relationship with a young orphan.
Propiedad
1962
1950s · 7 titles
7.3Out of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues his fellow boarding house tenants, so they involve themselves into his relationship until one day the mysterious Rosaura appears.
Rosaura at 10 O'Clock
1958
7.7A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.
El curandero
1955
9.5Told in flashback, Federico lives in a poor neighbourhood with his siblings and his single mother, working helping in a local bar, he meets Claudio, who begins to lead him on an easy life making him abandon all his connections in consequence.
Gray neighborhood
1954
6.5Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
The Strange Case of the Man and the Beast
1951
NRPassion for a woman leads a mature physician to his destruction
Una ventana a la vida
1953
4.5A young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended themselves against invading outlaws.
Isla brava
1958
NRThe life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.
Oro bajo
1956
1940s · 2 titles
7.0Institutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film Festival in Mar del Plata. The film shows the technical process by which an Argentine film is produced and emphasizes the professionalism and power of the national film industry. In this way, the story explains in a pedagogical way what is a script, a frame, a camera, a set sketch and a projected background, among others, and how a scene and the soundtrack of a film are recorded.
How to Make an Argentine Film
1948
NRSeveral individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous people perpetrated by the landowners in the area.
Tierra del Fuego
1948
1930s · 4 titles
NRMario Soffici's first short film shoot in 35mm.
Federal Night
1932
7.0A homeless man returns to the countryside after traveling the world for years.
El linyera
1933
A girl from the suburbs is seduced by worldly life while another accepts her condition and conquers the love of a singer.
Calles de Buenos Aires
1933
9.0A girl who sometimes mistreats her father, leaves her home and leaves her boyfriend, seduced by an adventurer who starts her as a tango singer. The father is jailed after shooting the seducer and she tries to commit suicide but her old boyfriend saves her, starting a more successful way.
Buenos Aires Dolls
1931
Behind the camera
6.4Argentina, 1915. Accompanied by a doctor and his beautiful daughter, Köhner, a ruthless foreman who rules a yerba mate plantation with an iron fist, arrives in the city of Posadas with the purpose of hiring workers.
Prisoners of the Land
1939
7.3Out of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues his fellow boarding house tenants, so they involve themselves into his relationship until one day the mysterious Rosaura appears.
Rosaura at 10 O'Clock
1958
7.3Out of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues his fellow boarding house tenants, so they involve themselves into his relationship until one day the mysterious Rosaura appears.
Rosaura at 10 O'Clock
1958
8.0Two brilliant tango singers struggle to the top of their profession and cope with obstacles to their personal romance.
El alma del bandoneón
1935
8.0Two brilliant tango singers struggle to the top of their profession and cope with obstacles to their personal romance.
El alma del bandoneón
1935
10.0An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.
Pasó en mi barrio
1951
7.7A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.
El curandero
1955
7.7A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.
El curandero
1955
The education received at home influences the future of some neighborhood boys of different economic status.
Ellos nos hicieron así
1953
8.0With the help of a rich young woman, a singer who lives in the precarious housing area that existed in Puerto Nuevo comes to fame.
Puerto Nuevo
1936
8.0With the help of a rich young woman, a singer who lives in the precarious housing area that existed in Puerto Nuevo comes to fame.
Puerto Nuevo
1936
10.0An obsessed woman desperately fights to overcome the past that binds her.
La dama del mar
1954
10.0An obsessed woman desperately fights to overcome the past that binds her.
La dama del mar
1954
10.0Social film that explores journalism's fight against fraud, intimidation, extortion and political crimes during the 30s in Argentina.
Héroes sin fama
1940
7.0It is about the love affair between an aristocratic lady and a lackey.
El pecado de Julia
1947
7.0A baby is kidnapped and a couple will travel the whole country trying to pay the ramson.
Yo quiero morir contigo
1941
9.5Told in flashback, Federico lives in a poor neighbourhood with his siblings and his single mother, working helping in a local bar, he meets Claudio, who begins to lead him on an easy life making him abandon all his connections in consequence.
Gray neighborhood
1954
9.5Told in flashback, Federico lives in a poor neighbourhood with his siblings and his single mother, working helping in a local bar, he meets Claudio, who begins to lead him on an easy life making him abandon all his connections in consequence.
Gray neighborhood
1954
NRMario 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
1927
10.0Medical father and son in conflict over two conceptions about the practice of medicine as a result of a bad and inopportune medical practice carried out by the son to a patient of the father.
El viejo doctor
1939
6.5Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
The Strange Case of the Man and the Beast
1951
6.5Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
The Strange Case of the Man and the Beast
1951
7.3A writer gets involved in a police case related to some jewelry belonging to a Chinese sect.
The Clover Sect
1948
9.0A Chilean spy pretends to love an Indian woman, the only one who knows a secret passage in the Andes mountain range.
El camino de las llamas
1942
5.6Ceferino is the train station chief o a remote town. A group of planters ask him to legit them the wagons to send the harvest to Buenos Aires, he agrees, but he gets fired.
Kilómetro 111
1938
5.6Ceferino is the train station chief o a remote town. A group of planters ask him to legit them the wagons to send the harvest to Buenos Aires, he agrees, but he gets fired.
Kilómetro 111
1938
NRMario Soffici's first short film shoot in 35mm.
Federal Night
1932
NRMario Soffici's first short film shoot in 35mm.
Federal Night
1932
5.5A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.
Besos perdidos
1945
7.0The film is based on an old Argentine legend about an Aztec girl who is raped and murdered by vandals and dumped in a river. A flower blossoms at the place in which she was killed and misfortune falls upon the culprits.
Three Men of the River
1943
8.0A doctor, a young woman and a romance between them product of a suicide attempt and a heart operation.
Despertar a la vida
1945
7.2The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.
The Circus Cavalcade
1945
7.2The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.
The Circus Cavalcade
1945
7.2The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.
The Circus Cavalcade
1945
NRPassion for a woman leads a mature physician to his destruction
Una ventana a la vida
1953
NRPassion for a woman leads a mature physician to his destruction
Una ventana a la vida
1953
8.0A man finds out his wife had a lover and abandons her, but first he gains custody of their daughter.
Con las alas rotas
1938
NRA businessman allegedly dead in an accident does not deny the news and assumes a new personality.
Vacaciones en el otro mundo
1942
6.3A young woman welcomes a stranger into her home who pretends to have an accident. After a fleeting romance, the two marry and she immediately inherits a fortune due to the death of her uncle. Later, the young woman discovered that there is a connection between the events.
El hombre que debía una muerte
1955
10.0A rural businessman is robbed by a corrupt partner and his cadet son and good student aspires to run the business.
Cadetes de San Martín
1937
