Mario Soffici

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

Film credits

1950s · 7 titles

1940s · 2 titles

Behind the camera

Prisoners of the Land poster
6.4

Argentina, 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

Rosaura at 10 O'Clock poster
7.3

Out 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

Rosaura at 10 O'Clock poster
7.3

Out 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

El alma del bandoneón poster
8.0

Two brilliant tango singers struggle to the top of their profession and cope with obstacles to their personal romance.

El alma del bandoneón

1935

El alma del bandoneón poster
8.0

Two brilliant tango singers struggle to the top of their profession and cope with obstacles to their personal romance.

El alma del bandoneón

1935

Pasó en mi barrio poster
10.0

An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.

Pasó en mi barrio

1951

El curandero poster
7.7

A 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

El curandero poster
7.7

A 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

No artwork available
8.0

The education received at home influences the future of some neighborhood boys of different economic status.

Ellos nos hicieron así

1953

Puerto Nuevo poster
8.0

With 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

Puerto Nuevo poster
8.0

With 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

La dama del mar poster
10.0

An obsessed woman desperately fights to overcome the past that binds her.

La dama del mar

1954

La dama del mar poster
10.0

An obsessed woman desperately fights to overcome the past that binds her.

La dama del mar

1954

Héroes sin fama poster
10.0

Social film that explores journalism's fight against fraud, intimidation, extortion and political crimes during the 30s in Argentina.

Héroes sin fama

1940

El pecado de Julia poster
7.0

It is about the love affair between an aristocratic lady and a lackey.

El pecado de Julia

1947

Yo quiero morir contigo poster
7.0

A baby is kidnapped and a couple will travel the whole country trying to pay the ramson.

Yo quiero morir contigo

1941

Gray neighborhood poster
9.5

Told 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

Gray neighborhood poster
9.5

Told 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

Muñeca poster
NR

Mario 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

El viejo doctor poster
10.0

Medical 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

The Strange Case of the Man and the Beast poster
6.5

Dr. 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

The Strange Case of the Man and the Beast poster
6.5

Dr. 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

The Clover Sect poster
7.3

A writer gets involved in a police case related to some jewelry belonging to a Chinese sect.

The Clover Sect

1948

El camino de las llamas poster
9.0

A 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

Kilómetro 111 poster
5.6

Ceferino 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

Kilómetro 111 poster
5.6

Ceferino 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

Federal Night poster
NR

Mario Soffici's first short film shoot in 35mm.

Federal Night

1932

Federal Night poster
NR

Mario Soffici's first short film shoot in 35mm.

Federal Night

1932

Besos perdidos poster
5.5

A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.

Besos perdidos

1945

Three Men of the River poster
7.0

The 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

Despertar a la vida poster
8.0

A doctor, a young woman and a romance between them product of a suicide attempt and a heart operation.

Despertar a la vida

1945

The Circus Cavalcade poster
7.2

The 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

The Circus Cavalcade poster
7.2

The 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

The Circus Cavalcade poster
7.2

The 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

Una ventana a la vida poster
NR

Passion for a woman leads a mature physician to his destruction

Una ventana a la vida

1953

Una ventana a la vida poster
NR

Passion for a woman leads a mature physician to his destruction

Una ventana a la vida

1953

Con las alas rotas poster
8.0

A man finds out his wife had a lover and abandons her, but first he gains custody of their daughter.

Con las alas rotas

1938

Vacaciones en el otro mundo poster
NR

A businessman allegedly dead in an accident does not deny the news and assumes a new personality.

Vacaciones en el otro mundo

1942

El hombre que debía una muerte poster
6.3

A 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

Cadetes de San Martín poster
10.0

A 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