Mario Soffici

Directing

Mario Soffici

Born 1900-05-13 · Firenze, Toscana, Italia

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.

Acting credits

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

Buenos Aires Dolls poster
9.0

A 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

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

Oro bajo poster
NR

The life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.

Oro bajo

1956

Federal Night poster
NR

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

Federal Night

1932

Maternidad sin hombres poster
8.0

The story of several women who reach motherhood in difficult conditions.

Maternidad sin hombres

1968

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

Esta tierra es mía poster
7.0

The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.

Esta tierra es mía

1961

Propiedad poster
10.0

Mario 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

El linyera poster
7.0

A homeless man returns to the countryside after traveling the world for years.

El linyera

1933

No artwork available
9.0

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

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

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

Tierra del Fuego poster
NR

Several 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

Un elefante color ilusión poster
10.0

A boy travels from Chaco to Buenos Aires taking with him an elephant that saved from a circus.

Un elefante color ilusión

1970

How to Make an Argentine Film poster
7.0

Institutional 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

Isla brava poster
4.5

A young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended themselves against invading outlaws.

Isla brava

1958

Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic poster
7.6

Mara 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

Los acusados poster
NR

The 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

Una ventana a la vida poster
NR

Passion for a woman leads a mature physician to his destruction

Una ventana a la vida

1953

Behind the camera

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

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 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

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

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

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

Oro bajo poster
NR

The life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.

Oro bajo

1956

Oro bajo poster
NR

The life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.

Oro bajo

1956

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

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

Propiedad poster
10.0

Mario 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

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

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

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

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

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