
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
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
9.0A 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
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
NRThe life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.
Oro bajo
1956
NRMario Soffici's first short film shoot in 35mm.
Federal Night
1932
8.0The story of several women who reach motherhood in difficult conditions.
Maternidad sin hombres
1968
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
7.0The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.
Esta tierra es mía
1961
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
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
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
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
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
10.0A boy travels from Chaco to Buenos Aires taking with him an elephant that saved from a circus.
Un elefante color ilusión
1970
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
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
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
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
NRPassion for a woman leads a mature physician to his destruction
Una ventana a la vida
1953
Behind the camera
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
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
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
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
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
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
NRThe life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.
Oro bajo
1956
NRThe life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.
Oro bajo
1956
NRMario Soffici's first short film shoot in 35mm.
Federal Night
1932
NRMario Soffici's first short film shoot in 35mm.
Federal Night
1932
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
10.0Mario 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
10.0Social film that explores journalism's fight against fraud, intimidation, extortion and political crimes during the 30s in Argentina.
Héroes sin fama
1940
7.0A baby is kidnapped and a couple will travel the whole country trying to pay the ramson.
Yo quiero morir contigo
1941
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
The education received at home influences the future of some neighborhood boys of different economic status.
Ellos nos hicieron así
1953
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