Beto Gianola

Acting

Beto Gianola

Born 1924-01-01 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Norberto Isidro Gianola, better known as Beto Gianola, was an Argentine film, television and theater actor.

Acting credits

Operación Antartida poster
10.0

Two sailors traveling to Antarctica, delude themselves with meeting to the same woman on their return. Totally natural scenes filmed in Antarctica.

Operación Antartida

1957

The Kidnapper poster
5.7

A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.

The Kidnapper

1958

El terrorista poster
NR

A weak man is used by an organization to commit terrorist attacks.

El terrorista

1962

La obertura poster
NR

A man is kidnapped when he is mistaken for another and his wife tries to collect a large life insurance but he reappears alive.

La obertura

1977

Los hampones poster
NR

A woman robs the authoritarian boss of a criminal gang and then falls in love with a buddy.

Los hampones

1961

No artwork available
10.0

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, at the age of 22, made his directorial debut with this little-known auteur short film, based on one of his short stories, which contains the seeds he would develop in future works: loneliness, the conflicts and morals of society at that time, its loss of identity, and literary themes. Although Torre Nilsson himself used to define "The Wall" as "a sin of youth," it already reveals a different kind of cinema, with a certain expressionist touch, a reflection of his literary restlessness and an early and natural rejection of the commercial vision of cinema at that time, a rejection he would maintain throughout his career, in which he would crash against another wall, that of censorship, more than he would have liked.

El muro

1947

Patapúfete poster
7.0

Pepe receives a notebook from his great-uncle containing the formula for making an atomic bomb. When some specialists dedicated to science discover it, they begin to send people to steal it.

Patapúfete

1967

Brief Heaven poster
6.3

A young middle-class man and a young girl who has left the slums to work as a prostitute meet by chance on the Plaza de los Ingleses, opposite the emblematic Retiro station in Buenos Aires.

Brief Heaven

1969

Pasión dominguera poster
9.0

A waiter, a notary, a policeman and some gravediggers leave everything to go and watch their favorite football team play.

Pasión dominguera

1970

Convención de vagabundos poster
9.0

A vagabond receives a large fortune as an inheritance and summons his peers to decide what to do with it.

Convención de vagabundos

1965

I Did Kill Facundo poster
8.5

The story of Santos Pérez, the man who murdered caudillo Facundo Quiroga in 1835.

I Did Kill Facundo

1975

Chronicle of a Boy Alone poster
6.8

The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in authoritarian Argentina.

Chronicle of a Boy Alone

1965

Orden de matar poster
7.5

Upon learning of the murder of a friend, a police inspector sets out to take justice on his own. This attitude, contrary to his usual convictions, will gradually destroy him.

Orden de matar

1965

El gordo catástrofe poster
7.1

Catrasca (Jorge Porcel) is a man who works in a restaurant and in his spare time helps in a children's home. His problem is that he carries a family tradition that makes him cause catastrophes in his path, one of which takes his boss (Adolfo García Grau) to the hospital. Upon leaving the hospital, Catrasca is run over by Graciela (Graciela Alfano), the daughter of Professor Galíndez (Osvaldo Terranova). This is how he meets this professor, who has a formula that says he will be the salvation of humanity, so he is the object of persecutions by villains such as Dr. Linda Winters (Moria Casán).

El gordo catástrofe

1977

Dagli Appennini alle Ande poster
6.2

A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.

Dagli Appennini alle Ande

1959

Buenos Aires, verano 1912 poster
10.0

The son of a politician who tries to follow the same path as his father, gives up when he discovers his fraudulent dealings.

Buenos Aires, verano 1912

1966

El gordo de América poster
6.9

To celebrate his promotion, a manager (Javier Portales) decides to summon his brother from the field, but as he did not stop making disasters he sends him back. His brother (Jorge Porcel) is not convinced and dazzled by an advertisement decides to set up an investigation office.

El gordo de América

1976

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

De cara al cielo poster
8.0

Life in a Neuquén fort during the Conquest of the Desert.

De cara al cielo

1979

Un guapo del 900 poster
7.0

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.

Un guapo del 900

1960

No artwork available
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Reverse Shot

1958

The Venerable Ones poster
6.4

Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader, Lucas, and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love begins to delve into the macabre logic of the group.

The Venerable Ones

1963

Graciela poster
8.3

A small town girl arrives in the city to study literature and philosophy, she stays in a house inhabited by a family in decline.

Graciela

1956

Los tímidos visten de gris poster
8.0

A store owner tries to commit suicide several times but he can't succeed.

Los tímidos visten de gris

1965