Armando Robles Godoy

Directing

Armando Robles Godoy

Born — Died

1923-02-07 — 2010-08-10

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

39 titles

Armando Robles Godoy (February 7, 1923 – August 10, 2010) was a Peruvian film director. He was son of the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles and Carmela Godoy. His 1967 film En la selva no hay estrellas won the Golden Prize at the 5th Moscow International Film Festival in 1967. In 1971 he was a member of the jury at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. Director of Espejismo, so far the only Peruvian film to have been nominated to a Golden Globe award.

Known for

Impossible Love poster
4.8

It is the legend of several stories. A journalist who hates a guy who's on TV, you have to interview him, then ends up making love to this again and again, in the end both are separated from love. Another story is that of an old man who teaches at a beautiful piano melody to a very young child, in turn this man sees everywhere a very beautiful girl who happens to be a past love, she is a ghost that embodies in the body of every woman he sees. The child learning piano has a grandfather who loves him and conceited enough, yet the mother of the child does not like to go out with Grandpa because the child very rare note. The last story is about a woman from planet you want San Antonio grant him the miracle that an altar boy to notice her and she later marries her.

Impossible Love

2003

Mirage poster
7.0

A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.

Mirage

1972

Ganarás el pan poster
10.0

A young man from Lima with a dissipated life will receive an inheritance, but a testamentary clause imposes a condition: he must travel all over Peru. He starts a long journey of two years which takes him through all the regions of the country. He observes agriculture, industry, mining, retail and gets to know the many ways in which his compatriots earn their living.

Ganarás el pan

1965

Sonata soledad poster
7.0

Three stories. A middle-aged man remembering his childhood, a couple living in a ghostly world, and a parody of filmmaking.

Sonata soledad

1987

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about the work of firefighters and their fight against fire.

Fuego

1975

Robles Godoy poster
NR

An approach to the Peruvian director Armando Robles Godoy's way of seeing cinema. Images from "Espejismo" (1972), "La muralla verde" (1970), "Sonata Soledad" (1988) are commented by the director, complemented by the testimony of close friends, collaborators and critics of his work.

Robles Godoy

1999

Film credits

Behind the camera

Impossible Love poster
4.8

It is the legend of several stories. A journalist who hates a guy who's on TV, you have to interview him, then ends up making love to this again and again, in the end both are separated from love. Another story is that of an old man who teaches at a beautiful piano melody to a very young child, in turn this man sees everywhere a very beautiful girl who happens to be a past love, she is a ghost that embodies in the body of every woman he sees. The child learning piano has a grandfather who loves him and conceited enough, yet the mother of the child does not like to go out with Grandpa because the child very rare note. The last story is about a woman from planet you want San Antonio grant him the miracle that an altar boy to notice her and she later marries her.

Impossible Love

2003

Impossible Love poster
4.8

It is the legend of several stories. A journalist who hates a guy who's on TV, you have to interview him, then ends up making love to this again and again, in the end both are separated from love. Another story is that of an old man who teaches at a beautiful piano melody to a very young child, in turn this man sees everywhere a very beautiful girl who happens to be a past love, she is a ghost that embodies in the body of every woman he sees. The child learning piano has a grandfather who loves him and conceited enough, yet the mother of the child does not like to go out with Grandpa because the child very rare note. The last story is about a woman from planet you want San Antonio grant him the miracle that an altar boy to notice her and she later marries her.

Impossible Love

2003

Impossible Love poster
4.8

It is the legend of several stories. A journalist who hates a guy who's on TV, you have to interview him, then ends up making love to this again and again, in the end both are separated from love. Another story is that of an old man who teaches at a beautiful piano melody to a very young child, in turn this man sees everywhere a very beautiful girl who happens to be a past love, she is a ghost that embodies in the body of every woman he sees. The child learning piano has a grandfather who loves him and conceited enough, yet the mother of the child does not like to go out with Grandpa because the child very rare note. The last story is about a woman from planet you want San Antonio grant him the miracle that an altar boy to notice her and she later marries her.

Impossible Love

2003

Mirage poster
7.0

A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.

Mirage

1972

Mirage poster
7.0

A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.

Mirage

1972

Ganarás el pan poster
10.0

A young man from Lima with a dissipated life will receive an inheritance, but a testamentary clause imposes a condition: he must travel all over Peru. He starts a long journey of two years which takes him through all the regions of the country. He observes agriculture, industry, mining, retail and gets to know the many ways in which his compatriots earn their living.

Ganarás el pan

1965

Ganarás el pan poster
10.0

A young man from Lima with a dissipated life will receive an inheritance, but a testamentary clause imposes a condition: he must travel all over Peru. He starts a long journey of two years which takes him through all the regions of the country. He observes agriculture, industry, mining, retail and gets to know the many ways in which his compatriots earn their living.

Ganarás el pan

1965

Sonata soledad poster
7.0

Three stories. A middle-aged man remembering his childhood, a couple living in a ghostly world, and a parody of filmmaking.

Sonata soledad

1987

Sonata soledad poster
7.0

Three stories. A middle-aged man remembering his childhood, a couple living in a ghostly world, and a parody of filmmaking.

Sonata soledad

1987

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about the work of firefighters and their fight against fire.

Fuego

1975

No Stars in the Jungle poster
5.6

A white man searches for a legendary gold mine in the depths of the Peruvian jungle.

No Stars in the Jungle

1967

No Stars in the Jungle poster
5.6

A white man searches for a legendary gold mine in the depths of the Peruvian jungle.

No Stars in the Jungle

1967

No artwork available
NR

Short film by Armando Robles Godoy with Bernardo Batievsky.

Incendio

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The Green Wall poster
5.8

A young couple forsakes their urban existence for life in the exciting but dangerous Peruvian jungle.

The Green Wall

1970

Vía Satélite… En Vivo y en Directo poster
NR

The broadcast of a Peruvian national football team match, part of the World Cup qualifiers, transforms the bustling streets of Lima into empty, desolate, ghostly spaces. A sonic counterpoint of the shouts of the crowd, the chants of supporters, the announcers in the middle of the broadcast, etc., speaks of a city suspended in its daily routine by a sporting event.

Vía Satélite… En Vivo y en Directo

1973

Vía Satélite… En Vivo y en Directo poster
NR

The broadcast of a Peruvian national football team match, part of the World Cup qualifiers, transforms the bustling streets of Lima into empty, desolate, ghostly spaces. A sonic counterpoint of the shouts of the crowd, the chants of supporters, the announcers in the middle of the broadcast, etc., speaks of a city suspended in its daily routine by a sporting event.

Vía Satélite… En Vivo y en Directo

1973

No artwork available
NR

A documentary by Armando Robles Godoy.

Mosaico Limeño

1975

Cemetery of the Elephants poster
NR

A man returns to a hacienda, lost in time and history, where, as a child or teenager, in his budding career as a writer, he left a typewriter stored away as a symbolic object. He goes to find it and unearth it. A return to the lost childhood in which his first creative impulses took root.

Cemetery of the Elephants

1974

No artwork available
NR

The conflict between the spirit of fraternity and that of commercial competition at the Christmas party in Lima.

Paz en la Tierra

1974

El Cóndor Pasa poster
NR

Robles Godoy narrates the childhood of his father Daniel Alomía Robles and the birth of his melody "El cóndor pasa".

El Cóndor Pasa

1971

El Cóndor Pasa poster
NR

Robles Godoy narrates the childhood of his father Daniel Alomía Robles and the birth of his melody "El cóndor pasa".

El Cóndor Pasa

1971

No artwork available
NR

First short film by Armando Robles Godoy. Unfinished short film of dubious technical quality.

Ya se cayó el arbolito

1953

No artwork available
NR

The cells, torture chamber and courtroom of the Holy Inquisition of Lima in the 18th century.

Auto de Fe

1974

No artwork available
NR

Short film by Armando Robles Godoy.

Oro y Barro

1975

No artwork available
NR

Regarding the advantages offered by the telephone service.

La Voz Humana

1978

Himno al Sol poster
NR

Life and work of the composer Daniel Alomía Robles (1871-1942).

Himno al Sol

1974

Himno al Sol poster
NR

Life and work of the composer Daniel Alomía Robles (1871-1942).

Himno al Sol

1974

We Are The People poster
NR

Short documentary film (1971) Directed by Armando Robles Godoy about the Kuna Indians of Panama.

We Are The People

1971

No artwork available
NR

Short film by Armando Robles Godoy.

España en Lima

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No artwork available
NR

Short film by Armando Robles Godoy.

Baile de las Orquídeas

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El lenguaje misterioso poster
NR

Series of educational short films on cinematographic language made up of: - "The movement" - "The light" - "The noises" - "Music" - "Continuity"

El lenguaje misterioso

1984

El lenguaje misterioso poster
NR

Series of educational short films on cinematographic language made up of: - "The movement" - "The light" - "The noises" - "Music" - "Continuity"

El lenguaje misterioso

1984

No artwork available
NR

Short film by Armando Robles Godoy.

Reportaje a Ancón

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