
Acting
Manuel Callau
Born
1946-08-26 (80)
Place of birth
Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known for
Acting
Credits
43 titles
Manuel Callau (born August 26, 1946) is an Argentine actor.
Known for
8.0The plot is based on the daily life of the Panigasi family, an impoverished middle-class family.
Gasoleros
1998
6.0Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
Killer Women
2005
5.4No synopsis available yet.
Tiempo final
2000
8.3This Spanish-language series chronicles the politics and events leading up to the most severe economic and social crisis in Argentina’s history since its return to democracy. At the center of a government in crisis, a political appointee works as a liaison between the current administration and opposition party figures who seek to rise to power.
Argentina 2001
2023
4.6Miguel "The Tiger" Verón, a union leader from meat sector, has to risk everything against his employers and enemies from justice.
The Tiger
2019
NRCarlín, a thirty-year-old Casanova, shares his rented apartment with an 18-year-old guy when his friend's son finds himself homeless. The clash of lifestyles sparks chaos.
Amigo son los amigos
—
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
7.8No synopsis available yet.
Maro’s Secret
2021
7.0It is a hot, humid and sticky night. Inés, a woman in her forties, is driving through the city of Buenos Aires towards the Buenos Aires suburbs. She is on her way to spend Christmas with her brother's in-laws whom she does not know. During these hours of family siege, Inés faces the questions that open up about her life decisions, reevaluating her choices.
Come To My Home This Christmas
2023
NRClara, a psychologist, and her husband Gustavo have been separated since the disappearance of their son, Lucas. A year after Lucas' disappearance, Gustavo finds on Facebook information about a girl, Augustina, who went missing just two days after Lucas. The broken couple go Augustina's parents in an attempt to find clues about their sons disappearance.
Sand Eyes
2021
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tiempo largo y jodido... ¿Qué quieres que te diga?
2024
2010s · 5 titles
4.2Overflow Psychiatric hospital. Lighting in a stormy night's sky. With almost 12 years without seeing each other, Marcos Ferro (36) and Ivan Manusovich (37) meet the morning after having heard the news about Martin Tayal's death, Who was once a member of Journalism and writing workshop in the hospital. They were both part of the workshop's creation and of a very recognized and conflict magazine which one generated therapeutic, institutional and social effects that proved to be too much for it. The words heard through the phone the day before make them need to find out what happened to Martin and his body. While discussing about this very same subject a word makes them remember about the beginnings of the workshop.
Overflow
2011
NRCarmen fails to adapt to the world and society in which she lives. She worries about not having a partner. In a raffle he wins as a prize a week with all payment for two in Mar del Plata. She is willing not to go alone.
El karma de Carmen
2014
NRThirty years after living in Spain, Paco returns to Argentina to sponsor the wedding of a friend. Retired and separated from his Spanish wife, he is reunited with his affections. As always, in the last thirty years, Margarita, and retired as a teacher, life creeps forward. In the wedding party, best man and Paco Margarita like in charge of catering, intersect again but not found, until he discovers a video of the party. Love truncated by the absence and her refusal to answer his letters, reborn in a search for lost time.
Cuando yo te vuelva a ver
2013
4.5In the present, in Spain, Miguel's mind, affected by a brain disease, seems cloistered in the past, in Argentina, in the seventies, when he risked his life for his ideals. He is obsessed with finding a woman named Diana. Mario, his son, who has been away from Miguel for a long time, now feels compelled to unravel the mystery of a name that, like a curse, pursues his father.
Safe Passage
2015
6.0As a young man, Tadeusz left behind his sweetheart and his entire family to fight for the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. After the war was lost, the rise of fascism made it unsafe for a Jewish communist to return to Europe, and Tadeusz was forced to immigrate to Buenos Aires, literally going underground to help build the subway tunnels beneath the city. Refusing the doctor’s pills he believes responsible for robbing his lucidity and manhood, Tadeusz’s past begins to meld with the present. Knowing that his next journey will likely be his last, Tadeusz sets about reconnecting with long-lost lovers from his youth, with help from an eccentric circle of caring friends and neighbours. A sharply observed character study depicting a quixotic life that comes full circle in its final, bittersweet chapter.
Subte: Polska
2016
2000s · 8 titles
8.0The story of a town inhabited by vampires, located on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
Nocturno
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Terapias alternativas
2007
7.0The film does not describe, rather it observes, in a distant manner, the world of Martin, a seventeen year old who feels he doesn’t belong anywhere, not at home, school, nor with his friends or members of his rock band. In search of some happiness, Martin takes off to the coastal town of Mar de Plata, where his older brother lives. Unglamorous, yet enchantingly addictive and refreshingly genuine, Acuña paints a confused and uncomfortable world, and makes us want revisit it over and over again.
Swim Alone
2003
7.0A television director seeks the support of two old guerrilla comrades, now incorporated, like him, into the squad to broadcast the pilot program of a television series based on his own story, but they, who occupy important positions in the media of communication and the government now has other commitments.
Buenos Aires plateada
2000
9.0A story about a police commissioner and his doctor friend, the appearance of a woman's corpse and the suspicions that are woven around it linked to committee politics, police corruption, and even myths and legends.
Cruz de sal
2004
6.0A surgeon from Buenos Aires, wearied by personal problems and the endless cycle of work, leaves for a week's skiing vacation in the south. Instead, on impulse, he follows a young hitchhiker to a small fishing village, Devil's Point, in the north, on the coast of Uruguay. He makes fleeting acquaintance with some of the villagers, and learns that "the only thing to do in winter is to wait for summer".
Devil's Point
2006
5.7A noir vision of a paranoid and dangerous Buenos Aires where a group of diverse Porteños are fatefully linked by a brutal killing.
I Won't Go Back Home
2001
No synopsis available yet.
Sueños atómicos
2005
1990s · 6 titles
NRA young businessman, owner of a major publishing house, is found shot to the head. Everything suggests a murder, since he was doing a journalistic investigation about a shady business.
Muerte dudosa
1994
5.4Ernesto is a journalist in his 40's who comes from a generation which encountered much political persecution and exile; between the memories and unhealed wounds of his past, stands Ernesto. When his good friend Ricardo calls him one day and proposes to get together after 25 years, they decide to gather all the members of the “old gang” in order to revive those old feelings the best way they know how, through some good old rock n' roll. Amongst one of Ernesto's encounters is Ana, an old love who will bring a twisting unexpected turn into his life. The old gang is comprised of Ricardo's depressive, hypochondriac wife Ana and her socially-conscious former lover Ernesto, a journalist who left Ana years ago to pursue his political ideologies in socialist Cuba.
Wake Up Love
1996
8.5This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, breaks and train his first horse; their 13-year-old sister, Laura, struggles with the transition between childhood and growing up. The kids find it difficult to adapt to their proud and stubborn grandfather, and he learns that he has to change his ways and try to understand them as they all experience the joys and sorrows of growing up and growing old. ~ Alice Duncan, Rovi
Summer of the Colt
1991
5.7Fideo and Panta are two teenage rascals and thieves who dream of traveling to "the promised land", the United States. Rambling between good and evil, roc and tango, this is an action story turned romance when the two youngsters fall in love innocently, but face life with extraordinary maturity. Moving between haunting love scenes beneath starry skies and police chases, watch out…while these two might plan to steal your car radio, they will definitely steal your heart.
Brain Drain
1998
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Canción desesperada
1997
8.0In the episode "Textual," set in the near future, a man clings to a pornographic video he's found. The episode "Trip" takes place on a space voyage where a device records and reproduces sexual sensations. In the episode "Fade to Black," a house's caretaker, a video enthusiast, obsessively spies on a neighbor.
Comix, cuentos de amor, de video y de muerte
1995
1980s · 11 titles
5.1In this modern retelling of the Faust legend, a freelance photographer meets the enigmatic Mefi, who leads him, through a hole in the wall, to a room where a disembodied voice predicts stock prices.
The Hole in the Wall
1982
7.2After a brutal car accident, a young man falls into a coma and is left to be looked after by a doctor who suffers in his personal life and commits himself fully to save his patient.
To Realize
1984
4.2An anthropologist arrives on an island inhabited by two tribes, one dark-haired and the other blonde, and begins to form a close relationship with a young woman from the latter group. One of the few co-productions between Argentina and Sweden, this is an erotic comedy featuring actors from both countries.
Extrañas Salvajes
1988
7.0The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.
Night of the Pencils
1986
5.2Historical film that focuses on political and social events took place in Argentina during the beginning of the 30s. Santafecino Deputy Lisandro de la Torre complaint in Congress Argentine meat business with England.
Murder in The Senate
1984
4.0Laurita, a 40-year-old woman, accepts taboos of all kinds. In the search for an identity, she goes from one man to another, from the present to the past, from fantasy to reality. However, there is a tension that grows and grows, until it culminates in a surprise. Her memory goes back to review her loves and the different stages of her life: adolescence, her transgressing role and her fight against her own prejudices.
Los amores de Laurita
1986
5.2After a chance meeting, two former lovers look back on their relationship.
Flores robadas en los jardines de Quilmes
1985
9.0A little circus pawn and his trainer are sent to an unknown planet where, protected with his powerful shield, he fights robots.
The shield of the condor
1989
9.0A Swedish journalist in Buenos Aires is about to reveal the circumstances surrounding the young Swedish-Argentine woman Lena Melin's disappearance. The military junta of Argentina is threatening to deport him.
Los dueños del silencio
1987
7.1Luis is a righteous man who begins a struggle and a moral debate with his family, neighbors and close friends when a corrupt municipal official offers a very convenient "arrangement".
The Arrangement
1983
5.7An Argentine-executive of a multinational-returns to the country to close a factory. There he meets with his exgirlfriend and his best friend before the exile. The film presents an interpretation of the political and social situation in Argentina during the last years of the military government.
To Return
1982
Series credits
8.0The plot is based on the daily life of the Panigasi family, an impoverished middle-class family.
Gasoleros
1998
6.0Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
Killer Women
2005
5.4No synopsis available yet.
Tiempo final
2000
8.3This Spanish-language series chronicles the politics and events leading up to the most severe economic and social crisis in Argentina’s history since its return to democracy. At the center of a government in crisis, a political appointee works as a liaison between the current administration and opposition party figures who seek to rise to power.
Argentina 2001
2023
4.6Miguel "The Tiger" Verón, a union leader from meat sector, has to risk everything against his employers and enemies from justice.
The Tiger
2019
NRCarlín, a thirty-year-old Casanova, shares his rented apartment with an 18-year-old guy when his friend's son finds himself homeless. The clash of lifestyles sparks chaos.
Amigo son los amigos
—
No synopsis available yet.
Yolanda Luján
1984
NRInside the enigmatic Club Brillanté, the pianist Wilson Fernández recounts the love affairs with his 13 wives while events full of violence and criminality unfold.
Las 13 esposas de Wilson Fernández
2014
What happens if someone very similar to you pretends to be you and people believe them? And what happens if they do things that make you look bad? This is what happens to Martín Piroyansky.
Parecido
2018
