Ralph Pappier

Art

Ralph Pappier

Born 1914-01-14

Ralph Pappier was a renowned Argentinian scenographer from the 40s and 50s, during Argentina's golden age of cinema. He also directed 10 films, most of them became classics.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Operación "G" poster
10.0

The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná.

Operación "G"

1962

Native Pony poster
8.0

A young horse breeder will show his grandfather how they can adapt to the times and prove his theory.

Native Pony

1953

El último payador poster
7.8

The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.

El último payador

1950

El festín de Satanás poster
10.0

With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned even in unfavorable reviews. Later, it became a cursed film, impossible to see due to lack of prints. To date, it remains lost in great part.

El festín de Satanás

1958

Ayer y hoy poster
10.0

This short film is the most famous Peronist propaganda piece, most likely due to the expressionist visual power of Pappier's imagery. It is based on a poem by José María Fernández Unsaín in which a couple of workers (Fanny Navarro and Pedro Maratea) compares a past of explotation and misery with the new Argentina of Peronist social justice.

Ayer y hoy

1951

La morocha poster
9.0

A prostitute persecuted by the police, receives the interested protection of a greedy merchant. He takes refuge in his house one night and meets his nephew, a sensitive boy who wants to be a musician.

La morocha

1958

Pobre mi madre querida poster
6.0

Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.

Pobre mi madre querida

1948

Esquiú, una luz en el sendero poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Esquiú, una luz en el sendero

1965

Delito poster
NR

A police officer joins a gang of smugglers to try to unmask its members.

Delito

1962

Allá donde el viento brama poster
NR

The action takes place in Comodo Rivadavia, and reenacts a 1907 mission lead by José Fuchs, who was supposed to find water but found oil instead.

Allá donde el viento brama

1963

Escuela de campeones poster
9.0

It is the reconstruction of the history of the Buenos Aires English High School and of the legendary Alumni club, made up of its students, who dominated Argentine football in the first decade of the 20th century and its president, Alejandro Watson Hutton, The first president of the Argentine Football Association, considered the father of Argentine football.

Escuela de campeones

1950