
Directing
Luis Moglia Barth
Born — Died
1903-04-10 — 1984-06-18
Place of birth
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Luis José Moglia Barth (1903–1984) was a film director and screenwriter who directed numerous films in the early stages of Argentine cinema, including ¡Tango! (1933), considered the first Argentine sound feature film.
Known for
10.0In 1840, a caravan of carts headed from Buenos Aires to Córdoba carrying merchandise, ammunition and prisoners, against the background of the struggles between the Unitarians and the Federalists.
Huella
1940
10.0The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.
Cruza
1942
Tabloid journalists muddy the waters during the investigation of the murder of an Argentine senator.
Edición extra
1949
10.0A man is found dead in a music hall during one of the numbers, so the performance is suspended and the police begin to investigate.
Intermezzo criminal
1953
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Ponchos azules
1942
NRSet in 1874, the son of a mitrista accompanies a herd of cattle whose sale will allow to buy weapons.
Fortín alto
1941
Behind the camera
10.0In 1840, a caravan of carts headed from Buenos Aires to Córdoba carrying merchandise, ammunition and prisoners, against the background of the struggles between the Unitarians and the Federalists.
Huella
1940
10.0The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.
Cruza
1942
10.0The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.
Cruza
1942
Tabloid journalists muddy the waters during the investigation of the murder of an Argentine senator.
Edición extra
1949
10.0A man is found dead in a music hall during one of the numbers, so the performance is suspended and the police begin to investigate.
Intermezzo criminal
1953
10.0A man is found dead in a music hall during one of the numbers, so the performance is suspended and the police begin to investigate.
Intermezzo criminal
1953
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Ponchos azules
1942
NRSet in 1874, the son of a mitrista accompanies a herd of cattle whose sale will allow to buy weapons.
Fortín alto
1941
8.5The film narrates events of the Revolution of the Park, carried out by radical sympathizers on July 26, 1890. There is a secondary plot with the romance of a girl who, despite being in love with her father's godson, must contract a marriage with a banker that fails.
Boina blanca
1941
8.5The film narrates events of the Revolution of the Park, carried out by radical sympathizers on July 26, 1890. There is a secondary plot with the romance of a girl who, despite being in love with her father's godson, must contract a marriage with a banker that fails.
Boina blanca
1941
10.0The romance between Amalia Sáenz de Olabarrieta –a widow living in Buenos Aires– and the young Unitarian Eduardo Belgrano. Based on the novel by José Mármol.
Amalia
1936
10.0The romance between Amalia Sáenz de Olabarrieta –a widow living in Buenos Aires– and the young Unitarian Eduardo Belgrano. Based on the novel by José Mármol.
Amalia
1936
7.5A woman who misses her husband, who died in prison, is disputed between wine growers.
María Rosa
1946
The film's plot, which largely takes place in a cabaret, revolves around a worldly guy who had abandoned a mature lover for a younger and more beautiful one. It is very elementary and is just a pretext for a parade of popular songs. Currently considered lost.
Dancing
1933
The film's plot, which largely takes place in a cabaret, revolves around a worldly guy who had abandoned a mature lover for a younger and more beautiful one. It is very elementary and is just a pretext for a parade of popular songs. Currently considered lost.
Dancing
1933
7.5No synopsis available yet.
¡Goal!
1936
9.0An Argentinian and a Brazilian fall in love and at the same time, their couples do the same thing between them.
Don't Tell Me Goodbye
1950
9.0A shipyard owner rapes the daughter of a blind worker, unaware that she is his own son's girlfriend.
La fuerza ciega
1950
9.0A shipyard owner rapes the daughter of a blind worker, unaware that she is his own son's girlfriend.
La fuerza ciega
1950
NRA spy adventure intertwined with the famous magic lamp from the story of One Thousand and One Nights.
Dringue, Castrito y la lámpara de Aladino
1954
5.5A capricious lady resigns herself to work as the host of a female radio program where she sings jingles and gives advice on cooking and gardening, putting aside her love of police novels, but she will find herself involved in a murder.
Hogar, dulce hogar
1941
5.5A capricious lady resigns herself to work as the host of a female radio program where she sings jingles and gives advice on cooking and gardening, putting aside her love of police novels, but she will find herself involved in a murder.
Hogar, dulce hogar
1941
8.0A love story in the midst of historical accidents in Chile, through the revolution of 1891, the Valparaiso earthquake of 1906, the centenary celebrations of 1910 to the present, in 1944.
Romance de medio siglo
1944
7.0An habitant of the Paraná Delta is tempted to engage in smuggling but abandons it for the love of a teacher.
Picaflor
1935
7.0An habitant of the Paraná Delta is tempted to engage in smuggling but abandons it for the love of a teacher.
Picaflor
1935
7.5Group of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to stardom, romantic conflicts between the woman and two guys in the band and some peripheral crime-drama stuff.
Confesión
1940
7.5Group of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to stardom, romantic conflicts between the woman and two guys in the band and some peripheral crime-drama stuff.
Confesión
1940
NRThrough a succession of flashbacks, a grandfather tells his grandson about the outstanding episodes of the 1890 revolution, known as the "Revolution of the Park", against the government of Juárez Celman. Between the armed confrontations and the exaltation of the figure of Leandro N. Alem, the evocation includes a synthetic love story and culminates with the celebration of the second presidency of Hipólito Yrigoyen.
El 90
1928
7.0An impostor pretends to be the mother of a blind man so he can manage his assets. But things are changing because of the arrival of the person who takes care of the blind.
La senda oscura
1947
6.0No synopsis available yet.
La casa de Quirós
1937
6.0No synopsis available yet.
La casa de Quirós
1937
NRShort film that promotes women's voting rights, legalized in Argentina in 1947.
La mujer puede y debe votar
1951
A thief, after robbing a bank, meets by accident an aristocratic woman who asks for money to help an elderly asylum. They fall in love despite belonging to two different worlds.
El último encuentro
1938
NRAccording to historian Fernando Martín Peña, this film was produced by Julio Tello's Argentine Cinematographic Union distributor and premiered at the San Martín Theater as if it were French "presumably for reasons of respectability." After the campaign against him by the Catholic newspaper El Pueblo, San Martín took it down from the billboard. On November 4 it was announced that the film would be shown again in a downtown theater and finally on November 7 the interim mayor Adrián Fernández Castro resolved the ban for "amoral".
Aphrodite
1928
NRAccording to historian Fernando Martín Peña, this film was produced by Julio Tello's Argentine Cinematographic Union distributor and premiered at the San Martín Theater as if it were French "presumably for reasons of respectability." After the campaign against him by the Catholic newspaper El Pueblo, San Martín took it down from the billboard. On November 4 it was announced that the film would be shown again in a downtown theater and finally on November 7 the interim mayor Adrián Fernández Castro resolved the ban for "amoral".
Aphrodite
1928
7.0Adaptation of the homonymous novel by Eduardo Gutiérrez, inspired by a real police chronicle, starring a gaucho killed by the police in 1874. Juan Moreira's life was full of injustices and has been considered representative of those suffered by gauchos.
Juan Moreira
1948
7.0Love will reveal the double life of a woman who is a scientist by day and a singer by night.
La doctora Castañuelas
1950
7.0Love will reveal the double life of a woman who is a scientist by day and a singer by night.
La doctora Castañuelas
1950
7.5A thief ends up in the Riachuelo zone and after a revealing event, he stops stealing and starts working.
Riachuelo
1934
7.5A thief ends up in the Riachuelo zone and after a revealing event, he stops stealing and starts working.
Riachuelo
1934
