
Acting
Luis Medina Castro
Born — Died
1928-04-12 — 1995-05-22
Place of birth
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known for
Acting
Credits
44 titles
Known for
10.0El Pato faces a gang of spies who use a stuntman to seize an atomic pile.
Patolandia nuclear
1978
6.5Cacho Garibaldi is the soccer player of the moment, his goals lead to delirium fans. When an eccentric millionaire named Lupus buys his transfer, he expects to end up on a major team. Instead, he discovers the millionaire's goal in life is to collect the best -not art or stamps- but people.
That Forward Center Dies at Dawn
1961
8.0María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.
Blessed be you
1956
6.5Stories about a group of young people who spend a week at a coastal resort.
Los inconstantes
1963
The education received at home influences the future of some neighborhood boys of different economic status.
Ellos nos hicieron así
1953
7.6Mingo and Anibal are hired to embellish a mansion's garden, but a series of spooky events will soon take place.
Mingo y Aníbal en la mansión embrujada
1986
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
7.4The film is a fictional chronicle of a resonant police case that occurred in the city of Catamarca: the crime of the young María Soledad Morales, which had great public repercussion due to the links with the power of the culprits.
El caso María Soledad
1993
10.0No synopsis available yet.
El cóndor de oro
1996
1980s · 5 titles
7.6Mingo and Anibal are hired to embellish a mansion's garden, but a series of spooky events will soon take place.
Mingo y Aníbal en la mansión embrujada
1986
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Buenos Aires, la tercera fundación
1980
8.0The parallel accounts of the story of the Virgin of Luján in the seventeenth century and of a blind violinist who regains her vision during the Pope's visit to Argentina in 1982
La virgen gaucha
1987
5.0A widowed mother cannot prevent her child from dying from an overdose.
Las barras bravas
1985
7.0In 1965, a man named Matías is taken to a psychiatric hospital, after being found at the streets, "in the company of homosexuals and in a state of intoxication by alcohol and drugs". His documentation says he's 41 years old and born in Poland. He says his mother was an aristocrat. His arrival will have a profound impact on the institution and, especially, on one of the doctors.
El caso Matías
1985
1970s · 14 titles
10.0El Pato faces a gang of spies who use a stuntman to seize an atomic pile.
Patolandia nuclear
1978
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Difunta Correa
1975
6.8A beautiful woman who lives on an island is constantly harassed by men.
Furia en la isla
1978
8.0A geographical-musical walk through Argentina. Beautiful landscapes and the popular festivals of each region.
Esta es mi Argentina
1974
7.3Set around 1910 in the Chaco region, the film depicts the plight of quebracho woodcutters, cruelly exploited by English businessmen with the support of the authorities, local police, and a paramilitary force established by the employers themselves.
Quebracho
1974
Biopic of Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905), son of a Mapuche cacique and a white woman, and the first Indian of South America to be beatified. The film starts out as a war movie, showing his father Manuel battling the Spanish and taking a white woman as his captive bride. But little of interest happens after Ceferino is born. His beatification relies partly on his "miraculous" survival after falling in a stream as a baby, but the film does not present this with any great drama, and plods through the rest of the boy's life with similar tepor. Ceferino does well in school, attracts the interest of a priest, attends a Catholic school in Buenos Aires, and studies for the priesthood in Italy, where he dies of tuberculosis after a few unconvincing coughs.
Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá
1972
10.0An old gaucho tells his young friend about a time in the big city when he went to the Opera, and narrates to him the whole plot of Gounod's Faust. His young friend reimagines the story he's hearing, with himself in the central role.
El Fausto criollo
1979
9.0A man leaves his job working in the mining industry, falls in love with a girl and succeeds as a singer.
Si se calla el cantor
1973
7.7Some years from the life of a neighborhood tough in Buenos Aires around 1915.
Amalio Reyes, un hombre
1970
5.3A sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying.
La Mary
1974
6.0No synopsis available yet.
El principio del fin
1970
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mal de chagas
1970
10.0The son of a businessman neglected by his father and orphaned by a mother, goes to a group of friends. A typical gang of humble neighborhood boys, led by Chirola. The history of this gang is ruled by two magical characters, El Hada de la Esperanza represented by Liliana Rodríguez Morlino and El Pombero, a typical Formosan character-legend, played by Jaime Cohen. Through these boys the life of the social classes of the time is reflected, the innocence of the boys apart from those values and what children are capable of when they decide to transform things. During the story, the typical life of the province in which it was filmed, Formosa, and the daily life of the neighborhoods of the capital city that used to be a commercial port with Paraguay are highlighted.
The Unforgettable Gang
1972
10.0Following the life of Pampas boxer Mario Paladino, who died in the ring, this documentary delves into boxing as a job opportunity for men from the interior of the country.
Nosotros los monos
1971
1960s · 16 titles
6.5Cacho Garibaldi is the soccer player of the moment, his goals lead to delirium fans. When an eccentric millionaire named Lupus buys his transfer, he expects to end up on a major team. Instead, he discovers the millionaire's goal in life is to collect the best -not art or stamps- but people.
That Forward Center Dies at Dawn
1961
6.5Stories about a group of young people who spend a week at a coastal resort.
Los inconstantes
1963
NRA car salesman recounts his professional journey, from a clumsy beginning marked by invasive treatment and failed demonstrations to a successful fluency. This film Martínez Suárez made on commission for the Argentine automobile factory IKA.
El hombre de la víbora
1965
8.0The story of several women who reach motherhood in difficult conditions.
Maternidad sin hombres
1968
7.5A young man loses a hand after being attacked by a gang. A police inspector will make sure to find them and bring justice, whatever it takes.
Nadie oyó gritar a Cecilio Fuentes
1965
8.0A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
Viaje de una noche de verano
1965
6.7Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina.
Dar la cara
1962
7.0A man goes to a sorcerer to hasten his reunion with a woman, and the sorcerer gives him a mask that accelerates time.
Soluna
1969
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Esquiú, una luz en el sendero
1965
7.6The film refers to the romance between a young mechanic of humble working background and a university student from a well-to-do family of professionals who face the difficulties originated in their different social origins.
Los de la mesa 10
1960
9.0A bellicose Eastern power organizes a complicated plan to obtain the services of Professor Diego de Alcántara, a Spanish atomic scientist and father of Lola, a famous singer.
Kuma-Ching
1969
5.8The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the fields, alongside his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a lonely gaucho whom he admires and from whom he will learn to be a gaucho, following him in all his adventures. Don Segundo will be Fabio's role model.
Don Segundo Sombra
1969
6.1A philosophy teacher is raped by her night school students.
La patota
1960
7.4Three different love-related stories -all starring María Vaner as different "Anas". In "The Earth," Ana is a young and idealistic woman on the verge of adulthood when her first relationship with a clerk shatters her dreams of a romantic life. In "The Air," Ana is a rebellious, easy-living type among some beach bums whose sexual leanings tend to tip the scale at active promiscuity. In "The Cloud," Ana only exists in the imagination of an introverted man, who dreams of his ideal woman.
Three Times Ana
1961
No synopsis available yet.
Gotán
1965
8.0A group of youngsters, encouraged by their teacher, starts with guerrilla actions.
Los guerrilleros
1965
1950s · 7 titles
8.0María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.
Blessed be you
1956
The education received at home influences the future of some neighborhood boys of different economic status.
Ellos nos hicieron así
1953
10.0An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.
Pasó en mi barrio
1951
6.0Short film about the making of "El candidato".
Luz, cámara, acción
1959
A handsome newcomer in a village marries a local girl. A year or so later an abandoned baby is left on the couple's doorstep, a baby the man had with another woman. They decide to raise the kid along with the one they had together.
Guacho
1954
6.8A social drama centered on the miserable conditions experencied by cane cutters in Argentina's north.
Zafra
1959
8.5El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.
El grito sagrado
1954
