
Acting
María Vaner
Born 1935-03-23 · Madrid, Spain
María Vaner, born Marilyn Aleandro (1935-2008), was an Argentine actress. She appeared in nearly 50 films and television shows between 1958 and 2008. The daughter of Pedro Aleandro, her sister is actress Norma Aleandro. She had two sons with Argentinian singer, songwriter, actor and director Leonardo Favio.
Acting credits
5.7A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.
The Kidnapper
1958
5.9It tells the story of four Jewish boys during a few summer days at the country club where their parents take them, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in 1993. Within the club, the four define themselves as outsiders, since they do not participate in the sports activities that are practiced there, and therefore do not fit into the logic that governs the place, being permanently bothered and mocked by the rest of the children of their age.
Cheese Head
2006
4.0An old man named Geppetto creates a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who comes to life
Pinocchio
1986
6.3After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.
The Headless Woman
2008
10.0After seven years in jail, a woman is released and has to re-enter society.
A Woman...
1975
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
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
6.3A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.
Heroína
1972
5.7No synopsis available yet.
La insólita y gloriosa hazaña del cipote de Archidona
1979
4.0Buenos Aires, 1920. The Franco-Argentine and Polish-Argentine mafia begin a war for the control of the traffic of women and prostitution, based on real events about the 1920s Buenos Aires Mafias war.
The Bad Life
1973
6.8The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in authoritarian Argentina.
Chronicle of a Boy Alone
1965
5.8A former Triple A (Argentine anti-communist alliance) is abandoned by his former colleagues after the Argentine dictatorship falls, in the course of his solitude he slowly becomes more insane and falls further into dementia, at the same time as one of the parents of the many children that he murdered and tortured during the dictatorship persecute him for revenge.
In Retirement
1984
5.8Set in Buenos Aires. A man is called upon to identify and evaluate an unfinished and enigmatic painting thought to be the work of the famous painter, Bax. Slowly he finds himself enmeshed in the mysteries of its identification leading him slowly to murder, insanity and death.
Corps perdus
1990
6.0The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires. The film shows the teenage Raulito wandering between a reformatory for juvenile offenders, prison and psychiatric hospital. Raulito manages to escape, and finds work at Constitución railway station in Barrio Constitución. Raulito meets up with another street child and they become close friends. They both eventually manage to escape to Mar del Plata.
La Raulito
1975
10.0Drama that takes place in La Rioja, Argentina, about the story of a young girl wanted by three men.
Simiente humana
1959
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
9.0A 16-year-old young man, is fond of weapons and the manufacture of explosives. He participates in robberies and is persecuted by the Police, so his group of friends dissolves and he goes to live in another neighborhood and starts working in a bookstore. Dissatisfied, without expectations and full of resentment, Silvio tries to set the place on fire and flees through the city
The Angry Toy
1998
6.0An old boat is a silent witness of how the lives of the characters on board are fleetingly intertwined on a predetermined day.
The boat, the river and the people
1960
6.3Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.
The Romance of Aniceto and Francisca
1967
10.0In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in turn, slowly enters into a relationship with him that starts to transform the ways he perceives himself and his blindness.
In Burning Darkness
1959
10.0A woman tries to prove his son's innocence, a taxi driver who is accused of murder.
El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres
1964
7.0The disputes between two leaders, set in 1930s Cuidad de Buenos Aires.
Proceso a la infamia
1978
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
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