Jorge Goldenberg

Writing

Jorge Goldenberg

Born

1941-10-19 (84)

Known for

Writing

Credits

35 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 1 titles

Behind the camera

The Art of Losing poster
6.1

A body is discovered impaled on a stake near a scenic lake near Bogota. A journalist try to find what happened. With a friend, they set about to find the cause of the crime and uncover an intricate real estate fraud involving corrupt politicians, emerald hunters, nudists...

The Art of Losing

2004

November poster
8.5

A dramatized account of Colombia's 1985 Palace of Justice siege combines fictional elements with historical footage, exploring themes of belief, turmoil, and lasting national trauma.

November

2025

The Strategy of the Snail poster
7.6

A group of tenants facing eviction due to a city renovation unite to fight back, but as they clash with the landlord and his ruthless attorney, they each transform into the opposite of who they once were.

The Strategy of the Snail

1993

Otra esperanza poster
7.0

A man who witnesses the casual disappearances of coworkers from a factory starts making investigations.

Otra esperanza

1996

Sentimental poster
10.0

Four friends, one of whom dies, and another, who discovers that he was killed, gets involved in a crime network.

Sentimental

1981

Sweet Money poster
6.9

A man meets a former military service buddy who offers him a good deal. Money starts pouring in, but things change from one day to the next.

Sweet Money

1982

The Southern Cross poster
6.0

Nora and Javier have been hired to transport a shipment of cocaine in an ambulance. With the help of Wendy, Javier's transvestite brother, they rob a part of the shipment and escape from the police. Moulded by loneliness, indifference and a lack of communication, Nora, Javier and Wendy are three youths with no future who move on the outer rim of society and are helpless in the face of a corrupt power. They hide in El Marquesado, a seaside resort built by the military on dynamited cliffs where Rodolfo and Mercedes, Javier and Wendy's parents, survive by rustling pigs and cows from neighbouring farms. The conflicts and tensions in this marginal family resurface as they are reunited in this remote place with a sinister past.

The Southern Cross

2003

The Impostor poster
4.7

This drama is based on a novel and incomplete screenplay by the late Maria Luis Bemberg. In 1930s Argentina, wealthy Sebastian (Antonio Birabent) leaves his Buenos Aires home for the family estate on the pampas. His family, concerned for his physical and mental health, arranges for Sebastian's childhood friend Juan (Walter Quiroz) to check on Sebastian's situation. Juan finds the highly erratic Sebastian caught in a doomed relationship with the Danish daughter of religious sect members. Unfortunately, Juan also becomes obsessed with the young woman, and Sebastian's suspicions increase.

The Impostor

1997

My Mexican Shivah poster
6.6

After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.

My Mexican Shivah

2007

¿De qué lado estás? poster
6.0

A former East Germany secret agent runs away fron his past and lands in Mexico under a fake identity. However he's caught by the Mexican secret police and forced to infiltrate a political activist group in the movement of 68. Helmut Busch (now Bruno) meets Adela, one of the activists, and he then faces dilemma.

¿De qué lado estás?

2002

Ilona Arrives with the Rain poster
6.9

Maqroll, Ilona, and Abdul all share a common dream: to sail the world in a tramp-steamer. But who could afford such a thing? Over the years they have become separated. Alone in Panama City, smuggler Maqroll is finding neither great success nor happiness — until the tropical rains come, bringing Ilona: friend, lover, and partner in crime. Abdul, in Morocco, has found a steamer to suit them. In Panama, Ilona and Maqroll begin a new scheme, in search of impossible wealth. But fate has further twists in store.

Ilona Arrives with the Rain

1996

Hachero nomás poster
6.0

The living and working conditions and the exploitation to which the "axemen" workers are subjected in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, in what was one of the most powerful companies of imperialism.

Hachero nomás

1966

Hachero nomás poster
6.0

The living and working conditions and the exploitation to which the "axemen" workers are subjected in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, in what was one of the most powerful companies of imperialism.

Hachero nomás

1966

Hachero nomás poster
6.0

The living and working conditions and the exploitation to which the "axemen" workers are subjected in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, in what was one of the most powerful companies of imperialism.

Hachero nomás

1966

Eversmile New Jersey poster
5.6

Traveling dentist O'Connell traverses South America on his motorcycle for the 'Eversmile' foundation of New Jersey, in a fight not only against cavities, but also against fear, ignorance, indifference - and established antediluvian dentists. During a stop at a lonesome garage he meets Estella, who is supposed to marry a few days later. However she'd rather come with him - to meet a former boyfriend in another town, she says. Expecting problems, he refuses to take her, but she tricks him into it and then tries hard to convince him of her qualities and let her stay with him.

Eversmile New Jersey

1989

The Messes of Susana poster
9.0

When a marriage separates, a teenage girl chooses to move in with her father.

The Messes of Susana

1986

Jewish Gauchos poster
7.1

The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.

Jewish Gauchos

1975

A King and His Movie poster
5.3

Buenos Aires movie director, very fond of the legend of the King of Patagonia and Araucania, decides to make a movie about it. Despite of financial troubles, technical problems, misfortune and desertions, he undertakes the journey to Patagonia for the film with a second-rate actor company. Neglected by the producer and shortly after by the company, he will make the movie alone, in a surreal landscape like mad.

A King and His Movie

1986

Miss Mary poster
6.7

A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a fascist movement is preparing to install itself in power.

Miss Mary

1986

El sueño de los héroes poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

El sueño de los héroes

1997

Pasajeros de una pesadilla poster
5.6

A family consisting of parents, two sons and a teenage daughter falls apart morally.

Pasajeros de una pesadilla

1984

The Escape poster
6.3

In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.

The Escape

2001

Juan que reía poster
7.2

Juan Libonatti, a seller of fine wines, like up in the company where he works. His car, a brand new Citroen, will be an essential tool to sell more wine in less time and be able to move up. But one day it is stolen and he had not paid the insurance fee. That will be the beginning of a tragedy that will lead to self-destruction.

Juan que reía

1976

El lugar donde estuvo el paraíso poster
5.5

In Iquitos, during the era of military dictatorships, a consul must face the arrival of a daughter he does not see in years and the stalking of a military collaborator diplomat who comes to discover his protection to a deserter pilot.

El lugar donde estuvo el paraíso

2002

The Color Out of Space poster
4.8

Campo Del Cielo, in Argentina, experienced a meteor shower thousands of years ago. Since then all kinds of people have come to the area in search of a part of the booty. Among them, the largest meteorite collector in the world, and at the same time smuggler, Robert Haag. A film that speaks of plunder and human folly.

The Color Out of Space

2014

Regreso a Fortín Olmos poster
NR

Documentary about another documentary by its director Patricio Coll and Jorge Goldenberg, "Hachero nomás".

Regreso a Fortín Olmos

2008

Regreso a Fortín Olmos poster
NR

Documentary about another documentary by its director Patricio Coll and Jorge Goldenberg, "Hachero nomás".

Regreso a Fortín Olmos

2008

Regreso a Fortín Olmos poster
NR

Documentary about another documentary by its director Patricio Coll and Jorge Goldenberg, "Hachero nomás".

Regreso a Fortín Olmos

2008

The Frontier poster
6.1

A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose father asks him to take her away. Although he gets his freedom he doesn't leave and when the water rises, Maite and her father die, and Ramiro flees to the hills.

The Frontier

1991

Dear Comrades poster
9.0

Directed by Pablo de la Barra, Queridos compañeros (1977) is a Chilean-Venezuelan political drama that delves into the fervent revolutionary movements of the late 1960s. The film follows a group of young radical leftists that struggle to change the Chilean political status quo. The production of Queridos compañeros faced significant challenges, since filming started in 1973 but was abruptly halted due to the military coup in Chile that year. Director Pablo de la Barra managed to save the film's footage but lost the original audio tracks. In exile in Venezuela, he reconstructed the sound with the help of the original actors, completing the film in 1977. The film offers a poignant reflection on the aspirations and struggles of a generation striving for systemic change, providing insight into the political dynamics of Chile during a tumultuous period.

Dear Comrades

1977

Reportaje a un vagón poster
NR

Short film produced by the Cinematography Institute of the National University of the Litoral. Short films such as "Tire die", "Feria Franca" and "Reportaje a un vagón", among others, portrayed the living and working conditions of segregated families and towns.

Reportaje a un vagón

1963

Enthusiasm poster
4.5

A man’s enthusiasm turns into greed and causes trouble for his family.

Enthusiasm

1998

Otilia Rauda poster
5.1

Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face.

Otilia Rauda

2002