Mario Soffici
Directing
Biography
Mario Soffici (1900-1977) was an Italian-born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most important and renowned filmmakers during Argentina's golden age of cinema. He was known for his social movies, often filming in different provinces throughout the country.
Born: May 13, 1900
Place of Birth: Firenze, Toscana, Italia
Known For
Gray neighborhood
The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the less qualified workers or those who have recently arrived from the rural areas live in the industrial cordons.
Propiedad
Mario Soffici's last film. The story is about a beautiful young woman who is criticized by the town's old gossip women and is defended by a generous priest. She has an amorous relationship with a young orphan.
El curandero
A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.
Rosaura at 10 O'Clock
Out of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues his fellow boarding house tenants, so they involve themselves into his relationship until one day the mysterious Rosaura appears.
Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic
Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and her money manager, decides to sell the house and return to Buenos Aires; but the three men do not agree with her decision.
Cómo se hace una película argentina
Institutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film Festival in Mar del Plata. The film shows the technical process by which an Argentine film is produced and emphasizes the professionalism and power of the national film industry. In this way, the story explains in a pedagogical way what is a script, a frame, a camera, a set sketch and a projected background, among others, and how a scene and the soundtrack of a film are recorded.
Esta tierra es mía
The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.
The Strange Case of the Man and the Beast
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Isla brava
A young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended themselves against invading outlaws.
Tierra del Fuego
Several individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous people perpetrated by the landowners in the area.
Filmography
as Martín Saravia
as Anselmi
as Juez Santiago Ibáñez
as Padre de Rosaura
as Don Enrique
as Gervasio, el pintor
as Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
as El Linyera
as Don Antonio