Pedro Maratea
Acting
Biography
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Known For
Bruma en el Riachuelo
A girl leaves her home after the man who left her with a daughter and a young man who falls in love with her protects her from him.
El comisario de Tranco Largo
A workers' strike provokes acts of violence and the death of the town's commissioner.
Ayer y hoy
This short film is the most famous Peronist propaganda piece, most likely due to the expressionist visual power of Pappier's imagery. It is based on a poem by José María Fernández Unsaín in which a couple of workers (Fanny Navarro and Pedro Maratea) compares a past of explotation and misery with the new Argentina of Peronist social justice.
El hombre del sábado
If I Were Rich
A screwball comedy about a young barrio songstress and pickpocket who, while escaping after nicking a woman's wallet, is hired to model for an agency. There she discovers a new world when she mixes with the rich and finds love among them.
Outside the Law
A delinquent, the son of a police commissioner, leaves prison to seduce someone who should be like a sister to him: a girl raised and loved by his parents. To force her to give in to his obsession, he kidnaps her little daughter.
Passport to Rio
A thief commits a robbery and is seen by a showgirl who becomes a witness to the crime. The man finds her and forces her to help him take what he stole to Rio de Janeiro. With no other way out, she is sent on a boat to Brazil by the thief. On board, the showgirl meets a doctor with whom she begins a romance while the criminal falls in love with her.
El inglés de los güesos
A country girl falls in love with an English professor who's in the country studying fossils, but must return to his land.
Santos Vega vuelve
A singer takes possession of a ranch and receives the mission to avenge his ancestor Santos Vega, that legendary payador, and defeat Juan Sin Ropa.
Suburbio
Two sisters struggle to get out of a Buenos Aires suburb, where debts with a loan shark have kept them apart. But soon the inhabitants of the neighborhood forget their differences before the appearance of an epidemic.
Filmography
as Segmento "La traición"
as Don Carlos Junquera
as Mario Rudnovi
as Juan Sin Ropa
as Carlos
as Raúl
as Santos Telmo
as Marú
as Pitagoras
as Juan Carlos Peña
as Enrique Varela
as Crisanto Reparaz