José María Gutiérrez

Operación Masacre

In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story.

La procesión

The pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján causes the meeting of people of different classes.

El hombre señalado

This relentlessly realistic Argentine production was released in the U.S. as The Marked Man. The title character is a poverty-stricken janitor who suddenly wins an enormous sum in the National lottery. Spending money before he actually collects it, the janitor is appalled to discover that his wife has inadvertently sold the winning ticket to a door-to-door peddler. The ticket was hidden in the band of an old straw hat, which passes through several hands as the janitor frantically searches for the precious headgear. What might have been handled as a farce by another director is transformed into a stark, utterly credible urban tragedy by director Francis Laurie.

Albéniz

Isaac Albéniz was a child prodigy, and the victim of a tyrannical father. He flees from his house, to America. He returns to his country years later, where he achieves international fame and the attention of many women.

El derecho de gozar

A beautiful woman is married to a film director. Despite the apparent happiness of the marriage, she has an affair with a young womanizer, and flirts with a screenwriter. During the filming of a film directed by her husband, two actresses are mysteriously murdered.

María de los Ángeles

Set in 1825, the romance between a Creole woman and a Spaniard, during the Argentine War of Independence.

Rebellion in Patagonia

In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.

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