Directing

Fernando Ayala

Born July 2, 1920 · Gualeguay. Entre Ríos, Argentina

Died September 11, 1997 · aged 77

Fernando Ayala (2 July 1920 – 11 September 1997) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer of the classic era. He is widely considered one of the most important Argentine film directors and producers in the history of the cinema of Argentina. Demicheli initially began as a trainee assistant director in 1942, in El Viaje, and within two years he had become an assistant directo…

Known For

God Raises Them

God Raises Them · 1991

God Raises Them

Angel lives with his mother and has homosexual inclinations. One day he meets Mirna, a prostitute who has a son. The three try to form a strange family.

Open Day and Night

Open Day and Night · 1981

Open Day and Night

A motel that is open all day specializes in beautiful women, and a couple of men decide to visit their rooms.

The Boss

The Boss · 1958

MovieCrimeDrama

The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.

The Money

The Money · 1970

Stories whose common denominator is the lack of money: a young man who wants to capture a ticket, a boy-scout who dreams of singing the lottery jackpot, a frustrated self-robbery and a playboy who marries the daughter of a butcher.

The Candidate

The Candidate · 1959

An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.

Dock Sud

Dock Sud · 1953

A trolley falls from a bridge to the Riachuelo, killing almost all its passengers. The families of the victims receive compensation, they improve their lifestyles and look down on the worker who didn't take the trolley that mortal day.

Sweet Money

Sweet Money · 1982

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.

The Slowness

The Slowness · 1969

A typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work because it has a "lazy". His family, friends and colleagues are trying to dissuade him unsuccessfully at the beginning. But as time passed his situation complicated emotional and economically. These circumstances thwart his rebelliousness.

Filmography

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God Raises Them

God Raises Them · 1991

God Raises Them

Angel lives with his mother and has homosexual inclinations. One day he meets Mirna, a prostitute who has a son. The three try to form a strange family.

Director

Open Day and Night

Open Day and Night · 1981

Open Day and Night

A motel that is open all day specializes in beautiful women, and a couple of men decide to visit their rooms.

Director

The Boss

The Boss · 1958

MovieCrimeDrama

The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.

Director

The Money

The Money · 1970

Stories whose common denominator is the lack of money: a young man who wants to capture a ticket, a boy-scout who dreams of singing the lottery jackpot, a frustrated self-robbery and a playboy who marries the daughter of a butcher.

Director

The Candidate

The Candidate · 1959

An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.

Writer

Dock Sud

Dock Sud · 1953

A trolley falls from a bridge to the Riachuelo, killing almost all its passengers. The families of the victims receive compensation, they improve their lifestyles and look down on the worker who didn't take the trolley that mortal day.

Assistant Director

Sweet Money

Sweet Money · 1982

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.

Director

The Slowness

The Slowness · 1969

A typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work because it has a "lazy". His family, friends and colleagues are trying to dissuade him unsuccessfully at the beginning. But as time passed his situation complicated emotional and economically. These circumstances thwart his rebelliousness.

Director

Argentinísima

Argentinísima · 1972

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Consists of musical performances, mostly Argentine folklore, many of which are accompanied by dancing. Several sequences were filmed in scenic locations throughout the country.

Writer

Paula Cautiva

Paula Cautiva · 1963

An Argentine who emigrated to the United States finds himself by chance in Argentina for business. There he hires a woman, Paula, who is from a traditional but poor family, and he finds himself falling in love with her.

Director

Deshojando margaritas

Deshojando margaritas · 1946

Deshojando margaritas

Workaholic kindustrial tycoon is kidnapped and learns the value of a more leisurely lifestyle.

Assistant Director

Love's Successes

Love's Successes · 1979

Love's Successes

MovieComedyRomance

Leonor Capulletti and Quique Monteschi, fanatics of the same club, love each other in a passionate as well as conflictive courtship, because their respective families are allied in opposing and irreconcilable factions.

Producer

Night of the Pencils

Night of the Pencils · 1986

Night of the Pencils

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.

Producer

The Bitter Stems

The Bitter Stems · 1956

The Bitter Stems

MovieDramaThriller

Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school.

Director

No Exit

No Exit · 1962

The Valet enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano and Estelle Rigault, are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realising that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories. Adaptation of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Producer

Triangle of Four

Triangle of Four · 1975

Triangle of Four

In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman.

Director

Rebellion in Patagonia

Rebellion in Patagonia · 1974

Rebellion in Patagonia

MovieDramaHistory

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.

Producer

La gran ruta

La gran ruta · 1971

A group of boys decides to rob a hotel accommodation for seeking advice which an old offender. In parallel, we see different couples as they arrive at the same hotel and that there be at the time of the assault.

Director

Las vacaciones del amor

Las vacaciones del amor · 1981

Las vacaciones del amor

MovieMusicComedy

A group of high school students make their end-of-year trip to Bariloche. The excursion is complicated when it is discovered that the travel agency that takes them has scammed them

Producer

Days of Delusion

Days of Delusion · 1980

Days of Delusion

MovieDramaFantasy

A woman and her daughter live in the unreality of a fantasy life, but soon this magic is interrupted by the disappearance of the mother.

Director

Grandma

Grandma · 1979

MovieDramaComedy

The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.

Producer

La melodía perdida

La melodía perdida · 1952

La melodía perdida

A conflict arises when a girl whose father has died does not accept that her mother remarry.

Assistant Director

Discotheque of love

Discotheque of love · 1980

Discotheque of love

MovieComedyThriller

Music execs find out their songs are being pirated, so a detective and his assistant are hired to catch the culprits.

Producer

The Dead Man

The Dead Man · 1975

Benjamin Ortalora is a young man who leaves Buenos Aires after murdering a rival. He goes to Montevideo where his cool boldness draws the attention of gang leader Azevedo Bandeira. When the old bandit becomes ill, Ortalora makes a determined play to take his place.

Producer