Con las alas rotas

In 1840, a caravan of carts headed from Buenos Aires to Córdoba carrying merchandise, ammunition and prisoners, against the background of the struggles between the Unitarians and the Federalists.

A rural businessman is robbed by a corrupt partner and his cadet son and good student aspires to run the business.

A woman helps a man escape from the police and ends up falling in love with him.

After reaching retirement age and leaving his job, a father devotes all his attention to helping his children transition smoothly into their adult lives.

A woman tries to prove his son's innocence, a taxi driver who is accused of murder.

The passionate love of a married woman and a single man.

In 1812, the Argentine people and the army of the north resist the royalist advances.

A retired army captain runs a farm using military methods.

Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.

The film tells the story of the natural son of a former president of Argentina and father of public education in the country, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, named Domingo, according to the first autobiographical accounts.

“My life was the same as that of thousands of gringos: I plowed and sowed the land, and went to the bar on Sunday.” Such is the refrain throughout LA PAMPA GRINGA, which endeavors to relate the sense of community built by the European settlers who in 1865 first colonized the town of Esperanza, located in Birri’s native province of Santa Fe. Largely consisting of juxtaposed daguerreotypes from the period and newspaper printings, LA PAMPA GRINGA exhibits Birri’s ability to weave narratives out of historical documentation in deft, admirable form.

The relationship of the young night school teacher with her students.

The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.

The conflict of a woman with her husband when she starts defending her individuality.

Juan Pérez is a waiter in a luxurious place where the bachelor party of a man who is going to get married for convenience is done. When a dancer and singer with whom he was entangled, chases him, he uses Perez to get rid of her.

Two middle-aged brothers fall in love with a tango singer they have met in a gambling hall, after she is stranded in their border mining town, causing them to turn against each other.