Movies: Pedro Maratea

With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned eve...

A 1941 film....

A young man pretends to be his friends' aunt to solve certain problems....

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, ...

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....

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....

A humble bartender wants his minister brother to recognize the son of the woman he abandoned years ago....

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The story of different episodes that happen in each of the sections of a newspaper....

A gaucho flees from justice for murdering a man with whom his girlfriend was betraying him. He settles in a place where he falls in love with a woman, also desired by the local commissioner....

The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher....

A country girl falls in love with an English professor who's in the country studying fossils, but must return to his land....

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) ...

A gaucho kills a romantic rival in a duel, forcing him to flee....

The plot reflects the figure of Pascual Contursi, tango poet. In love with a singer, he leaves his wife and son to go with her. Some time later, the singer leaves him and he composes the tango that gives the film its title....

The romance between a mature doctor and a young girl, set in the mountains of Córdoba....

A sailor and a tango singer fall in love. To protect her, the man takes her to live with his family. But before embarking, he is robbed, and the circumstances accuse the girl of being an accomplice of the criminals....

A workers' strike provokes acts of violence and the death of the town's commissioner....

Film about the life of Francisco Ramírez, leader of Entre Ríos....

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....