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Malambo (1942)
Character: El emponchado
Based on a quechua legend, Malambo tells the story of a woman who lost her husband and son because of the greedy patrón of an hacienda. She swore that she would never remove the cloth over her eyes until her dead were avenged by the deaths of the patrón and his daughter. Nature seems to be on her side, since a drought has afflicted the land. Her other son, Malambo, accepts the duty of revenge. Malambo is no normal human: he is the runa-uturungo, or Hombre Tigre, of Quechua lore, and he cannot be wounded by bullets. He leads the obreros to rise in revolt and defeats the patrón. However, instead of killing the patrón's daughter--the blind Urpila --he falls in love with her, thereby breaking his mother's heart.
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Cadetes de San Martín (1937)
Character: N/A
A rural businessman is robbed by a corrupt partner and his cadet son and good student aspires to run the business.
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Nace la libertad (1949)
Character: N/A
In 1812, the Argentine people and the army of the north resist the royalist advances.
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Cita en la Frontera (1940)
Character: N/A
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.
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Tararira (la bohemia de hoy) (1936)
Character: N/A
A musical film with a performance by the group that was very fashionable at the time, El Cuarteto Aguilar. It was produced in 1936 but was never released.
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Huella (1940)
Character: N/A
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.
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Tierra del Fuego (1948)
Character: N/A
Several individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous people perpetrated by the landowners in the area.
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Su mejor alumno (1944)
Character: Bartolomé Mitre
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.
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De padre desconocido (1949)
Character: Fiscal García
A single mother is unjustly detained by the police. A lawyer, son of the judge in the case, falls in love with her.
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La cabalgata del circo (1945)
Character: N/A
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.
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Viento norte (1937)
Character: N/A
In an indigenous village a murder occurs, and young man is sentenced to death for it. However his father, the real culprit, takes the responsibility.
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Palermo (1937)
Character: N/A
A criminal tries to scam a horse racing fan using a seductive woman.
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Melgarejo (1937)
Character: N/A
An adultery-induced woman is helped by her driver who discovers the villains.
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Pelota de trapo (1948)
Character: Profesor Guillen
This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and the love and support of the grown ups.
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Paula cautiva (1963)
Character: Florencio Peña
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.
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Casa de muñecas (1943)
Character: Dr. Rank
The conflict of a woman with her husband when she starts defending her individuality.
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El Jefe (1958)
Character: Sr. Soto
The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.
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La Pampa Gringa (1963)
Character: N/A
“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.
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El pobre Pérez (1937)
Character: N/A
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.
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