Carlos Schlieper

Carlos Schlieper

Birth : 1902-09-22, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Death : 1957-04-11

History

Carlos Schlieper (1902–1957) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter of the classic era. He directed some 30 films between 1939 and 1957, writing for over 20 of them. He was particularly noted for his romantic comedies in 1940s and 1950s.

Profile

Carlos Schlieper

Movies

Curse of the Stone Hand
Director
A house by the sea has stood vacant for many years, after misfortune befell several owners, which an artist painting the house explains to a passergy. A cross-editing of principal material from two Chilean films, LA CASA ESTA VACIA and LA DAMA DE LA MUERTE, with the addition of new American-made footage, to create a single story.
Las campanas de Teresa
Writer
A provincial girl who sells pots tries to obtain the bells that the church of her people needs.
Las campanas de Teresa
Director
A provincial girl who sells pots tries to obtain the bells that the church of her people needs.
Alejandra
Script
Alejandra
Director
My Husband and My Boyfriend
Writer
When a woman finds out that her husband is being unfaithful to her, she decides to give him a dose of his own medicine, making him jealous with another suitor.
My Husband and My Boyfriend
Director
When a woman finds out that her husband is being unfaithful to her, she decides to give him a dose of his own medicine, making him jealous with another suitor.
Requiebro
Director
A rancher fleeing from marriage is conquered by a Spanish singer.
Detective
Director
To preserve the happiness of his home, a detective transforms himself into different characters: a brave mexican, a French compliment, a tough German and a smiling lady.
Los ojos llenos de amor
Director
An extra breaks into the department of a movie star to seduce him.
Vuelva el primero!
Script
Mi mujer está loca
Screenplay
Due to something very strange, a woman transforms from a housewife into a vedette.
Mi mujer está loca
Director
Due to something very strange, a woman transforms from a housewife into a vedette.
Feminine Wiles
Writer
A man feels abandoned because his wife is too busy with her incredible success as a lawyer. Because of this, he ends up falling into infidelity and showing certain contradictions in his wife.
Feminine Wiles
Director
A man feels abandoned because his wife is too busy with her incredible success as a lawyer. Because of this, he ends up falling into infidelity and showing certain contradictions in his wife.
The Honorable Tenant
Writer
The Honorable Tenant
Director
Los árboles mueren de pie
Director
For over twenty years, an elderly man convinces his wife that their long-lost criminal grandson has changed his ways to become a successful professional and loving husband. When he learns of his grandson’s death, he decides to keep yet another secret and arranges for a false couple to pose as their exiled grandson and his wife. As the couple enters, uncertainties arise. Will they be able to convince her?
Arroz con leche
Screenplay
A runaway bride poses as a married woman and mother of twins to woo a suitor who only falls in love with married women.
Arroz con leche
Director
A runaway bride poses as a married woman and mother of twins to woo a suitor who only falls in love with married women.
Late-Model Wife
Writer
When a young woman who knows nothing about housework falls in love, her grandmother and nanny make her seem like the ideal housewife in front of her boyfriend.
Late-Model Wife
Director
When a young woman who knows nothing about housework falls in love, her grandmother and nanny make her seem like the ideal housewife in front of her boyfriend.
When My Husband Kisses
Screenplay
A high society woman discovers a fiery romantic letter in a raincoat pocket seemingly written by a rumba dancer to the woman’s doctor husband. He tries to cover by saying that the letter is addressed to a more conservative friend of his, leading to rumours of his friend’s (supposed) incredible passion becoming intriguing to the local women, even the Doctor’s own jealous wife.
When My Husband Kisses
Director
A high society woman discovers a fiery romantic letter in a raincoat pocket seemingly written by a rumba dancer to the woman’s doctor husband. He tries to cover by saying that the letter is addressed to a more conservative friend of his, leading to rumours of his friend’s (supposed) incredible passion becoming intriguing to the local women, even the Doctor’s own jealous wife.
Fascination
Director
The wife of a hypnotist lives in a state of uncertainty over whether she's with her husband out of love or if she's been a victim of his influence.
Cita en las estrellas
Director
A couple splits up and gets married to other people. After the man dies, the woman becomes delirious and thinks she's found him again in heaven.
Por ellos... todo
Director
Aging father watches his adult children grow into independence and leave the roost.
La serpiente de cascabel
Director
Juan Carlos Thorry is a police inspector who must solve the mystery of the death of the warden of a boarding school for young women, for which he goes undercover as a music teacher. The main suspect is the mischievous schoolgirl María Duval. A series of entanglements leads the protagonists to becoming romantically involved and to finding the culprit.
Madame Bovary
Director
Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
El misterioso tío Silas
Director
El retrato
Director
A repressed woman, unable to give love, is possessed by the spirit of her lewd grandmother.
Las tres ratas
Director
Three sisters become orphans. The eldest one will undertake the protection of the rest which involves a very hard task . Eventually, she will have to resign to her happiness.
La honra de los hombres
Director
In a fishing village a young woman carries the guilt of her married sister, passing through the mother of her son.
The House Is Empty
Director
This beautiful, atmospheric Chilean movie (made by an Argentinian director) was unfortunately "cannibalized" by Jerry Warren, who kept about a third of the original footage, together with another third of "La dama de la muerte" (another superb Chilean movie of the same period, made by Argentinian director Carlos Hugo Christensen), then added his own senseless "additional sequences" with John Carradine and Katherine Victor, the final result being the atrocious CURSE OF THE STONE HAND.
El deseo
Director
While her husband is abroad, Luisa receives a visit from an old love, her cousin, who becomes a "dangerous attraction". Her husband's stay abroad is prolonged and her loneliness overwhelms her and her attraction to her cousin increases.
The Armchair and the Grand Duchess
Writer
A Russian duke who's fallen on hard times tries to recover a stash of jewels hidden inside an armchair, but the chair gets sold at auction to a millionairess and he's forced to marry her in order to retrieve the treasure.
The Armchair and the Grand Duchess
Director
A Russian duke who's fallen on hard times tries to recover a stash of jewels hidden inside an armchair, but the chair gets sold at auction to a millionairess and he's forced to marry her in order to retrieve the treasure.
¡Secuestro sensacional!
Technical Advisor
After a 14 years old girl runs away from home, her family believes she's been kidnapped and a young man with good intentions is accused.
Bruma en el Riachuelo
Writer
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.
Bruma en el Riachuelo
Director
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.
Mañana me suicido
Writer
To get the love of a famous singer, a representative threatens to commit suicide if she does not marry him, pressed by guilt she agrees without suspecting that her new husband has too many unspeakable secrets.
Mañana me suicido
Director
To get the love of a famous singer, a representative threatens to commit suicide if she does not marry him, pressed by guilt she agrees without suspecting that her new husband has too many unspeakable secrets.
La novela de un joven pobre
Assistant Director
After losing all his fortune, a man assumes his poverty with dignity, confidence and effort. He faces all adversities and his nobility and perseverance make him succeed and be happy with the woman he loves.
La casa de los millones
Technical Advisor
A capricious "new rich" makes her employees suffer with her moods, until she hires a butler who will change her life.
Peluquería de señoras
Writer
A neighborhood hairdresser suddenly becomes a boxing champion and abandons his girlfriend to get engaged to a star.
Peluquería de señoras
Assistant Director
A neighborhood hairdresser suddenly becomes a boxing champion and abandons his girlfriend to get engaged to a star.
Papá tiene novia
Writer
When a widower's five daughters find out that he has a fiancée, they hire an actress to seduce him in order to end the relationship.
Papá tiene novia
Director
When a widower's five daughters find out that he has a fiancée, they hire an actress to seduce him in order to end the relationship.
If I Were Rich
Director
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.
El más infeliz del pueblo
Writer
A shy man marries the daughter of a local warlord, works as a municipal chief of staff, witnesses numerous injustices and rebels himself.
Cuatro corazones
Director
The perverse owner of a cabaret gets redemption by sacrificing himself for the happiness of others.