Homero Manzi

Homero Manzi

Birth : , Añatuya, Santiago del Estero, Argentina

History

Homero Manzi (1907–1951), whose birth name was Homero Nicolás Manzione, was an Argentine poet, politician, tango lyricist, screenwriter and film director.

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Homero Manzi

Movies

Inertia
Music
A fateful phone call changes a young man's life forever, as he's left wandering around with nowhere to look but inside - And that's the very last thing he wants to do.
Savage Pampas
Novel
An Army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang.
With music in the soul
Writer
An orchestra director had a son as a result of an affair in his youth and hides the fact from his wife. But the young man succeeds as a musician and the truth soon comes to light.
Escuela de campeones
Writer
It is the reconstruction of the history of the Buenos Aires English High School and of the legendary Alumni club, made up of its students, who dominated Argentine football in the first decade of the 20th century and its president, Alejandro Watson Hutton, The first president of the Argentine Football Association, considered the father of Argentine football.
El último payador
Writer
The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.
El último payador
Director
The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.
Corrientes, calle de ensueños
Songs
Story about a humble musician who triumphs overcoming his failures and a young woman arrives in Buenos Aires from the interior of the country in search of triumph but finds death.
De padre desconocido
Writer
A single mother is unjustly detained by the police. A lawyer, son of the judge in the case, falls in love with her.
Passport to Rio
Songs
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, the showgirl meets a doctor with whom she begins a romance while the criminal falls in love with her.
Pobre mi madre querida
Writer
Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.
Pobre mi madre querida
Director
Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.
Como tú lo soñaste
Writer
The wife of a butcher imagines that her son is actually the fruit of her relationship with a famous singer, of whom she is secretly in love.
Nunca te diré adiós
Writer
The passionate love of a married woman and a single man.
Rosa de América
Writer
The life of Saint Rosa de Lima.
Donde mueren las palabras
Writer
An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.
Savage Pampas
Dialogue
In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for deserting soldiers.
Savage Pampas
Story
In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for deserting soldiers.
Su mejor alumno
Writer
A Real Man
Writer
A foreign woman marries a rich man.
Eclipse de sol
Screenplay
A vaudeville singer secretly marries a wealthy landowner, who soon returns to his ranch, fearing the rejection of his snobbish family. To teach him a lesson, she shows up at his estancia pretending to be a maid.
The Gaucho War
Writer
The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
Ceniza al viento
Writer
The story of different episodes that happen in each of the sections of a newspaper.
The Old Skinflint
Writer
An Italian immigrant accumulates wealth for their children, all consider him a miserable, until one day one of her children gives a very big disappointment and dies of a heart attack. Their children begin to spend the fortune he had amassed his father.
El camino de las llamas
Writer
A Chilean spy pretends to love an Indian woman, the only one who knows a secret passage in the Andes mountain range.
Fortín alto
Writer
Con el dedo en el gatillo
Writer
Confesión
Writer
Group of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to stardom, romantic conflicts between the woman and two guys in the band and some peripheral crime-drama stuff.
Huella
Writer
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.
Turbión
Dialogue
Two gangs of drug traffickers try to control the monopoly of drugs in the city, while the police commissioner tries to kill them with the help of a snitch, "the puppet".
Los caranchos de la Florida
Music
The film deals with the conflict between a father, master of a cattle ranch, and his son, who has returned after study.
Nobleza gaucha
Music
It narrates the struggle of a rural worker to rescue the daughter of a farmer from the clutches of a wicked foreman.
Nobleza gaucha
Screenplay
It narrates the struggle of a rural worker to rescue the daughter of a farmer from the clutches of a wicked foreman.
¡Tango!
Music
¡Tango! follows a formula established by Carlos Gardel with films such as Luces de Buenos Aires (The Lights of Buenos Aires, 1931) in which a melodramatic story is interspersed with tango songs. However, the film had less dialog and more music, making it more like a musical revue. This format would be copied by many subsequent films. The plot is derived from tango songs. Many of these songs tell of the seduction of an innocent slum girl by a rich man who promises her a glamorous life, but who abandons her when her looks fade. The stylized and sentimental plot of ¡Tango! revolves around a young man who is abandoned by his girlfriend for an older rich man and is heartbroken. The film follows his misfortunes.