Homero Cárpena

Homero Cárpena

Birth : 1910-02-14, Mar del Plata, Argentina

Death : 2001-01-17

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Homero Cárpena

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Olga, la hija de aquella princesa rusa
The Patagonic Teacher
After filming the hippie professor Luis Sandrini filmed this sequel to the above, following the sanctions imposed on it by Professor Horacio Montesano, sending him to Patagonia to a secondary school. Among the supporting cast is the famous singer Piero (he even play many of their good songs).
The Hippie Teacher
Profesor Salvatierra
Luis Sandrini plays a college professor who, because of his freethinking attitudes and concerns for moral questions over matters of business, has more in common with his students than his colleagues.
Kuma-Ching
General Chang
A bellicose Eastern power organizes a complicated plan to obtain the services of Professor Diego de Alcántara, a Spanish atomic scientist and father of Lola, a famous singer.
Tres historias fantásticas
The film is made up of three independent stories: The Network, The Experiment and The Deer of the Seven Roses.
La cigarra no es un bicho
Gerente del hotel
The vicissitudes of six different couples who arrive at a hostel in Buenos Aires called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of a supposed bubonic plague, causing all kinds of inconveniences and entanglements as a result of this forced coexistence.
Detrás de la mentira
Instructor
An industrialist's son becomes part of the communist party.
Operación
André
The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná.
Delito
Daniel
A police officer joins a gang of smugglers to try to unmask its members.
The Ruffian
An amnesiac carnival psychic is haunted by the thought that a man is coming to kill her.
Anguish of a Secret
Valentín
A priest is unjustly sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. The surprise will be greater when he, while in prison, knows who the murderer is through the confession of his daughter.
El hombre señalado
This relentlessly realistic Argentine production was released in the U.S. as The Marked Man. The title character is a poverty-stricken janitor who suddenly wins an enormous sum in the National lottery. Spending money before he actually collects it, the janitor is appalled to discover that his wife has inadvertently sold the winning ticket to a door-to-door peddler. The ticket was hidden in the band of an old straw hat, which passes through several hands as the janitor frantically searches for the precious headgear. What might have been handled as a farce by another director is transformed into a stark, utterly credible urban tragedy by director Francis Laurie.
Se necesita un hombre con cara de infeliz
Director
The head of a criminal gang hires a man to rescue some compromising documents.
María Magdalena
A prostitute helps a scientist who deliberately infects himself to test the efficacy of a vaccine.
El cartero
A provincial postman shares with the inhabitants of a small town the joys and sorrows caused by the correspondence he delivers.
El cartero
Director
A provincial postman shares with the inhabitants of a small town the joys and sorrows caused by the correspondence he delivers.
Stella Maris
Writer
Aspects of the life of a group of fishermen.
Stella Maris
Director
Aspects of the life of a group of fishermen.
Las zapatillas coloradas
Two detectives are hired to investigate the theft of essential shoes for a famous dancer.
If I Should Die Before I Wake
Lunático
While committing a prank, a child accidentally discovers the identity of the criminal who keeps the whole neighborhood on alert. For fear of being punished, he does not tell what he knows to his father, a police officer.
El zorro pierde el pelo
Cayetano Orloff
A womanizer's girlfriend and future father-in-law try to teach him a lesson.
La vendedora de fantasías
Márido de Olga
A store clerk, a detective, the robbery of a necklace and a murder.
El cielo en las manos
Original Music Composer
Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.
El cielo en las manos
Screenplay
Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.
El cielo en las manos
Author
Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.
El cielo en las manos
Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.
Big five and a girl
Antón de Rizzo
Fascination
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.
Yo no elegí mi vida
Polizón en tren
Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence.
Hardly a Criminal
A bank employee uses a loophole in Argentine law to concoct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement after serving six years in prison…
Fúlmine
A married man usually has very bad luck until he wins the lottery.
La otra y yo
El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada
A woman fond of spiritualism and neglected by her husband starts an affair with an American industrialist.
Las aventuras de Jack
In the 19th century, the son of a frivolous countess faces the rigors of a tragic life.
El tambor de Tacuarí
After the May Revolution occurred, a young man abandoned his royalist uncle and became a drummer for the revolutionary army and his father's guide.
Story of a Bad Woman
Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house.
La locura de Don Juan
Raimundo
La serpiente de cascabel
Morales
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.
Un ángel sin pantalones
El misterioso tío Silas
William
Tres millones... y el amor
A thief going to rob an unscrupulous industrialist falls in love with a young woman and turns himself in to the police to save a thief friend.
Cuando en el cielo pasen lista
The life and work of philanthropist and educator William Case Morris (1864-1932).
Besos perdidos
A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.
Villa Rica del Espíritu Santo
The Immovable Loved One
The loves of Ana Cecilia Luisa Deillez with the Mexican poet Amado Nervo.
Chiruca
Se abre el abismo
Gregorio Andrada
The arbitrariness of an evil father leads his children to patricide.
Madame Sans-Gêne
Fouchet, duque de Otranto
In Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.
El fin de la noche
A singer is trapped in France by the unforeseen outbreak of World War II and a man who serves the German occupiers demands, in exchange for safe conduct for herself and her daughter, to act as a spy and informer for members of the Resistance.
Cuando la primavera se equivoca
Miguel
A young woman falls asleep at the gates of an old farm; in her dream she is transported to another century where she suffers for love.
La casta Susana
The wife of an officer receives a "prize for virtue" from one of her many lovers, causing several misunderstandings.
Nuestra Natacha
A 1944 film.
La importancia de ser ladrón
A modest employee of exemplary behavior is mistakenly accused of committing a major fraud.
El deseo
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.
Su mejor alumno
Three Men of the River
The film is based on an old Argentine legend about an Aztec girl who is raped and murdered by vandals and dumped in a river. A flower blossoms at the place in which she was killed and misfortune falls upon the culprits.
Cuando florezca el naranjo
A new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival upsets the discipline of the beautiful students.
Cruza
The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.
El gran secreto
A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.
Cada hogar, un mundo
The Gaucho Priest
The life of José Gabriel Brochero, the Cordovan priest who dedicated his life to those most in need.
El mozo número 13
Dr. Jeremías
Novios para las muchachas
Chingolo
Carbonillo
Encadenado
Prisoners of the Land
Argentina, 1915. Accompanied by a doctor and his beautiful daughter, Köhner, a ruthless foreman who rules a yerba mate plantation with an iron fist, arrives in the city of Posadas with the purpose of hiring workers.
...Y los sueños pasan
Four young artists who live in a boarding house fall in love with the new lodger.
Frente a la vida
A man leaves his girlfriend, but she still sacrifices her happiness to procure his.
Nativa
The love triangle of a journalist, a political leader and his wife.
Los caranchos de la Florida
The film deals with the conflict between a father, master of a cattle ranch, and his son, who has returned after study.
La fuga
Don Onofrio
Daniel, a smuggler is chased by a policeman. In his escape are helped by the messages that his lover transmits to him in code by means of the tangos that sings in a radio program. To hide himself, he pretends to be a teacher in a small town in Entre Ríos, and by the time he discovers it, the police have already faced a new life.
Los millones de Semillita
Writer