Luis Otero

Luis Otero

Birth : 1910-12-31, Montevideo, Uruguay

Death : 1979-05-29

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Luis Otero

Movies

No Stars in the Jungle
Old Man
A white man searches for a legendary gold mine in the depths of the Peruvian jungle.
Un guapo del 900
The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
Culpable
Inspector Valerio
A criminal confronts the police by firing at them with a machine gun from the first floor of a villa on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and occasionally shooting down a policeman. The gunman has time to reflect, to load his gun, to run from one window to the other. Whoever leads the police notices the futility of his efforts and suspends the fire.
Virgin field
Plowed field
The story of a family that lives in a rural area of the province of Buenos Aires through three generations.
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.
La bestia humana
From Emile Zola's novel "La Bete Humaine", tells the story of a jealous husband, a provocative woman and a man with an uncontrollable desire to kill.
Missing Persons Section
Le vagabond
The love affair of an ex-convict with a showgirl, unleashes the jealousy of his older, wealthy and unbalanced wife. A murder plot, staged phoney suicide and other twists and turns follow.
La muerte flota en el río
El Zurdo
A policeman goes on the trail of a smuggling gang whose boss wants his girlfriend.
Los torturados
José
A parapolice force within Peronism is dedicated to reducing and extorting all kinds of opponents, among whom a few rise up to denounce what is happening. Although the film has propaganda purposes that deliberately ignore part of reality, it is based on documented cases, such as those of the student Ernesto Mario Bravo or the trade union leader Cipriano Reyes.
South of the 42nd parallel
Two young women taking charge of a sheep ranch, a doctor, an aging cabaret girl and a priest but heads with some wild-west style bandits who are terrorizing a part off back-country Patagonia.
Mercado de abasto
Caburé
The action occurs in Abasto Market in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A grown up single woman marries a mafia man who promised her he would change. After they've married, his past come to ruin the wife's life.
Leonora dos Sete Mares
A great mystery surrounds Leonora, and it becomes even more mysterious when a stranger arrives from Buenos Aires looking for her, saying he knows her. In love with her, he is desperate when they say she is dead. Not believing what they say, he continues his search. But upon finding her, he is faced with a cruel and unexpected enigma.
Del otro lado del puente
Mercado negro
Antonio
A policeman discovers that his girlfriend's father heads a drug smuggling band.
Dark River
A Peon
The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
Don't Ever Open That Door
Juan (segment “El pájaro cantor vuelve al hogar”)
A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
Sombras en la frontera
Turco
Episodes of the action of the gendarmerie against smuggling.
The Islanders
El entrerriano
Leandro and Carancha inhabit the islands located in the Parana delta. When their son brings home a girlfriend, her presence makes Carancha jealous and dramatic consequences ensue.
Cane concert
Jorge Ocampo
Romance en tres noches
A woman finds the opportunity to change her life when she meets and falls for a man who lives in a cabin far from the city.
El seductor
Julián Rosales
A train stops for a break in the station of a small town. That random moment allows the railway chief to fall in love with a beautiful passenger, who ends up wrapping him in a complex police plot.
Hombres a precio
Almafuerte
Biography of the Argentine poet Almafuerte.
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.
A Sangre Fría
Comisario Valdez
A couple plans to poison a wealthy elderly to stay with his fortune. However, the plans of the villain and his accomplice stagger at the last minute.
The Headless Woman
A gypsy performer and friend flee the circus troop they work for and find an old house to take refuge. Little do they realize that the house is haunted when they encounter strange men, frightening apparitions, and secret passages.
Milagro de amor
Margarita, the nun of a cloistered convent in charge of handling the lathe, this is a rotating mechanism provided with a small window through which she delivered and received things from the outside without direct visual contact, she is seduced by a Don Juan and induced to escape with him .
Savage Pampas
In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for deserting soldiers.
Besos perdidos
A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.
María Celeste
Pedro
After a storm, the captain of a ship lets it float aimlessly until he reaches an island paradise.
Madame Sans-Gêne
Mariscal Le Fevre
In Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.