Leonardo Favio

Leonardo Favio

Birth : 1938-05-28, Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

Death : 2012-11-05

History

Fuad Jorge Jury (28 May 1938 – 5 November 2012), commonly known as Leonardo Favio, was an Argentine singer, actor, film director and screenwriter. He is considered one of Argentina’s best film directors and most enduring cultural figures as well as a popular singer-songwriter throughout Latin America.

Profile

Leonardo Favio
Leonardo Favio

Movies

Gente querible
Gente querible
Writer
Gente querible
Director
Aniceto
Writer
Love, passion, disappointment, pain and sadness shape this love triangle between Aniceto, Francisca and Lucía, played by dancers Hernán Piquín, Natalia Pelayo and Alejandra Baldón.
Aniceto
Director
Love, passion, disappointment, pain and sadness shape this love triangle between Aniceto, Francisca and Lucía, played by dancers Hernán Piquín, Natalia Pelayo and Alejandra Baldón.
Toby and the Magic Book
A boy who lives and works with his grandfather whom he helps put together cardboard finds a magical book that tells stories and turns them into reality. With the characters in his stories, he will share adventures that bring him closer to fulfilling his greatest desire, which is to have a mother.
Campo de sangre
Music
Perón, Symphony of Feeling
Writer
The documentary deals on the life and achievements of Juan Domingo Perón and his governments, the key political facts and figures and also about Argentine History in the 20th century.
Perón, Symphony of Feeling
Director
The documentary deals on the life and achievements of Juan Domingo Perón and his governments, the key political facts and figures and also about Argentine History in the 20th century.
Gatica multitudes
himself
A documentary short about the making of Gatica, el mono by argentine director Leonardo Favio. This film focuses on the particular way of directing that Favio had in big set pieces with huge crowds.
Gatica, the Monkey
Screenplay
The story of Jose Maria Gatica, better known as Gatica el Mono, Argentina's main boxing star during the 1940s and 50s.
Gatica, the Monkey
Director
The story of Jose Maria Gatica, better known as Gatica el Mono, Argentina's main boxing star during the 1940s and 50s.
El fantástico mundo de la María Montiel
Screenplay
A girl and her fantasy universe in the brick ovens.
Soñar, soñar
Director
Mario, “el Rulo,” is a wanderer who travels the country giving artistic performances. One day he passes through the town of Carlos, a municipal employee who dreams of being an artist. A friendship is born between the two of them, and Carlos leaves it all behind to follow Mario.
Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf
Writer
Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon but this doesn't occur to him. When he's older, he meets the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he turns his back on his newfound love, but if he refuses, he'll become a wolf.
Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf
Producer
Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon but this doesn't occur to him. When he's older, he meets the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he turns his back on his newfound love, but if he refuses, he'll become a wolf.
Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf
Director
Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon but this doesn't occur to him. When he's older, he meets the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he turns his back on his newfound love, but if he refuses, he'll become a wolf.
Juan Moreira
Writer
In the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by the powerful, either the police or landowners.
Juan Moreira
Producer
In the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by the powerful, either the police or landowners.
Juan Moreira
Director
In the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by the powerful, either the police or landowners.
Simplemente una rosa
Fuiste mía un verano
Songs
Fuiste mía un verano
Leonardo
The Dependent
(voice)
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.
The Dependent
Writer
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.
The Dependent
Director
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.
Martín Fierro
Martín Fierro's first son
The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.
The Eavesdropper
Santos
When a young fanatical nationalist suspects that his fellow pensioners - immigrants and zarzuela players - plan an attack on the president, he reports them to the police. In his adventure, he leaves behind a girlfriend and a lover, and ends up sharing his life with a disoriented girl.
The Romance of Aniceto and Francisca
Writer
Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.
The Romance of Aniceto and Francisca
Director
Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.
Chronicle of a Boy Alone
Fabián
The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.
Chronicle of a Boy Alone
Writer
The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.
Chronicle of a Boy Alone
Director
The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.
El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres
Pablo
The Venerable Ones
Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love begins to delve into the macabre logic of the group.
The Terrace
Rodolfo
A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but they threaten to jump down if any adults enter the terrace.
Racconto
Paula cautiva
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.
Dar la cara
Beto
Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina.
El bruto
A woman realizes her husband's brutality while he's away and other men are after her.
The Hand in the Trap
Miguel
This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic.
Fin de fiesta
Adolfo Peña Braceras
This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.
Todo el año es Navidad
Armando Echagüe / Roberto Echagüe
Film composed of different short stories, in which an envoy of God to the Earth (Raul Rossi) must help solving some small conflicts referring to human attitudes and relationships, such as solidarity, love and companionship.
The Friend
Director
This short features an unnamed boy who works as a shoeblack near a carnival. He befriends a middle-class boy one evening and gets a chance to spend time inside the carnival gate.
In Burning Darkness
In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in turn, slowly enters into a relationship with him that starts to transform the ways he perceives himself and his blindness.
The Boss
Marcelo
The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.
The Kidnapper
Berto
A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.
El ángel de España
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