Alberto Etchebehere

Birth : 1903-01-01, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Death : 1965-01-01

Movies

The Eavesdropper
Director of Photography
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.
Las locas del conventillo
Director of Photography
The neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, is divided in two sectors: one is where decent people live under the tutelage of Magdalena, in the other, Manuel,ir responsible of a nightclub. Among decent people live Manolo, the milkman, awaiting the arrival of a Spanish woman to marry her. At the same time, the villain of Manuel also hopes for a Spanish nightclub. Women Arrivals weapon confusion.
Viaje de una noche de verano
Director of Photography
A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
Con gusto a rabia
Cinematography
A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital.
Mujeres perdidas
Visual Effects Camera
In an art academy that serves as a screen for a strip club, a pimp falls in love with one of the prostitutes, but she sells herself to a rich man.
Placeres conyugales
Director of Photography
El club del clan
Director of Photography
The Innocents
Cinematography
A bank employee changes his life radically after the tragic death of his wife in a car accident along with a widower industrial.
La cigarra no es un bicho
Director of Photography
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.
Paula cautiva
Cinematography
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.
Racconto
Director of Photography
Bajo un mismo rostro
Cinematography
Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is carnal.
Man on Pink Corner
Director of Photography
During a local festival, a mysterious stranger appears in town, heading towards a violent confrontation.
Prisioneros de una noche
Cinematography
A man and a woman fall in love in the streets of a nocturnal Buenos Aires.
Homenaje a la hora de la siesta
Cinematography
The widows of four missionaries condemned by the Indians to die at the stake, go to the Amazon jungle to pay homage to them.
La novia
Cinematography
The Hand in the Trap
Director of Photography
This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic.
Hijo de hombre
Cinematography
Story set at the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay.
La cumparsita
Director of Photography
¡Viva quien sabe querer!
Director of Photography
Ranchera singer and his sidekick travel to Argentina to mix it up with a playboy who bragged to them about the tour he'd book for them.
Plaza Huincul (Pozo uno)
Director of Photography
Gringalet
Director of Photography
In Burning Darkness
Cinematography
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.
La caída
Cinematography
A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and children. An attorney falls for the student, but the couple experiences problems when she declines to leave what he refers to as "that lunatic asylum."
Procesado 1040
Cinematography
Elderly suburban man is imprisoned over a misunderstanding about some garden utensils.
Amor se dice cantando
Director of Photography
Mexican singer touring Argentina wins a country estate in a poker game.
The Kidnapper
Cinematography
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.
La hermosa mentira
Director of Photography
Las campanas de Teresa
Cinematography
A provincial girl who sells pots tries to obtain the bells that the church of her people needs.
La bestia humana
Cinematography
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.
Beyond Oblivion
Director of Photography
After a period of sorrow, Fernando de Arellano, a rich businessman who has recently lost his young wife Blanca from a serious ilness, meets Mónica, who looks identical to her.
El juramento de Lagardere
Cinematography
Para vestir santos
Cinematography
A humble woman breaks her relationship with her boyfriend and dedicates herself to taking care of her siblings, as they grow up she is left alone.
María Magdalena
Director of Photography
A prostitute helps a scientist who deliberately infects himself to test the efficacy of a vaccine.
Guacho
Cinematography
A handsome newcomer in a village marries a local girl. A year or so later an abandoned baby is left on the couple's doorstep, a baby the man had with another woman. They decide to raise the kid along with the one they had together.
The Black Vampire
Writer
This loose remake of Fritz Lang's classic M, about the search for a child murderer, focuses on a nightclub singer who catches sight of the killer and on the morally conflicted prosecutor leading the investigation.
La niña del gato
Writer
A girl commits a crime first by her father and then by criminals.
El conde de Montecristo
Cinematography
Edmundo Dantes is betrayed by his best friend, who has him killed to keep his property and his love. But after a few years, a certain Count appears to mortify the life of the traitorous friend.
The Beast Must Die
Director of Photography
A writer whose son was killed in a hit-and-run goes in search of the driver to get revenge.
Dishonor
Cinematography
The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
Esta es mi vida
Cinematography
La orquídea
Cinematography
El hincha
Cinematography
A mature mechanical worker, a football fanatic, finds the meaning of his life in encouraging, following and collaborating with the club of his loves.
Soñemos
Director of Photography
Overview of the operation of the Children's City of the Eva Perón Foundation.
El otro yo de Marcela
Cinematography
Two husbands use a shy teacher to cover up their infidelities, but the one out of naivety makes wives and lovers meet.
The Marihuana Story
Cinematography
Pablo Urioste is a respected surgeon, but he is forced to experience a nightmarish world after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies at a nightclub. He tells his story to the police, and tells stories of how he is hooked, beaten, blackmailed, and includes some bad-trip flashbacks. Ms. Quiroga tries to help him, but there is little hope for Dr. Urioste after undergoing THE MARIHUANA STORY.
La vendedora de fantasías
Cinematography
A store clerk, a detective, the robbery of a necklace and a murder.
Nacha Regules
Director of Photography
Almafuerte
Director of Photography
Biography of the Argentine poet Almafuerte.
Mujeres que bailan
Cinematography
A woman dreams of being a great classical dancer and that the public cheers her on, which gives rise to the most absurd situations.
Juan Globo
Director of Photography
A humble boy can not be a sailor as he wishes, for lack of documents, and works as a driver for an old woman.
Don Juan Tenorio
Director of Photography
A retired actor decides to donate his savings to his nephew and move to an old house, there he meets an old love.
Un tropezón cualquiera da en la vida
Director of Photography
Story of a Bad Woman
Cinematography
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.
God Bless You
Director of Photography
A player wife, Nancy, who holds elegance to disguise their poverty while waiting for a wealthy man appears and deal with it, talk to the old man begging at the door of a casino. Soon after, a mysterious suitor offers a life of luxury.
Navidad de los pobres
Director of Photography
A woman finds herself in trouble from a single mother whose father has stolen her child and decides to protect her.
Un ángel sin pantalones
Director of Photography
A Sangre Fría
Cinematography
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
Cinematography
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.
María Rosa
Writer
Mosquita muerta
Director of Photography
In an all-girls boarding school, one of the students resists the will of her uncles to marry her off because she does not know her future husband. Which is why she pretends to be a prude for whom marriage is a dirty word.
Cinco besos
Cinematography
Love affairs in a theater: vedettes, sweethearts of chorus and scandals that include a millionaire.
Celos
Cinematography
Argentinian adaptation of "The Kreutzer Sonata" by Leo Tolstoy.
Cuando en el cielo pasen lista
Cinematography
The life and work of philanthropist and educator William Case Morris (1864-1932).
Éramos seis
Cinematography
A mother recounts the different stages experienced by her family.
Dos ángeles y un pecador
Cinematography
A guardian angel accompanies a man who had made a deal with death, which he regrets for a woman.
Santa Cándida
Cinematography
A woman of high society dies, leaving a large part of her assets to her domestic worker, who must deal with the envy and jealousy of her relatives.
María Celeste
Cinematography
After a storm, the captain of a ship lets it float aimlessly until he reaches an island paradise.
Madame Sans-Gêne
Director of Photography
In Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.
La importancia de ser ladrón
Cinematography
A modest employee of exemplary behavior is mistakenly accused of committing a major fraud.
Hay que casar a Paulina
Director of Photography
A rich and arrogant girl falls into poverty, while a noble and hardworking boy, who at first was despised, receives love.
Los ojos más lindos del mundo
Director of Photography
Luisito
Cinematography
To prevent her lover from marrying another woman out of interest, a young woman will pretend to be a man.
Su hermana menor
Director of Photography
The older of two sisters in love with the same man must sacrifice herself.
Son cartas de amor
Director
Cándida, la mujer del año
Director of Photography
After being decorated for a meritorious act, Cándida finds herself involved in the activities of some scammers who try to use her fame.
Claro de luna
Cinematography
Two twins fall in love with the same man and he thinks he only loves one woman.
Incertidumbre
Cinematography
A man from Europe knows a secret with which he tries to blackmail the father of a young woman.
An Angel Came Down from Heaven
Cinematography
A young couple pretends to have had a baby in order to get the girl's father's permission to get married.
Elvira Fernández, vendedora de tienda
Cinematography
Rich girl with progressive ideas goes undercover as a sales clerk at her father's department store.
La mentirosa
Cinematography
Dizzy secretary with a knack for embroidering the truth is identified as the heiress of a big mystery estate.
Cada hogar, un mundo
Director of Photography
The Third Kiss
Cinematography
A single man must pretend to be the father of a teenage girl and will end up marrying her mother.
I Knew That Woman
Director of Photography
The misadventures of a singer accused of murder are remembered by different people.
Napoleón
Cinematography
Upon learning that he has two months to live, a man distributes his fortune among his pensioners, over time he is still alive and has been left without a penny.
Soñar no cuesta nada
Director of Photography
Two girls without blood relationship but physically the same. One is shy and educated, the daughter of a good class marriage and the other is a very clever orphan but with terrible manners who lives in a kind of shelter.
Una vez en la vida
Director of Photography
A woman helps a man escape from the police and ends up falling in love with him.
Al toque de clarín
Cinematography
A retired army captain runs a farm using military methods.
Orquesta de señoritas
Director of Photography
A young woman, member of an orchestra of young ladies, is mistaken for the eccentric conductor and causes a series of problems.
Story of a Single Night
Director of Photography
A man returns to town after a long time and meets his ex-girlfriend, who is married to a husband in desperate economic situation.
La canción de los barrios
Cinematography
A young man starts working as a laborer in his father's shipyards and discovers a series of injustices.
Flecha de Oro
Cinematography
Hay que educar a Niní
Director of Photography
A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.
Fragata Sarmiento
Cinematography
It narrates the history of the Argentine ship that served for many generations like school for the formation of sailors.
La casa del recuerdo
Director of Photography
An old woman remembers when her daughter fell in love with a young neighbor, and she and her husband did everything to break that relationship.
Confesión
Cinematography
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.
...Y mañana serán hombres
Director of Photography
A man who is a director of a reformatory is slowly gaining everyone's trust.
Una mujer de la calle
Cinematography
This is the story of a woman who returns to her neighborhood after a long absence and leaving behind dubious company. Her arrival causes misfortunes and revives dark forgotten feelings.
El loco serenata
Director of Photography
La vida de Carlos Gardel
Director of Photography
The life, hardships, love affairs, triumphs and failures of the world-renowned tango singer Carlos Gardel.
Alas de mi Patria
Cinematography
Semi-documentary film in which a fictional plot is narrated linked to events that really occurred in the history of Argentine aviation between 1908 and 1938.
El diablo con faldas
Cinematography
A revue theater company alters the mayor's life when it arrives in his town.
Melodías porteñas
Director of Photography
La casa de Quirós
Director of Photography
¡Segundos afuera!
Director
Melgarejo
Cinematography
An adultery-induced woman is helped by her driver who discovers the villains.
Barranca abajo
Cinematography
It narrates the misfortunes that a man who has worked in the field all his life goes through.
Picaflor
Cinematography
An habitant of the Paraná Delta is tempted to engage in smuggling but abandons it for the love of a teacher.
¡Tango!
Cinematography
¡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.
Calles de Buenos Aires
Director of Photography
A girl from the suburbs is seduced by worldly life while another accepts her condition and conquers the love of a singer.
La verdadera victoria
Cinematography
The romance between a Spanish correspondent and an Argentine daughter of Poles during the Nazi invasion of Poland.