Jorge Villalba

Jorge Villalba

Death : 2001-09-05

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Jorge Villalba

Movies

Las travesuras de Cepillo
The encounter of a puppeteer with an orphan child and the subsequent relationship.
La fiesta de todos
Documentary about Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, held in that country and in which important personalities in world football and culture involved.
Cuatro pícaros bomberos
Roseto
Four friends, who are volunteer firefighters, get into a series of problems when they discover a fraud.
La aventura explosiva
Mercurio
Super agents must protect a scientist inventor of a new type of synthetic fuel that works if a certain speed is not exceeded.
Los orilleros
The life, customs and death of an authoritarian man.
Difunta Correa
The Dead Man
Benjamin Ortalora is a young man who leaves Buenos Aires after murdering a rival. He goes to Montevideo where his cool boldness draws the attention of gang leader Azevedo Bandeira. When the old bandit becomes ill, Ortalora makes a determined play to take his place.
Rebellion in Patagonia
Florentino Cuello the Gaucho
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.
Juan Moreira
Julián Andrade
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.
La ñata contra el vidrio
Several short films from the first class of graduates of the National School of Experimentation and Film Production (ENERC), from 1965. 55 years telling stories.
¿De quiénes son las mujeres?
Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá
Biopic of Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905), son of a Mapuche cacique and a white woman, and the first Indian of South America to be beatified. The film starts out as a war movie, showing his father Manuel battling the Spanish and taking a white woman as his captive bride. But little of interest happens after Ceferino is born. His beatification relies partly on his "miraculous" survival after falling in a stream as a baby, but the film does not present this with any great drama, and plods through the rest of the boy's life with similar tepor. Ceferino does well in school, attracts the interest of a priest, attends a Catholic school in Buenos Aires, and studies for the priesthood in Italy, where he dies of tuberculosis after a few unconvincing coughs.
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.
Un gaucho con plata
A lucky provincial in business arrives in Buenos Aires and is scammed. A lawyer who is also provincial will help you get your money back.
Un lugar al sol
The love story in Buenos Aires of a young provincial couple.
Operación
Elías Vega, "El Chino"
The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná.
Hijo de hombre
Story set at the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay.
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.
Virgin field
Pobres habrá siempre
Gregorio Olmos
"Pobres habrá siempre" is a rarity within Argentine cinema for many reasons. Its theme is the rebellion of a group of meatpacking workers around 1935 and the several reasons that justified it, but the film was shot at a time when workers and union struggles were very strange issues for local production.
The Kidnapper
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.