Luis Arata

Luis Arata

Birth : 1895-08-21, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Death : 1967-06-21

History

Luis Arata was a classic Argentine stage, film and television actor.

Profile

Luis Arata

Movies

El festín de Satanás
With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned even in unfavorable reviews. Later, it became a cursed film, impossible to see due to lack of prints. To date, it remains lost in great part.
La morocha
Joaquín Soler
A prostitute persecuted by the police, receives the interested protection of a greedy merchant. He takes refuge in his house one night and meets his nephew, a sensitive boy who wants to be a musician.
Cinco gallinas y el cielo
Five random people accidentally get dosed with an experimental psych-drug that suppresses fear and risk-avoidance.
Gray neighborhood
Don García, el farmacéutico
The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the less qualified workers or those who have recently arrived from the rural areas live in the industrial cordons.
Los hijos del otro
A mother hires a psychologist to be the father of 3 children, and he performs his role excellently, providing affection.
Ceniza al viento
The story of different episodes that happen in each of the sections of a newspaper.
El tesoro de la isla Maciel
Lorenzo García
Giácomo
Giacomó
Giácomo is an Italian man in his forties who is single, dedicated to earning money in his business. He strikes up a relationship with a Spanish singer, whose brother encourages her to conquer him to take her money.
Busco un marido para mi mujer
Mateo
Cars and progress made an old carriage-driver jobless and so desperate that he becomes a gangster. When his own son starts a life of crime, he repents and gives himself to the authorities. When he lives prison, he will be happy to rejoin his family, as his son repented, too.
La muchacha del circo
Lo que le pasó a Reynoso
Serapio
A gaucho kills a romantic rival in a duel, forcing him to flee.
Outside the Law
Pedro Robles
A delinquent, the son of a police commissioner, leaves prison to seduce someone who should be like a sister to him: a girl raised and loved by his parents. To force her to give in to his obsession, he kidnaps her little daughter.
Los caballeros de cemento
Los Tres Berretines
Manuel Sequeira
The members of a Buenos Aires family have three hobbies — "berretines" in Buenos Aires slang — that keep them apart of their duties. Because of that, the family business is going down, and the only one who is concerned is the father, who hopes for his fourth son, an architect, to save the situation.
Resaca