Mario Vanarelli

Mario Vanarelli

Birth : 1917-10-19, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Death : 2005-07-06

History

Mario Vanarelli was a set designer who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 21, 1917 and died in the same city on July 6, 2005 after an extensive professional career. He was also Rector and professor of scenography in Buenos Aires and at the University of La Plata. He received the Martín Fierro Award for best set designer in 1959 and the Konex Award in 1982.

Profile

Mario Vanarelli

Movies

Argentinísima
Art Designer
Consists of musical performances, mostly Argentine folklore, many of which are accompanied by dancing. Several sequences were filmed in scenic locations throughout the country.
Kuma-Ching
Production Design
A bellicose Eastern power organizes a complicated plan to obtain the services of Professor Diego de Alcántara, a Spanish atomic scientist and father of Lola, a famous singer.
Criminal Affair
Production Design
A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.
Cuando los hombres hablan de mujeres
Set Designer
Three stories told in a Turkish bathhouse: two braggarts are mocked by a starlet; two Boca Juniors fans and love-hate for two River Plate fan girls; a man, father of 8 daughters, seeks the boy despite his wife.
Las locas del conventillo
Production Design
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
Art Direction
A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
Good Night, Buenos Aires
Production Design
Various musical episodes make up this film-magazine in which Del Carril tried to merge his two great passions: cinema and tango.
La calesita
Production Design
When listening to a melody, an old man recalls moments of his childhood.
Paula cautiva
Production Design
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.
A puerta cerrada
Art Direction
"Hell is other people." Three recently-deceased persons are locked into a hotel suite together for all eternity. Adaptation of Huis clos, by Jean Paul Sartre.
No Exit
Art Direction
The Valet (Manuel Rosón) enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin (Morgan Sterne) in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano (Viveca Lindfors) and Estelle Rigault (Rita Gam), are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realising that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories. Adaptation of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Saturday Night, Cinema
Production Design
The attitudes of different people to the fact of going to the movies.
La patota
Production Design
A philosophy teacher is raped by her night school students.
Masterworks of Terror
Production Design
Three extraordinary tales written by Edgar Allan Poe, the Master of the Grotesque: a man who is dead but is not; a cask of liquor and a meditated revenge; a heart that refuses to stop beating.
The Candidate
Production Design
An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.
He nacido en Buenos Aires
Art Designer
The Boss
Production Design
The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.
El calavera
Art Direction
Aging-roue comedy: foxy grandpa's doctor tells him he needs to cut out the high-living and make a stable, tranquil home for himself, as befits his age and station... but he decides he'd rather do that by marrying his nephew off and piggybacking on the domestic tranquility created in that household.
La morocha
Production Design
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.
A Difficult Widow
Art Designer
In colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite.
Todo sea para bien
Art Designer
A widowed man who has lived adoring the memory of his wife, discovers 15 years later that she was his best friend's lover.
The Bitter Stems
Production Design
Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school.
Después del silencio
Art Direction
A doctor is persecuted after treating a tortured man at a police station.
Marta Ferrari
Art Direction
A successful actress tells a journalist the story of her love for a musician who left her once she was successful.
El satélite chiflado
Production Design
Catita is a lady
Production Design
Catita patterns are separated and, momentarily, decide to leave the house in charge of it, dismissing the rest of the household staff. Furthermore, Catita accidentally causes a fire, leaving many people homeless and living temporarily offered together in the mansion, she pretended to be the owner to the outsiders.
La pícara soñadora
Art Direction
A store clerk lives in the furniture section without anyone noticing.
Sangre y acero
Set Decoration
In a train repair shop, a passion involves a woman and, years later, her daughter.
Los peores del barrio
Art Direction
The members of a neighborhood club are evicted due to complaints from a neighbor.
Love Never Dies
Production Design
Three-episode film linked to each other by means of a medallion, where love is the engine that drives people to act the way they did.
Un novio para Laura
Production Design
A humble young woman receives a dowry from a rich uncle only if she marries, so she "rents" a boyfriend but she ends up falling in love with him.
Mercado de abasto
Production Design
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.
Requiebro
Art Direction
A rancher fleeing from marriage is conquered by a Spanish singer.
Yesterday Was Spring
Production Design
A man suspects that his late wife had an extramarital relationship, so he decides to face the alleged lover.
El grito sagrado
Art Direction
El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.
Un hombre cualquiera
Production Design
A man makes people believe their people who have achieved success and economic prosperity in the city, hiding his true failure. A young man arrives then the village, requesting help from their supposed influence to his career as a concert pianist. The Ringer will be seen in figures to conceal the truth.
Del otro lado del puente
Art Direction
Dock Sud
Production Design
Ellos nos hicieron así
Production Design
La voz de mi ciudad
Production Design
Way of a Gaucho
Costume Design
In 1875 Argentina, after killing a man, a gaucho is sentenced to harsh army duty but he deserts the army and becomes a bandit leader.
La patrulla chiflada
Art Direction
As stowaways, the "Big Five of Good Humor" arrive in Casablanca. There they will launch themselves in defense of four girls kidnapped by a man, about to be sold to the harem of an Arab sheikh.
The Beast Must Die
Set Designer
A writer whose son was killed in a hit-and-run goes in search of the driver to get revenge.
The Beast Must Die
Art Direction
A writer whose son was killed in a hit-and-run goes in search of the driver to get revenge.
Mi mujer está loca
Art Direction
Due to something very strange, a woman transforms from a housewife into a vedette.
Pasó en mi barrio
Production Design
An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.
Fantasmas asustados
Art Direction
A beautiful girl who lives in an old mansion that is said to be haunted will try with the help of five young people to unmask some scarers.
Vivir un instante
Production Design
A woman and a man are involved in trafficking.
El heroico Bonifacio
Art Direction
A gang of criminals uses a boastful store clerk posing as a hero.
El pendiente
Production Design
Under the threat of blackmail, a young woman visits an ex-lover, only to discover that he's been murdered and the blame rests upon her.
Romance en tres noches
Art Designer
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.
La doctora Castañuelas
Art Designer
Love will reveal the double life of a woman who is a scientist by day and a singer by night.
Late-Model Wife
Production Design
When a young woman who knows nothing about housework falls in love, her grandmother and nanny make her seem like the ideal housewife in front of her boyfriend.
Arrabalera
Production Design
Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...
La campana nueva
Art Designer
The struggle of two rural teachers to rebuild a school destroyed by a tornado.
Big five and a girl
Production Design
Esperanza
Costume Design
The story of the first colony of immigrants to arrive in the province of Santa Fe, in Argentina.
From Man to Man
Art Direction
A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.
Al marido hay que seguirlo
Art Direction
A doctor must pretend to be single and his wife follows him to the field causing a series of incidents.
El tambor de Tacuarí
Manuel Belgrano
After the May Revolution occurred, a young man abandoned his royalist uncle and became a drummer for the revolutionary army and his father's guide.
María de los Ángeles
Costume Design
Set in 1825, the romance between a Creole woman and a Spaniard, during the Argentine War of Independence.
Donde mueren las palabras
Production Design
An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.
Dos ángeles y un pecador
Art Direction
A guardian angel accompanies a man who had made a deal with death, which he regrets for a woman.
Allá en el setenta y tantos
Production Design
The life of Élida Passo, pioneer of medicine of the Buenos Aires of the XIX century. By 1870, the first women tried to practice medicine in an area reserved for men; and through sacrifice and struggle, they begin the path towards a more egalitarian society.