Germán Gelpi

Birth : 1909-08-28, Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Death : 1982-11-26

Movies

La Raulito
Production Design
The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires. The film shows the teenage Raulito wandering between a reformatory for juvenile offenders, prison and psychiatric hospital. Raulito manages to escape, and finds work at Constitución railway station in Barrio Constitución. Raulito meets up with another street child and they become close friends. They both eventually manage to escape to Mar del Plata.
Andrea
Production Design
An orphan girl with a mother who lives in the care of her grandfather in the south of the country and the conflict caused by the arrival of her father.
La Casa del Amor
Art Direction
A house in Buenos Aires where the oldest profession in the world is in practice.
Adiós Alejandra
Production Design
The Unforgettable Gang
Production Design
The son of a businessman neglected by his father and orphaned by a mother, goes to a group of friends. A typical gang of humble neighborhood boys, led by Chirola. The history of this gang is ruled by two magical characters, El Hada de la Esperanza represented by Liliana Rodríguez Morlino and El Pombero, a typical Formosan character-legend, played by Jaime Cohen. Through these boys the life of the social classes of the time is reflected, the innocence of the boys apart from those values ​​and what children are capable of when they decide to transform things. During the story, the typical life of the province in which it was filmed, Formosa, and the daily life of the neighborhoods of the capital city that used to be a commercial port with Paraguay are highlighted.
Mi amigo Luis
Production Design
The story is based on the cadets of the Military College and their relationship with an older officer (1st Lieutenant) whom they see as a father.
Bajo el signo de la patria
Costume Design
Aspects of the life of General Manuel Belgrano since he took command of the Army of the North until, together with his men, he defeated the enemy in the battle of Salta in February 1813.
Bajo el signo de la patria
Set Decoration
Aspects of the life of General Manuel Belgrano since he took command of the Army of the North until, together with his men, he defeated the enemy in the battle of Salta in February 1813.
Pimienta y Pimentón
Production Design
Maternidad sin hombres
Art Direction
The story of several women who reach motherhood in difficult conditions.
El derecho a la felicidad
Production Design
The three daughters of a mature marriage and their problems with the original boyfriends.
Patapúfete
Art Direction
Pepe receives a notebook from his great-uncle containing the formula for making an atomic bomb. When some specialists dedicated to science discover it, they begin to send people to steal it.
Pimienta
Production Design
La gorda
Art Direction
An amateur singer leaves his town to go to Buenos Aires. In town he falls in love with a girl, but he won't be able to get rid of his fat girlfriend that he left behind in town.
Hotel alojamiento
Art Direction
Different stories that take place in a hotel for a temporary shelter for couples.
La industria del matrimonio
Production Design
There are 3 stories about the intermediaries of marriage (the ads of magazines, seers and agencies): Sentimental mail, about an energetic woman who wants to marry a dominable man; Elixir of love, on the subject of the title; and Romantic about a melodic singer.
El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres
Production Design
Bettina
Art Direction
The daughter of a bourgeois family is seduced, pregnant and dragged into a seedy environment.
La calesita
Production Design
When listening to a melody, an old man recalls moments of his childhood.
That Forward Center Dies at Dawn
Art Direction
Cacho Garibaldi is the soccer player of the moment, his goals lead to delirium fans. When an eccentric millionaire named Lupus buys his transfer, he expects to end up on a major team. Instead, he discovers the millionaire's goal in life is to collect the best -not art or stamps- but people.
La patota
Production Design
A philosophy teacher is raped by her night school students.
He nacido en Buenos Aires
Art Designer
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.
Estrellas de Buenos Aires
Production Design
The son of an entrepreneur is strongly attracted to a magazine theater showgirl.
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.
El millonario
Art Direction
The story of a man who is mistaken for the winner of the Christmas lottery prize and starts handing out borrowed money.
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.
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
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.
Vuelva el primero!
Production Design
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 fuerza ciega
Scenic Artist
A shipyard owner rapes the daughter of a blind worker, unaware that she is his own son's girlfriend.
La fuerza ciega
Production Design
A shipyard owner rapes the daughter of a blind worker, unaware that she is his own son's girlfriend.
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...
Big five and a girl
Production Design
La cuna vacía
Art Direction
The film begins with some sequences related to the youth of Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez, his arrival in Buenos Aires from his native Arrecifes, his law studies and a double frustration, as a writer and in his crush on a young woman who loved another man.
De padre desconocido
Production Design
A single mother is unjustly detained by the police. A lawyer, son of the judge in the case, falls in love with her.
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.
Por ellos... todo
Production Design
Aging father watches his adult children grow into independence and leave the roost.
La calle grita
Art Direction
When the employee of a famous economist seeks a raise in complicity with a street vendor, her work learns real-life facts by trying to prove that you can live with what you pay.
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.
La caraba
Set Designer
A mythomaniac woman rejects her humble status and falls in the trap of a wealthy lawyer.
Como tú lo soñaste
Production Design
The wife of a butcher imagines that her son is actually the fruit of her relationship with a famous singer, of whom she is secretly in love.
Nunca te diré adiós
Production Design
The passionate love of a married woman and a single man.
Donde mueren las palabras
Costume Design
An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.
Donde mueren las palabras
Art Direction
An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.
Donde mueren las palabras
Production Design
An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.
Savage Pampas
Set Decoration
In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for deserting soldiers.