Luis Manuel de la Cuesta

Movies

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.
The Patagonic Teacher
After filming the hippie professor Luis Sandrini filmed this sequel to the above, following the sanctions imposed on it by Professor Horacio Montesano, sending him to Patagonia to a secondary school. Among the supporting cast is the famous singer Piero (he even play many of their good songs).
The Knight of the Sword
The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.
Don Segundo Sombra
The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the fields, alongside his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a lonely gaucho whom he admires and from whom he will learn to be a gaucho, following him in all his adventures. Don Segundo will be Fabio's role model.