Fernando Ayala

Fernando Ayala

Birth : 1920-07-02, Gualeguay. Entre Ríos, Argentina

Death : 1997-09-11

History

Fernando Ayala (2 July 1920 – 11 September 1997) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer of the classic era. He is widely considered one of the most important Argentine film directors and producers in the history of the cinema of Argentina. Demicheli initially began as a trainee assistant director in 1942, in El Viaje, and within two years he had become an assistant director. By 1949 he had obtained his first job as director, and from 1958 he also served as producer for the films he directed and some others. Between 1950 and 1987 he was involved in the direction and production of well over 40 films, such as Ayer fue primavera in 1955 and Argentinísima and Argentinísima II in 1972 and 1973 respectively. In 1963 he was a member of the jury at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] His 1983 film The Deal was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Diploma. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Fernando Ayala
Fernando Ayala

Movies

El caso María Soledad
Producer
God Raises Them
Director
Angel lives with his mother and has homosexual inclinations. One day he meets Mirna, a prostitute who has a son. The three try to form a strange family.
El año del conejo
Director
Night of the Pencils
Producer
The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.
Sobredosis
Producer
An innocent teenager, the son of dysfunctional parents, descends into the abyss of drug addiction.
Sobredosis
Director
An innocent teenager, the son of dysfunctional parents, descends into the abyss of drug addiction.
Pasajeros de una pesadilla
Director
A family consisting of parents, two sons and a teenage daughter falls apart morally.
Funny Dirty Little War
Producer
A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message.
The Arrangement
Director
Luis is a righteous man who begins a struggle and a moral debate with his family, neighbors and close friends when a corrupt municipal official offers a very convenient "arrangement".
Sweet Money
Director
A man meets a former military service buddy who offers him a good deal. Money starts pouring in, but things change from one day to the next.
Open Day and Night
Writer
A motel that is open all day specializes in beautiful women, and a couple of men decide to visit their rooms.
Open Day and Night
Director
A motel that is open all day specializes in beautiful women, and a couple of men decide to visit their rooms.
Las vacaciones del amor
Producer
A group of high school students make their end-of-year trip to Bariloche. The excursion is complicated when it is discovered that the travel agency that takes them has scammed them
The Fridays of Eternity
Producer
A prostitute tries to communicate with one of her lovers who died in a duel, but who appears to him is his other lover, greater than the previous one, died in the same duel.
La discoteca del amor
Producer
Music execs find out their songs are being pirated, so a detective and his assistant are hired to catch the culprits.
Days of Delusion
Director
A woman and her daughter live in the unreality of a fantasy life, but soon this magic is interrupted by the disappearance of the mother.
From the Abyss
Writer
At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, a single mother tells the story of how alcoholism destroyed her personal and professional life.
From the Abyss
Producer
At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, a single mother tells the story of how alcoholism destroyed her personal and professional life.
From the Abyss
Director
At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, a single mother tells the story of how alcoholism destroyed her personal and professional life.
The Beach of Love
Producer
To forget his girlfriend a young man is taken to a beach by his brother and a friend.
Grandma
Juez de paz (cameo)
The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.
Grandma
Producer
The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.
Los éxitos del amor
Producer
Leonor Capulletti and Quique Monteschi, fanatics of the same club, love each other in a passionate as well as conflictive courtship, because their respective families are allied in opposing and irreconcilable factions.
The Doctors
Writer
There is everything in this hospital, a good doctor, one who only wants money, one with sexual perversions and the director who hides everything.
The Doctors
Director
There is everything in this hospital, a good doctor, one who only wants money, one with sexual perversions and the director who hides everything.
El canto cuenta su historia
Producer
El canto cuenta su historia
Director
The Dead Man
Screenplay
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.
The Dead Man
Producer
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.
Triangle of Four
Producer
In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman.
Triangle of Four
Director
In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman.
Rebellion in Patagonia
Screenplay
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.
Rebellion in Patagonia
Producer
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.
Argentinísima II
Writer
Argentinísima II
Producer
Argentinísima II
Director
The Bomb-thrower Teacher
Producer
The students of a school create a big mess for their favorite teacher to return to school.
The Bomb-thrower Teacher
Director
The students of a school create a big mess for their favorite teacher to return to school.
Argentinísima
Writer
Consists of musical performances, mostly Argentine folklore, many of which are accompanied by dancing. Several sequences were filmed in scenic locations throughout the country.
La gran ruta
Producer
A group of boys decides to rob a hotel accommodation for seeking advice which an old offender. In parallel, we see different couples as they arrive at the same hotel and that there be at the time of the assault.
La gran ruta
Director
A group of boys decides to rob a hotel accommodation for seeking advice which an old offender. In parallel, we see different couples as they arrive at the same hotel and that there be at the time of the assault.
Argentinian Until Death
Writer
Story that takes place during the so-called War of Paraguay or War of the Triple Alliance.
Argentinian Until Death
Producer
Story that takes place during the so-called War of Paraguay or War of the Triple Alliance.
Argentinian Until Death
Director
Story that takes place during the so-called War of Paraguay or War of the Triple Alliance.
Los neuróticos
Producer
Dr. Sigmund is a psychoanalyst whose only goal in his group therapies is to conquer the women who attend there.
The Patagonic Teacher
Producer
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 Patagonic Teacher
Director
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 Money
Producer
Stories whose common denominator is the lack of money: a young man who wants to capture a ticket, a boy-scout who dreams of singing the lottery jackpot, a frustrated self-robbery and a playboy who marries the daughter of a butcher.
The Money
Director
Stories whose common denominator is the lack of money: a young man who wants to capture a ticket, a boy-scout who dreams of singing the lottery jackpot, a frustrated self-robbery and a playboy who marries the daughter of a butcher.
The Hippie Teacher
Producer
Luis Sandrini plays a college professor who, because of his freethinking attitudes and concerns for moral questions over matters of business, has more in common with his students than his colleagues.
The Hippie Teacher
Director
Luis Sandrini plays a college professor who, because of his freethinking attitudes and concerns for moral questions over matters of business, has more in common with his students than his colleagues.
The Slowness
Writer
A typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work because it has a "lazy". His family, friends and colleagues are trying to dissuade him unsuccessfully at the beginning. But as time passed his situation complicated emotional and economically. These circumstances thwart his rebelliousness.
The Slowness
Director
A typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work because it has a "lazy". His family, friends and colleagues are trying to dissuade him unsuccessfully at the beginning. But as time passed his situation complicated emotional and economically. These circumstances thwart his rebelliousness.
Psexoanálisis
Producer
A profiteer pretends to be a psychoanalyst to conquer women with sexual trauma.
En mi casa mando yo
Producer
Tormented by the messy and frivolous life of his family, a father is forced to move away from home.
En mi casa mando yo
Director
Tormented by the messy and frivolous life of his family, a father is forced to move away from home.
Cuando los hombres hablan de mujeres
Script
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.
Cuando los hombres hablan de mujeres
Director
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
Producer
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.
Las locas del conventillo
Director
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.
Hotel alojamiento
Producer
Different stories that take place in a hotel for a temporary shelter for couples.
Hotel alojamiento
Director
Different stories that take place in a hotel for a temporary shelter for couples.
La industria del matrimonio
Director
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.
Viaje de una noche de verano
Director
A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
Con gusto a rabia
Writer
A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital.
Con gusto a rabia
Director
A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital.
Primero yo
Director
A charming racecar driver is visited by his 20-year-old son who is nothing like his father. Solemn and introverted, the boy is shown the ways of sensual pleasure by his father's mistress, but he falls in love with another young woman. Intending to marry the girl, the young man takes the relationship very seriously. His father, however, believes the boy should have a more carefree lifestyle and decides to intervene by seducing his own son's fiance. This action proves to be a tremendous mistake.
Paula cautiva
Writer
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.
Paula cautiva
Director
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
Producer
"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
Producer
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
Writer
The attitudes of different people to the fact of going to the movies.
Saturday Night, Cinema
Producer
The attitudes of different people to the fact of going to the movies.
Saturday Night, Cinema
Director
The attitudes of different people to the fact of going to the movies.
The Candidate
Writer
An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.
The Candidate
Director
An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.
Luz, cámara, acción
The Boss
Writer
The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.
The Boss
Producer
The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.
The Boss
Director
The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.
A Difficult Widow
Director
In colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite.
The Bitter Stems
Director
Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school.
Yesterday Was Spring
Director
A man suspects that his late wife had an extramarital relationship, so he decides to face the alleged lover.
Dock Sud
Assistant Director
La voz de mi ciudad
Assistant Director
La melodía perdida
Assistant Director
A conflict arises when a girl whose father has died does not accept that her mother remarry.
Emergency Ward
Assistant Director
The Argentine Sala de Guardia was released in English-speaking markets as Emergency Ward. South-of-the-Border matinee idol Carlos Thompson stars as an idealistic intern, doing his best to survive a very tough day on the job. When not scurrying from one patient to another, the intern tries to maintain equilibrium in his romance with a nurse (Elisa Galve). Comedy dovetails neatly into tragedy, which in turn segues smoothly into heart-tugging pathos. A box-office smash in Argentina, Sala de Guardia repeated its moneymaking performance all throughout Latin America.
Vuelo 300
Director
Esperanza
Assistant Director of Photography
The story of the first colony of immigrants to arrive in the province of Santa Fe, in Argentina.
Milagro de amor
Assistant Director
Margarita, the nun of a cloistered convent in charge of handling the lathe, this is a rotating mechanism provided with a small window through which she delivered and received things from the outside without direct visual contact, she is seduced by a Don Juan and induced to escape with him .
Deshojando margaritas
Assistant Director
Workaholic kindustrial tycoon is kidnapped and learns the value of a more leisurely lifestyle.
Allá en el setenta y tantos
Assistant Director
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.
Mi novia es un fantasma
Assistant Director
A humble maid is confused with a millionaire from a misunderstanding in the hotel that works and a journalist falls madly in love with her.
La guerra la gano yo
Assistant Director
A grocer gets rich speculating on the shortages generated by World War II until he suffers the consequences firsthand.
El viaje
Assistant Director
An architect goes on vacation and begins an affair with a young woman in a small town.