Alejandro Verbitzky

참여 작품

Mr. Dólar
Story
A Puerto Rican goes to New York to seek his fortune.
Los expatriados
Story
The film, which is an ode to Rafael Hernández's song "Lamento borincano", is a social commentary of the political and social policies of the 40's and 50's which led to the abandonment of what was seen by many as the "pure", "virtuous" life of the finca (farm) for the "corrupting" influence of urban centers like San Juan and New York City.
¡Viva quien sabe querer!
Adaptation
Ranchera singer and his sidekick travel to Argentina to mix it up with a playboy who bragged to them about the tour he'd book for them.
Tinieblas
Story
The Body Snatcher
Adaptation
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
The Body Snatcher
Writer
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
The Intruder
Screenplay
Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...
Three Dates with Destiny
Writer
Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain!
Screenplay
Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is awarded, could share the prize and go to Mexico, they to return to their homeland and her for bullfighter boyfriend whom has no news. The fate accompanies them, but, on reaching Mexico, her boyfriend rejects her. This way, she ends up acting in a cafe where reaps many successes.
Dios los cría
Story
Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
Mi adorada Clementina
Writer
A woman in an unhappy marriage trades places with her grandmother's ghost; Grandma whupps the girl's husband into line AND proves to her own husband that she was innocent of the infidelity that he was suspecting when she died, fifty years earlier.
Dishonor
Dialogue
The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
Dishonor
Original Story
The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
Don Fulgencio
Writer
The adventures of the man who had no childhood, smart for business, but a lover of innocent jokes.
Juan Mondiola
Writer
A woman and a winning ticket bring a neighborhood boy to the center.
La vendedora de fantasías
Writer
A store clerk, a detective, the robbery of a necklace and a murder.
Dance of Fire
Writer
The sometimes profound, sometimes slightly sordid tale of Elena, a famous concert pianist who, as a child, was sexually assaulted by a circus clown while the music of Manuel de Falla "Ritual Dance of Fire" could be heard from the circus tent. Since that time, Elena has gone into hysterics every time she hears that composition. Making matters worse, the lascivious clown is now her business manager.
Cita en las estrellas
Writer
A couple splits up and gets married to other people. After the man dies, the woman becomes delirious and thinks she's found him again in heaven.
La hostería del caballito blanco
Writer
La caraba
Writer
A mythomaniac woman rejects her humble status and falls in the trap of a wealthy lawyer.
María de los Ángeles
Screenplay
Set in 1825, the romance between a Creole woman and a Spaniard, during the Argentine War of Independence.
La senda oscura
Writer
An impostor pretends to be the mother of a blind man so he can manage his assets. But things are changing because of the arrival of the person who takes care of the blind.
La cumparsita
Writer
A young woman named Gloria, daughter of a Spanish immigrant, obtains great popularity in her neighborhood of Buenos Aires because of the way she interprets the tango. One day she enters a contest...
El retrato
Writer
A repressed woman, unable to give love, is possessed by the spirit of her lewd grandmother.
Un modelo de París
Writer
A series of confusions involve an unfaithful woman and a man on his wedding day.
El deseo
Writer
While her husband is abroad, Luisa receives a visit from an old love, her cousin, who becomes a "dangerous attraction". Her husband's stay abroad is prolonged and her loneliness overwhelms her and her attraction to her cousin increases.
The Armchair and the Grand Duchess
Writer
A Russian duke who's fallen on hard times tries to recover a stash of jewels hidden inside an armchair, but the chair gets sold at auction to a millionairess and he's forced to marry her in order to retrieve the treasure.