Ralph Pappier

Рождение : 1914-01-14,

Смерть : 1998-09-17

Фильмы

A Woman...
After seven years in jail, a woman is released and has to re-enter society.
Esquiú, una luz en el sendero
Director
Allá donde el viento brama
Director
The action takes place in Comodo Rivadavia, and reenacts a 1907 mission lead by José Fuchs, who was supposed to find water but found oil instead.
Operación
Director
The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná.
Delito
Director
A police officer joins a gang of smugglers to try to unmask its members.
El festín de Satanás
Director
With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned even in unfavorable reviews. Later, it became a cursed film, impossible to see due to lack of prints. To date, it remains lost in great part.
La morocha
Director
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.
Native Pony
Director
A young horse breeder will show his grandfather how they can adapt to the times and prove his theory.
Ayer y hoy
Director
This short film is the most famous Peronist propaganda piece, most likely due to the expressionist visual power of Pappier's imagery. It is based on a poem by José María Fernández Unsaín in which a couple of workers (Fanny Navarro and Pedro Maratea) compares a past of explotation and misery with the new Argentina of Peronist social justice.
Escuela de campeones
Director
It is the reconstruction of the history of the Buenos Aires English High School and of the legendary Alumni club, made up of its students, who dominated Argentine football in the first decade of the 20th century and its president, Alejandro Watson Hutton, The first president of the Argentine Football Association, considered the father of Argentine football.
El último payador
Director
The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.
El último payador
Production Design
The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.
El último payador
Costume Design
The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.
La otra y yo
Art Direction
Las aventuras de Jack
Production Design
In the 19th century, the son of a frivolous countess faces the rigors of a tragic life.
La serpiente de cascabel
Production Design
Juan Carlos Thorry is a police inspector who must solve the mystery of the death of the warden of a boarding school for young women, for which he goes undercover as a music teacher. The main suspect is the mischievous schoolgirl María Duval. A series of entanglements leads the protagonists to becoming romantically involved and to finding the culprit.
Моя бедная любимая мать
Production Design
Каждый день, вместе с первыми лучами солнца, пересекала она одни и те же улицы предместья, как будто искала что-то там, в тумане. Собаки были единственными ее спутниками. Они шли за ней молчаливо, как будто понимали ее горе. Как будто знали, какие воспоминания толкают ее к этому печальному двору. Как будто знали, какие тени ждут ее в этих руинах, которые скрывают прошлое. Как будто понимали трагедию матери, потерявшей любимого сына.
Моя бедная любимая мать
Director
Каждый день, вместе с первыми лучами солнца, пересекала она одни и те же улицы предместья, как будто искала что-то там, в тумане. Собаки были единственными ее спутниками. Они шли за ней молчаливо, как будто понимали ее горе. Как будто знали, какие воспоминания толкают ее к этому печальному двору. Как будто знали, какие тени ждут ее в этих руинах, которые скрывают прошлое. Как будто понимали трагедию матери, потерявшей любимого сына.
Juan Moreira
Art Direction
El precio de una vida
Art Direction
The story of the tragic love of Count Loris Ipanov, a Russian nihilist, for the Princes Fedora Romanov.
La cumparsita
Production Design
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...
Madame Bovary
Special Effects
Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
Madame Bovary
Production Design
Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
Cumbres de hidalguía
Art Direction
An engineer leads an expedition that makes a very dangerous exploration towards the top of the mountains and is blamed when a young member who had displaced him in the conquest of a girl falls into a precipice.
Milagro de amor
Art Designer
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 .
Besos perdidos
Art Direction
A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.
La pródiga
Co-Director
The story of Julia, a beautiful woman of licentious life who one day reconsiders and decides to use her fortune for the good of her neighbor and of the needy.
La Cabalgata del Circo
Production Design
The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.
La Cabalgata del Circo
Director of Photography
The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.
Cuando la primavera se equivoca
Production Design
A young woman falls asleep at the gates of an old farm; in her dream she is transported to another century where she suffers for love.
Su mejor alumno
Production Design
Eclipse de sol
Production Design
A vaudeville singer secretly marries a wealthy landowner, who soon returns to his ranch, fearing the rejection of his snobbish family. To teach him a lesson, she shows up at his estancia pretending to be a maid.
Three Men of the River
Production Design
The film is based on an old Argentine legend about an Aztec girl who is raped and murdered by vandals and dumped in a river. A flower blossoms at the place in which she was killed and misfortune falls upon the culprits.
Cuando florezca el naranjo
Visual Effects
A new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival upsets the discipline of the beautiful students.
Cuando florezca el naranjo
Art Direction
A new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival upsets the discipline of the beautiful students.
Los hijos artificiales
Production Design
Война гаучо
Production Design
Действие фильма эпического характера происходит в провинции Сальта в 1817 году во время войны Аргентины за независимость, когда нерегулярные силы под командованием генерала Мартина Мигеля де Гуэмеса проводят партизанские действия против испанской армии.
Война гаучо
Special Effects
Действие фильма эпического характера происходит в провинции Сальта в 1817 году во время войны Аргентины за независимость, когда нерегулярные силы под командованием генерала Мартина Мигеля де Гуэмеса проводят партизанские действия против испанской армии.
Война гаучо
Set Decoration
Действие фильма эпического характера происходит в провинции Сальта в 1817 году во время войны Аргентины за независимость, когда нерегулярные силы под командованием генерала Мартина Мигеля де Гуэмеса проводят партизанские действия против испанской армии.
Cruza
Art Designer
The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.
El gran secreto
Art Direction
A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.
En el viejo Buenos Aires
Production Design
The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.
The Old Skinflint
Production Design
An Italian immigrant accumulates wealth for their children, all consider him a miserable, until one day one of her children gives a very big disappointment and dies of a heart attack. Their children begin to spend the fortune he had amassed his father.
En el último piso
Production Design
By trying to maintain her millionaire appearance, a young woman goes through a series of entanglements and finds a love that is also millionaire.
Melodías de América
Art Department Manager
Romance starts in Rio between a Mexican tenor being wooed for a Buenos Aires production, and an Argentine gal who has won a soap contest and who he thinks is rich.
The Gaucho Priest
Production Design
The life of José Gabriel Brochero, the Cordovan priest who dedicated his life to those most in need.
La quinta calumnia
Art Direction
A huge store in Buenos Aires is about to close due to restrictions on imports. The owner of the store returns from a vacation in France, and knowing the financial situation proceeds to throw a big gala party. He hires a man he had met abroad to pose as a fake earl, hoping to attract wealthy clients.
El mozo número 13
Art Direction
Corazón de turco
Production Design
The most aristocratic woman of the town is seduced by a Turkish man.
El hijo del barrio
Production Design
A young man who travels from the country to he city to study law has economic hardship until he receives help from a neighbor.
Atorrante (La venganza de la tierra)
Art Designer
A misogynistic teacher marries one of his students and then accidentally kills her.
Prisoners of the Land
Production Design
Argentina, 1915. Accompanied by a doctor and his beautiful daughter, Köhner, a ruthless foreman who rules a yerba mate plantation with an iron fist, arrives in the city of Posadas with the purpose of hiring workers.
...Y los sueños pasan
Production Design
Four young artists who live in a boarding house fall in love with the new lodger.
Hermanos
Art Direction
Frente a la vida
Art Direction
A man leaves his girlfriend, but she still sacrifices her happiness to procure his.
Nativa
Production Design
The love triangle of a journalist, a political leader and his wife.