León Klimovsky

León Klimovsky

Born: October 17, 1906
Died: April 8, 1996
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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León Klimovsky (16 October 1906–8 April 1996) was an Argentine film director.

A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema. He pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed the first movie theater to show art movies. He also founded Argentina's first film club in 1929.

After participating as scriptwriter and assistant director of 1944's Se abre el abismo he filmed his first movie, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Player. From this first phase, it can be also highlighted the adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo and Ernesto Sabato's The Tunnel.

On the 1950s Klimovsky settled in Spain, where he becomes a "professional" director. He went into spaghetti westerns and so-called exploitation films, filming in Mexico, Italy and Egypt. Perhaps he is best remembered for his contribution to Spain's horror film genre, beginning with La noche de Walpurgis. León Klimovsky confessed to have always dreamt of doing great vanguard movies but ended on filming commercial ones, but without remorse, as doing cinema was a vocational mandate for him.

On 1995 he won the "Honor Award" of the Spanish Film Director Association. He died in Madrid of a heart attack. He was brother to the Argentine mathematician and philosopher Gregorio Klimovsky.

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Movies for León Klimovsky...

Amo tu cama rica
Title: Amo tu cama rica
Character: Tornatto
Released: January 31, 1992
Type: Movie
Pedro goes out searching for a girl, but the night doesn't seem to be good. While he is talking with a friend, he sees Sara breaking up with a boy. He goes after her, and they end up sleeping in his house. Time goes by and they continue together. But Sara has too many men around and Pablo can't stand that. Their relation is difficult, they love each other but, at the same time, they can not be together.
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El robobo de la jojoya
Title: El robobo de la jojoya
Released: December 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Two brothers plan to steal the precious jewel of Nefertiti's eye in a famous exhibition hall, but they are not the only ones who want it. There is a scuffle in which a policeman dies and one of the robbers falls on the dead man.
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The Brother from Space
Title: The Brother from Space
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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The Sea Serpent
Title: The Sea Serpent
Character: Dr. Moore
Released: April 26, 1985
Type: Movie
A serpent, created by radioactivity, threatens a Spanish coastal town.
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Dos mejor que uno
Title: Dos mejor que uno
Character: Librero
Released: October 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Rafa and Jeromo are a curious couple of friends. Their friendship began in childhood as well as his love for Silvia, which have been in love since childhood. Silvia Jeromo elected, and Rafa decided to disappear. Years later he returns and finds that the couple is experiencing a serious emotional crisis...
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The Most Beautiful Night
Title: The Most Beautiful Night
Released: September 24, 1984
Type: Movie
Federico, an executive of national television, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an actress who retired prematurely after marriage, is cheating him with another man. The symptoms are that Elena sighs, looks far into heaven and is aware of the exact time a comet passes. In other words, she expects her most beautiful night.
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Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
Title: Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
Released: September 7, 1982
Type: Movie
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Maravillas
Title: Maravillas
Character: Santos
Released: February 26, 1981
Type: Movie
A young Catholic girl takes viewers through a changing Spanish political and social landscape as she develops from her confirmation day to adulthood. Her first experience with the real Spain comes when her Jewish godfathers cannot come to her confirmation. One of the godfathers, using a ring, poses an early challenge to her innocence that puts her in danger. He later returns, indirectly introducing her to a new boyfriend. If he is one of the symbols for Jewish life under Franco, or for a Judeo-Christian interaction, that interaction is complex. The young woman encounters different lovers as she grows into adulthood, but at the same time she is burdened with financially supporting her father and his own rather decadent lifestyle. Again, this difference in generations could be understood as a difference between the "new" and "old" Spain; it is up to the viewers to interpret the story elements as they decide.
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El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
Title: El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
Character: Chochoffsky
Released: June 14, 1979
Type: Movie
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Amor casi... libre
Title: Amor casi... libre
Character: Representante de Foscafé (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1976
Type: Movie
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I Saw Her First
Title: I Saw Her First
Character: Faustino
Released: June 18, 1974
Type: Movie
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S.O.S., abuelita
Title: S.O.S., abuelita
Released: October 16, 1959
Type: Movie
Clemen is very sad. After three years of marriage, Raul, her husband, is moving away from it and, what is worse, is getting dangerously close to other women. Desperate, she cries under the portrait of his late grandmother. And the miracle occurs. Granny leaves the frame and proposes to take its place Clemen. Clemen remains painted on the wall, while his grandmother set about reconquering Raul.