Mario Soffici

Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic

Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and her money manager, decides to sell the house and return to Buenos Aires; but the three men do not agree with her decision.

Un elefante color ilusión

A boy travels from Chaco to Buenos Aires taking with him an elephant that saved from a circus.

Maternidad sin hombres

The story of several women who reach motherhood in difficult conditions.

Propiedad

Mario Soffici's last film. The story is about a beautiful young woman who is criticized by the town's old gossip women and is defended by a generous priest. She has an amorous relationship with a young orphan.

Esta tierra es mía

The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.

Los acusados

The murder of a man is investigated by a judge but the documentation that the dead man possessed makes the investigation hampered by politicians.

Isla brava

A young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended themselves against invading outlaws.

Rosaura at 10 O'Clock

Out of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues his fellow boarding house tenants, so they involve themselves into his relationship until one day the mysterious Rosaura appears.

Oro bajo

The life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.

El curandero

A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.

Gray neighborhood

The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the less qualified workers or those who have recently arrived from the rural areas live in the industrial cordons.

Una ventana a la vida

Passion for a woman leads a mature physician to his destruction

The Strange Case of the Man and the Beast

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Tierra del Fuego

Several individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous people perpetrated by the landowners in the area.

Cómo se hace una película argentina

Institutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film Festival in Mar del Plata. The film shows the technical process by which an Argentine film is produced and emphasizes the professionalism and power of the national film industry. In this way, the story explains in a pedagogical way what is a script, a frame, a camera, a set sketch and a projected background, among others, and how a scene and the soundtrack of a film are recorded.

El linyera

A homeless man returns to the countryside after traveling the world for years.

Calles de Buenos Aires

A girl from the suburbs is seduced by worldly life while another accepts her condition and conquers the love of a singer.

Buenos Aires Dolls

A girl who sometimes mistreats her father, leaves her home and leaves her boyfriend, seduced by an adventurer who starts her as a tango singer. The father is jailed after shooting the seducer and she tries to commit suicide but her old boyfriend saves her, starting a more successful way.