Orestes Caviglia

Paula Cautiva

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.

La Pampa Gringa

“My life was the same as that of thousands of gringos: I plowed and sowed the land, and went to the bar on Sunday.” Such is the refrain throughout LA PAMPA GRINGA, which endeavors to relate the sense of community built by the European settlers who in 1865 first colonized the town of Esperanza, located in Birri’s native province of Santa Fe. Largely consisting of juxtaposed daguerreotypes from the period and newspaper printings, LA PAMPA GRINGA exhibits Birri’s ability to weave narratives out of historical documentation in deft, admirable form.

The Boss

The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.

El cielo en las manos

Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.

Nace la libertad

In 1812, the Argentine people and the army of the north resist the royalist advances.

De padre desconocido

A single mother is unjustly detained by the police. A lawyer, son of the judge in the case, falls in love with her.

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.

Pelota de trapo

This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and the love and support of the grown ups.

Nunca te diré adiós

The passionate love of a married woman and a single man.

Albergue de mujeres

Different stories that take place in a women's accommodation.

Rosa de América

The life of Saint Rosa de Lima.

La cabalgata del circo

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.

Su mejor alumno

The film tells the story of the natural son of a former president of Argentina and father of public education in the country, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, named Domingo, according to the first autobiographical accounts.

Casa de muñecas

The conflict of a woman with her husband when she starts defending her individuality.

Malambo

Based on a quechua legend, Malambo tells the story of a woman who lost her husband and son because of the greedy patrón of an hacienda. She swore that she would never remove the cloth over her eyes until her dead were avenged by the deaths of the patrón and his daughter. Nature seems to be on her side, since a drought has afflicted the land. Her other son, Malambo, accepts the duty of revenge. Malambo is no normal human: he is the runa-uturungo, or Hombre Tigre, of Quechua lore, and he cannot be wounded by bullets. He leads the obreros to rise in revolt and defeats the patrón. However, instead of killing the patrón's daughter--the blind Urpila --he falls in love with her, thereby breaking his mother's heart.

En el viejo Buenos Aires

The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.

La maestrita de los obreros

The relationship of the young night school teacher with her students.

Una vez en la vida

A woman helps a man escape from the police and ends up falling in love with him.

Appointment at the Border

Two middle-aged brothers fall in love with a tango singer they have met in a gambling hall, after she is stranded in their border mining town, causing them to turn against each other.

Huella

In 1840, a caravan of carts headed from Buenos Aires to Córdoba carrying merchandise, ammunition and prisoners, against the background of the struggles between the Unitarians and the Federalists.

North Wind

In an indigenous village a murder occurs, and young man is sentenced to death for it. However his father, the real culprit, takes the responsibility.

El pobre Pérez

Juan Pérez is a waiter in a luxurious place where the bachelor party of a man who is going to get married for convenience is done. When a dancer and singer with whom he was entangled, chases him, he uses Perez to get rid of her.

Melgarejo

An adultery-induced woman is helped by her driver who discovers the villains.

Cadetes de San Martín

A rural businessman is robbed by a corrupt partner and his cadet son and good student aspires to run the business.

Tararira (la bohemia de hoy)

A musical film with a performance by the group that was very fashionable at the time, El Cuarteto Aguilar. It was produced in 1936 but was never released.