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Fernando Ayala

Fernando Ayala

Fernando Ayala (2 July 1920 – 11 September 1997) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer of the classic era. He is widely considered one of the most important Argentine film directors and producers in the history of the cinema of Argentina.

Demicheli initially began as a trainee assistant director in 1942, in El Viaje, and within two years he had become an assistant director. By 1949 he had obtained his first job as director, and from 1958 he also served as producer for the films he directed and some others. Between 1950 and 1987 he was involved in the direction and production of well over 40 films, such as Ayer fue primavera in 1955 and Argentinísima and Argentinísima II in 1972 and 1973 respectively. In 1963 he was a member of the jury at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] His 1983 film The Deal was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Diploma.

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Movies Made By Fernando Ayala (65)

El caso María Soledad (1993)

The film is a fictional chronicle of a resonant police case that occurred in the city of Catamarca: the crime of the young María Soledad Morales, which had great public repercussion due to the links with the power of the culprits. ...

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God Raises Them (1991)

Angel lives with his mother and has homosexual inclinations. One day he meets Mirna, a prostitute who has a son. The three try to form a strange family. ...

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El año del conejo (1987)

Upon turning 55, Pepe, a bank manager, feels bored with his life. He abandons his family, quits his job, takes a woman younger than him as a lover, and becomes associated with a moneylender. ...

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Night of the Pencils (1986)

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings t ...

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Sobredosis (1986)

An innocent teenager, the son of dysfunctional parents, descends into the abyss of drug addiction. ...

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Pasajeros de una pesadilla (1984)

A family consisting of parents, two sons and a teenage daughter falls apart morally. ...

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Funny Dirty Little War (1983)

A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. Wha ...

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The Arrangement (1983)

Luis is a righteous man who begins a struggle and a moral debate with his family, neighbors and close friends when a corrupt municipal official offers a very convenient "arrangement". ...

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Sweet Money (1982)

A man meets a former military service buddy who offers him a good deal. Money starts pouring in, but things change from one day to the next. ...

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Open Day and Night (1981)

A motel that is open all day specializes in beautiful women, and a couple of men decide to visit their rooms. ...

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Las vacaciones del amor (1981)

A group of high school students make their end-of-year trip to Bariloche. ...

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The Fridays of Eternity (1981)

A prostitute tries to communicate with one of her lovers who died in a duel, but who appears to him is his other lover, greater than the previous one, died in the same duel. ...

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Discotheque of love (1980)

Music execs find out their songs are being pirated, so a detective and his assistant are hired to catch the culprits. ...

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Days of Delusion (1980)

A woman and her daughter live in the unreality of a fantasy life, but soon this magic is interrupted by the disappearance of the mother. ...

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From the Abyss (1980)

At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, a single mother tells the story of how alcoholism destroyed her personal and professional life. ...

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The Beach of Love (1980)

A young man is forcibly taken to a beach by his brother and a friend to make him forget his girlfriend. ...

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Grandma (1979)

The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother. ...

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Love's Successes (1979)

Leonor Capulletti and Quique Monteschi, fanatics of the same club, love each other in a passionate as well as conflictive courtship, because their respective families are allied in opposing and irreconcilable factions. ...

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The Doctors (1978)

There is everything in this hospital, a good doctor, one who only wants money, one with sexual perversions and the director who hides everything. ...

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El canto cuenta su historia (1976)

A parade of musical paintings that includes fragments of Argentine films and a Proartel television program that Channel 13 broadcast in 1965. ...

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The Dead Man (1975)

Benjamin Ortalora is a young man who leaves Buenos Aires after murdering a rival. He goes to Montevideo where his cool boldness draws the attention of gang leader Azevedo Bandeira. When the old bandit becomes ill, Ortalora makes a determined play to take h ...

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Triangle of Four (1975)

In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman. ...

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Rebellion in Patagonia (1974)

In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose ...

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Argentinísima II (1973)

Argentinísima II is a film filmed in Argentine colors directed by Fernando Ayala and Héctor Olivera according to their own script that premiered on June 21, 1973 and whose main actors were Ginamaría Hidalgo, Eduardo Falú, Jaime Dávalos and Raúl Barbo ...

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Hasta que se ponga el sol (1973)

Concert film documenting the foundational stage of the Argentine 'rock nacional' movement. It was filmed during the third edition of the historic B.A. Rock rock festival, which took place in 1972 at the Argentinos Juniors stadium. ...

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The Bomb-thrower Teacher (1972)

The students of a school create a big mess for their favorite teacher to return to school. ...

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Argentinísima (1972)

Consists of musical performances, mostly Argentine folklore, many of which are accompanied by dancing. Several sequences were filmed in scenic locations throughout the country. ...

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La gran ruta (1971)

A group of boys decides to rob a hotel accommodation for seeking advice which an old offender. In parallel, we see different couples as they arrive at the same hotel and that there be at the time of the assault. ...

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Argentinian Until Death (1971)

Story that takes place during the so-called War of Paraguay or War of the Triple Alliance. ...

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Los neuróticos (1971)

Dr. Sigmund is a psychoanalyst whose only goal in his group therapies is to conquer the women who attend there. ...

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The Patagonic Teacher (1970)

After filming the hippie professor Luis Sandrini filmed this sequel to the above, following the sanctions imposed on it by Professor Horacio Montesano, sending him to Patagonia to a secondary school. Among the supporting cast is the famous singer Piero (he ...

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The Money (1970)

Stories whose common denominator is the lack of money: a young man who wants to capture a ticket, a boy-scout who dreams of singing the lottery jackpot, a frustrated self-robbery and a playboy who marries the daughter of a butcher. ...

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The Hippie Teacher (1969)

Luis Sandrini plays a college professor who, because of his freethinking attitudes and concerns for moral questions over matters of business, has more in common with his students than his colleagues. ...

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The Slowness (1969)

A typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work because it has a "lazy". His family, friends and colleagues are trying to dissuade him unsuccessfully at the beginning. But as time passed his situation complicat ...

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Psexoanálisis (1968)

A profiteer pretends to be a psychoanalyst to conquer women with sexual trauma. ...

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En mi casa mando yo (1968)

Tormented by the messy and frivolous life of his family, a father is forced to move away from home. ...

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Cuando los hombres hablan de mujeres (1967)

Three stories told in a Turkish bathhouse: two braggarts are mocked by a starlet; two Boca Juniors fans and love-hate for two River Plate fan girls; a man, father of 8 daughters, seeks the boy despite his wife. ...

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Las locas del conventillo (1966)

The neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, is divided in two sectors: one is where decent people live under the tutelage of Magdalena, in the other, Manuel,ir responsible of a nightclub. Among decent people live Manolo, the milkman, awaiting the arrival ...

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Hotel alojamiento (1966)

Different stories that take place in a hotel for a temporary shelter for couples. ...

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La industria del matrimonio (1965)

There are 3 stories about the intermediaries of marriage (the ads of magazines, seers and agencies): Sentimental mail, about an energetic woman who wants to marry a dominable man; Elixir of love, on the subject of the title; and Romantic about a melodic si ...

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Viaje de una noche de verano (1965)

A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus. ...

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Con gusto a rabia (1965)

A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital. ...

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Paula Cautiva (1963)

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. ...

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Primero yo (1963)

A charming racecar driver is visited by his 20-year-old son who is nothing like his father. Solemn and introverted, the boy is shown the ways of sensual pleasure by his father's mistress, but he falls in love with another young woman. Intending to marry th ...

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Closed Door (1962)

Three recently-deceased persons are locked into a hotel suite together for all eternity. Adaptation of Huis clos, by Jean Paul Sartre. ...

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No Exit (1962)

The Valet enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano and Estelle Rigault, are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realising that they are in he ...

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Saturday Night, Cinema (1960)

The attitudes of different people to the fact of going to the movies. ...

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The Candidate (1959)

An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections. ...

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The Boss (1958)

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

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A Difficult Widow (1957)

In colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite. ...

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The Bitter Stems (1956)

Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school. ...

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Yesterday Was Spring (1955)

A man suspects that his late wife had an extramarital relationship, so he decides to face the alleged lover. ...

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Dock Sud (1953)

A trolley falls from a bridge to the Riachuelo, killing almost all its passengers. The families of the victims receive compensation, they improve their lifestyles and look down on the worker who didn't take the trolley that mortal day. ...

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La melodía perdida (1952)

A conflict arises when a girl whose father has died does not accept that her mother remarry. ...

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Emergency Ward (1952)

An idealistic intern is doing his best to survive a very tough day on the job. When not scurrying from one patient to another, he tries to maintain equilibrium in his romance with a nurse. Comedy dovetails neatly into tragedy, which in turn segues smoothly ...

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Vuelo 300 (1950)

Institutional short film about Aerolíneas Argentinas. ...

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Piantadino (1950)

An insurance broker and his misadventures for trying to finalize a policy. ...

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Esperanza (1949)

The story of the first colony of immigrants to arrive in the province of Santa Fe, in Argentina. ...

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Milagro de amor (1946)

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 Ju ...

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Deshojando margaritas (1946)

Workaholic kindustrial tycoon is kidnapped and learns the value of a more leisurely lifestyle. ...

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Allá en el setenta y tantos (1945)

The life of Élida Passo, pioneer of medicine of the Buenos Aires of the XIX century. By 1870, the first women tried to practice medicine in an area reserved for men; and through sacrifice and struggle, they begin the path towards a more egalitarian societ ...

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Mi novia es un fantasma (1944)

A humble maid is confused with a millionaire from a misunderstanding in the hotel that works and a journalist falls madly in love with her. ...

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La guerra la gano yo (1943)

A grocer gets rich speculating on the shortages generated by World War II until he suffers the consequences firsthand. ...

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El viaje (1942)

An architect goes on vacation and begins an affair with a young woman in a small town in Córdoba. ...

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Movies Starring Fernando Ayala (2)

Grandma (1979)

The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother. ...

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