Gerardo Vallejo

Martín Fierro, el ave solitaria (2006)

The gaucho Martín Fierro is forcibly taken to the frontier and compelled to fight in the war. After deserting, he returns home to find his wife and children gone. He kills a man and, now a deserter and murderer, flees into the desert, where he encounters ...

Con el alma (1995)

A story with autobiographical overtones that follows Miguel, a film director obsessed with making his next film. The plot begins in his childhood and, through him, we see the political ups and downs of Argentina, the suffering of the poor working class in ...

El rigor del destino (1985)

A boy from Tucumán is reunited with his grandfather after seven years of exile and learns about his father, a lawyer for workers. ...

Sin alma ni tiempo (1981)

The Children of Fierro (1978)

Peronist view of its history between the fall in 1955 and the electoral triumph of 1973 using a metaphor of the poem Martin Fierro. ...

Reflexiones de un salvaje (1978)

Argentine filmmaker Gerardo Vallejo, exiled in Spain, visits the Salamanca village of Cespedosa de Tormes, where his grandfather was born, and reconstructs the memories of his time with the locals. ...

Viejo Reales' Long Journey to Death (1971)

Documentary with staged events about a poor rural family in Argentina. ...

Cineinforme n.1 de la CGT de los Argentinos (1969)

Soup Kitchens (1968)

Shot in the impoverished northern province of Tuncamán in Argentina, this brief cine-tract shows the children and elderly people who are served by a community soup kitchen that exists independently of state support. The film's sequence of images, many sho ...

Las cosas ciertas (1965)

The journey of two brothers, "golondrinas" farmworkers from Tucumán to Río Negro, Argentina, who are forced to move from one place to another to find work. ...

Reflexiones de un salvaje (1978)

Argentine filmmaker Gerardo Vallejo, exiled in Spain, visits the Salamanca village of Cespedosa de Tormes, where his grandfather was born, and reconstructs the memories of his time with the locals. ...