Gardel: el hombre y el mito

Jan 2, 2005

1h 20m

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Overview

Through important testimonies, the director Miguel Rodríguez Arias intends to reveal facts that intertwine the life of the singer with that of his people. His desires, his virtues, his defects and his defeats. It is the story of a captivating voice, the reflection of a soul that transcends borders and languages with its art.

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Norma Aleandro

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Adriana Varela

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Susana Rinaldi

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Amelita Baltar

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Julia Zenko

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Rodolfo Mederos

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Horacio Salas

Material de archivo

Carlos Gardel

For thirty years, Carlos Escayola was the main politician of the small town of Tacuarembó, Uruguay. This farmer was known both for his political and cultural achievements (including the construction of a theater), and for the reputation of seducer, which earned him one of the greatest family polemics in the history of the region.

9.0

Carlos Gardel, Historia de un Ídolo

Apr 16, 1964

Newsreels, songs and films by Gardel, real scenes with events and historical figures from Argentina and the world, images of the accident that took his life in Medellín and the funeral in Buenos Aires.

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Recordando al Zorzal

Jan 1, 1965

The life, work and tragic disappearance of Carlos Gardel, the Creole thrush.

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As a gust of wind

Jan 7, 2023

In a decadent flea market there are rumors of a legend that inhabits the place. However, he is confined to his post until Carlos Gardel appears to him and gives him a mission in order to restore the shine of the Market.

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Gardeliana

Oct 1, 2020

A group of Carlos Gardel fans gathers every year at the Chacarita Cemetery to commemorate the anniversary of his death. Gardeliana portrays the ritual of a national hero, a day of saddened faces that coexist between the marvelous and the ghostly.

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El morocho del Abasto (La vida de Carlos Gardel)

Mar 22, 1950

The life of the famous tango singer Carlos Gardel, his emergence, his mother, his loves, his friends etc.

8.5

El último payador

Feb 9, 1950

The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.

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Espérame

Feb 27, 1933

A singer is in love with a young woman who is being extorted by a rich rancher.

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Se llamaba Carlos Gardel

Apr 7, 1949

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Like a Sign

Nov 22, 2014

Inspired by the affair between Carlos Gardel and Ivonne Printemps, this story tells the quest of that unfinished love in today's Buenos Aires.

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The Eastern Song Thrush

Apr 3, 2025

Joel, a young man of Chinese origin, competes in a singing contest in his neighborhood.

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La Guitarra de Gardel

Dec 22, 1949

A young man is dedicated to singing, but only for his friends, and his godfather wants him to do it professionally.

8.5

Así cantaba Carlos Gardel

Jan 1, 1935

A film that brings together ten of the fifteen shorts that Carlos Gardel filmed in 1930 under the direction of Eduardo Morera, in the film studios of the pioneer Federico Valle.

10.0

Una Vida es el Tango

Sep 2, 2023

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Bar de Mala Muerte

Oct 1, 1993

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2.7

The Day Maradona Met Gardel

Oct 17, 1996

Two guys as different as a watchmaker and a television editor have to free Carlos Gardel's soul from a strange pact with the devil, who has it trapped. To break the spell, these fans of El Morocho del Abasto, and improvised exorcists, need to find a mythical figure of such popular force as Gardel: the great Diego Maradona.

5.0

La vida de Carlos Gardel

May 24, 1939

The life, hardships, love affairs, triumphs and failures of the world-renowned tango singer Carlos Gardel.

6.5

A Morte de Carlos Gardel

Sep 21, 2011

Nuno is the son of divorced parents. He lives a nomadic existence with his father: he lost all his friends and never stays long enough anywhere to make new friends. Now Nuno has become a drug addict, he’s in hospital, in a coma struggling between life and death. His father and his father’s sister remain by his bedside. The three separately evoke requests from the past and other characters they meet also complement their current life experiences and memories. Based on the novel by António Lobo Antunes.

6.0

Añoranzas

Nov 7, 1930

Carlos Gardel and guitars performing "Añoranzas", vals written and composed by José María Aguilar.