Carlos Gardel, Historia de un Ídolo

Apr 16, 1964

1h 20m

★ 9.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Music

Documentary

Production Companies

Solly Schroder

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Cast

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Carlos Gardel

Él mismo

Tito Lusiardo

Julio Jorge Nelson

Liliana Lagos

Bettina Hudson

Anselmo Orani

Carlos Canessa

Pacheco Fernández

Juan Carlos Copes

María Nieves Rego

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Julio Argentino Roca

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Bartolomé Mitre

The members of a Buenos Aires family have three hobbies — "berretines" in Buenos Aires slang — that keep them apart of their duties. Because of that, the family business is going down, and the only one who is concerned is the father, who hopes for his fourth son, an architect, to save the situation.

4.5

Así es el tango

Feb 24, 1937

Two unfaithful husbands have to win their wives back while they take their revenge on them by going out with other people.

0.0

Gran Paraíso

Jul 8, 2024

No overview available.

0.0

¡Tango!

Apr 26, 1933

¡Tango! follows a formula established by Carlos Gardel with films such as Luces de Buenos Aires (The Lights of Buenos Aires, 1931) in which a melodramatic story is interspersed with tango songs. However, the film had less dialog and more music, making it more like a musical revue. This format would be copied by many subsequent films. The plot is derived from tango songs. Many of these songs tell of the seduction of an innocent slum girl by a rich man who promises her a glamorous life, but who abandons her when her looks fade. The stylized and sentimental plot of ¡Tango! revolves around a young man who is abandoned by his girlfriend for an older rich man and is heartbroken. The film follows his misfortunes.

6.5

The Tango Lesson

Nov 28, 1997

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.

0.0

El padre de Gardel

Jun 6, 2013

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.

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Tango

Aug 9, 1985

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies, art works, dance performances, historical footage, photographs of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20th century, and texts by Celedonio Flores and Enrique Santos Discépolo.

10.0

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.

7.3

Café de los maestros

Jun 26, 2008

Coffee Masters is a documentary by Miguel Kohan, produced by Lita Stantic, Gustavo Santaolalla and Walter Salles. It tells the story of great tango of the old guard who, summoned by a rock musician, proposing a record to demonstrate its validity. This adventure, full of memories, humor and poignant moments, culminating with a presentation of the Masters at the Teatro Colon.

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Se llamaba Carlos Gardel

Apr 7, 1949

No overview available.

0.0

Nelly Omar, cantora nacional

Aug 1, 2014

The life of the last female singer of the golden age of tango, who died at 102 years of age. Nelly Omar stood out as one of the consecrated interpreters of tango and national folklore.

5.0

The Sidewalks of Saturn

Apr 30, 1986

Hugo Santiago and writers Juan José Saer and Jorge Semprún move back and forth between Paris and the city of Aquilea in a shadowy fable about exile. The frontier between one city and the other begins to blur after Bandoneonist Rodolfo Mederos is visited by his sister, a member of a guerrilla organization.

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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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5.0

Radio Bar

Sep 10, 1936

No overview available.

0.0

Gardel: el hombre y el mito

Jan 2, 2005

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.

7.0

La vida es un tango

Feb 8, 1939

Romance - with its ruptures and reunions - between a girl and a boy who want to succeed with the tango.

5.3

Gran Casino

Jun 12, 1947

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.

4.5

La voz de mi ciudad

Jan 15, 1953

No overview available.

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7.5

Astor Piazzolla: The Next Tango

Jun 12, 2007

Piazzolla and his Quintet perform with the Cologne Rundfunk Orchestra conducted by Pinches Steinberg in this film by Jose-Montes Baquer. Piazzolla is also featured in conversation.

0.0

Gricel. Un amor en tiempo de tango

Nov 29, 2012

Musical documentary about the love story between tango lyricist José María Contursi and a village girl named Gricel. After a passionate and forbidden romance, Contursi and Gricel separate and propose to forget each other, but they discover that forgetting is impossible.