Movies by Luis Sandrini
¡Tango!
¡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 a...
Los Tres Berretines
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.
Vivir con alegría
Un elefante color ilusión
A boy travels from Chaco to Buenos Aires taking with him an elephant that saved from a circus.
¡Secuestro sensacional!
After a 14 years old girl runs away from home, her family believes she's been kidnapped and a young man with good intentions is accused.
El más infeliz del pueblo
A shy man marries the daughter of a local warlord, works as a municipal chief of staff, witnesses numerous injustices and rebels himself.
El diamante del maharajá
Toribio poses as a sultan enjoying the female company of the harem.
Los dos rivales