León Klimovsky

Known for DirectingBorn 1906-10-17Died 1996-04-08Buenos Aires, Argentina

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. León Klimovsky (16 October 1906–8 April 1996) was an Argentine film director. A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema. He pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed the first movie theater to show art movies. He also founded Argentina's first film club in 1929. After participating as scriptwriter and assistant director of 1944's Se abre el abismo he filmed his first movie, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Player. From this first phase, it can be also highlighted the adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo and Ernesto Sabato's The Tunnel. On the 1950s Klimovsky settled in Spain, where he becomes a "professional" director. He went into spaghetti westerns and so-called exploitation films, filming in Mexico, Italy and Egypt. Perhaps he is best remembered for his contribution to Spain's horror film genre, beginning with La noche de Walpurgis. León Klimovsky confessed to have always dreamt of doing great vanguard movies but ended on filming commercial ones, but without remorse, as doing cinema was a vocational mandate for him. On 1995 he won the "Honor Award" of the Spanish Film Director Association. He died in Madrid of a heart attack. He was brother to the Argentine mathematician and philosopher Gregorio Klimovsky. Description above from the Wikipedia article León Klimovsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Los hombres las prefieren viudas

La parda Flora

Se llamaba Carlos Gardel

Un tipo de sangre

La colina de los pequeños diablos

Todos eran culpables

Un bruto para Patricia

S.O.S., abuelita

Llegaron los franceses

Salto a la gloria

Tres millones... y el amor

Albergue de mujeres

Die Easy in Ghentar

Una chica para dos

School of Seductresses

El tren expreso

La Guitarra de Gardel

Siete para un secreto

Una mujer sin importancia

El jugador

Escala en Tenerife

Ama Rosa

Amor casi... libre

I Saw Her First

El talón de Aquiles

El hombre que vino del odio

A Lady Called Andrew

Her and Fear

Horizontes de luz

Amo tu cama rica

Desert Warrior

Miedo

The Miller's Saucy Wife

El juramento de Lagardere

El pendiente

The Devil's Possessed

Rodríguez supernumerario

The Mysterious Uncle Silas

Se abre el abismo

Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor

The Tunnel

The Shack

The Marihuana Story

The Dracula Saga

La casa de las Chivas

Dos mejor que uno

La paz empieza nunca

Suburbio