León Klimovsky
Born
17 October 1906 (119)
Place of Birth
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Also known as
Henry Mankiewicz, León Klimovsky Dulfán
Biography
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...
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.
Filmography (40)
Amo tu cama rica
1992
El robobo de la jojoya
1991
The Brother from Space
1988
The Sea Serpent
1985
Dos mejor que uno
1984
The Most Beautiful Night
1984
Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
1982
Maravillas
1981
The Shack
1979
El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
1979
Trauma
1978
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
1977
Three Days in November
1977
The Kidnapping
1976
The People Who Own the Dark
1976
Amor casi... libre
1976
Death of a Hoodlum
1975
The Night of the Walking Dead
1975
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
1975
The Devil's Possessed
1974
Mean Mother
1974
I Saw Her First
1974
I Hate My Body
1974
The Vampires' Night Orgy
1973
Vengeance of the Zombies
1973
The Dracula Saga
1973
Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf
1972
La casa de las Chivas
1972
El hombre que vino del odio
1972
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Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest
1971
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
1971
Reverend's Colt
1970
Los hombres las prefieren viudas
1970
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Challenge of McKenna
1970
Quel maledetto ponte sull'Elba
1969
Quinto: Fighting Proud
1969
A Bullet for Rommel
1969
Seven Into Hell
1968
Death Knows No Time
1968
Rattler Kid
1967