León Klimovsky
Directing
Born October 17, 1906 · Buenos 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.
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The Shack
1979
Trauma
1978
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
1977
Three Days in November
1977
The Kidnapping
1976
The People Who Own the Dark
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 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
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
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
Die Easy in Ghentar
1967
A Few Dollars for Django
1966
Una chica para dos
1966
Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote
1966
La colina de los pequeños diablos
1965
Escala en Tenerife
1964
Billy the Kid
1964
Her and Fear
1964
Aquella joven de blanco
1964
School of Seductresses
1962
Torrejón City
1962
Horizontes de luz
1962
Todos eran culpables
1962
La paz empieza nunca
1960
Un tipo de sangre
1960
Ama Rosa
1960
El hombre que perdió el tren
1960
Un bruto para Patricia
1960
Salto a la gloria
1959
S.O.S., abuelita
1959
Llegaron los franceses
1959
Un indiano en Moratilla
1958
Desert Warrior
1957
Viaje de novios
1956
Miedo
1956
El juramento de Lagardere
1955
The Miller's Saucy Wife
1955
El tren expreso
1955
3 citas con el destino
1954
The Count of Monte Cristo
1953
La parda Flora
1952
The Tunnel
1952
El pendiente
1951
La vida color de rosa
1951
Suburbio
1951
The Marihuana Story
1950
La Guitarra de Gardel
1949
Se llamaba Carlos Gardel
1949
El jugador
1947
