Profile of León Klimovsky
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León Klimovsky

Born
1906-10-17
Birthplace
Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Born
1906-10-17
Died
1996-04-08
(89 years old)
Birthplace
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Biography

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......

Profile of León Klimovsky

León Klimovsky

Born
1906-10-17
Died
1996-04-08
(89 years old)
Birthplace
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Born
1906-10-17
Died
1996-04-08
(89 years old)
Birthplace
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Biography

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.

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The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman poster

1971

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Vengeance of the Zombies poster

1973

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The Legion of No Return poster

1969

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El robobo de la jojoya poster

1991

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The People Who Own the Dark poster

1976

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The Vampires' Night Orgy poster

1973

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Trauma poster

1978

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A Dragonfly for Each Corpse poster

1975

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The Count of Monte Cristo poster

1953

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Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf poster

1972

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A Few Dollars for Django poster

1966

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Reverend's Colt poster

1970

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The Devil's Possessed poster

1974

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Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor poster

1982

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Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest poster

1971

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I Hate My Body poster

1974

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The Night of the Walking Dead poster

1975

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Maravillas poster

1981

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Amo tu cama rica poster

1992

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The Dracula Saga poster

1973

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The Sea Serpent poster

1985

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Mean Mother poster

1974

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El jugador poster

1947

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Comedians poster

1954

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Death of a Hoodlum poster

1975

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A Bullet for Rommel poster

1969

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¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal? poster

1977

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The Most Beautiful Night poster

1984

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Rattler Kid poster

1967

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Billy the Kid poster

1964

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The Kidnapping poster

1976

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Viaje de novios poster

1956

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3 citas con el destino poster

1954

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El hombre que perdió el tren poster

1960

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El sexo ataca (1ª jornada) poster

1979

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Challenge of McKenna poster

1970

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Aquella joven de blanco poster

1964

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The Brother from Space poster

1988

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Seven Into Hell poster

1968

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Quinto: Fighting Proud poster

1969

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El pendiente poster

1951

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The Tunnel poster

1952

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La Barraca poster

1979

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La paz empieza nunca poster

1960

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The Marihuana Story poster

1950

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Suburbio poster

1951

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Death Knows No Time poster

1968

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La casa de las Chivas poster

1972

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Her and Fear poster

1964

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Dos mejor que uno poster

1984

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Torrejón City poster

1962

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Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote poster

1966

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Desert Warrior poster

1957

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Ama Rosa poster

1960

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Un tipo de sangre poster

1960

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A Lady Called Andrew poster

1970

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The Miller's Saucy Wife poster

1955

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The Shack poster

1979

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Amor casi... libre poster

1976

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Todos eran culpables poster

1962

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Un indiano en Moratilla poster

1958

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Three Days in November poster

1977

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I Saw Her First poster

1974

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Se abre el abismo poster

1945

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Rodríguez supernumerario poster

1948

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La colina de los pequeños diablos poster

1965

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Escala en Tenerife poster

1964

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S.O.S., abuelita poster

1959

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Salto a la gloria poster

1959

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Los hombres las prefieren viudas poster

1970

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School of Seductresses poster

1962

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Die Easy in Ghentar poster

1967

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La Guitarra de Gardel poster

1949

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Una chica para dos poster

1966

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Un bruto para Patricia poster

1960

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Tres millones... y el amor poster

1946

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The Mysterious Uncle Silas poster

1947

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Siete para un secreto poster

1947

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Se llamaba Carlos Gardel poster

1949

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El hombre que vino del odio poster

1972

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El talón de Aquiles poster

1974

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El juramento de Lagardere poster

1955

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La parda Flora poster

1952

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Una mujer sin importancia poster

1945

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Albergue de mujeres poster

1946

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Llegaron los franceses poster

1959

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El tren expreso poster

1955

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Horizontes de luz poster

1962

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Miedo poster

1956

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La vida color de rosa poster

1951

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