León Klimovsky

Director, Actor, Escritor, Productor

17 de octubre de 1906 — 8 de abril de 1996 (89 años)
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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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Películas y series en Plex

  • La orgía nocturna de los vampiros
    La orgía nocturna de los vampiros1973
  • La rebelión de las muertas
    La rebelión de las muertas1973
  • Una libélula para cada muerto
    Una libélula para cada muerto1975
  • Un hombre vino a matar
    Un hombre vino a matar1967
  • Pagó cara su muerte
    Pagó cara su muerte1968

Conocido por

  • La noche de Walpurgis
    La noche de Walpurgis1971
  • La rebelión de las muertas
    La rebelión de las muertas1973
  • Doctor Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo
    Doctor Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo1972
  • Una libélula para cada muerto
    Una libélula para cada muerto1975
  • Último deseo
    Último deseo1976
  • Violación Fatal
    Violación Fatal1978
  • Alambradas de violencia
    Alambradas de violencia1966
  • La orgía nocturna de los vampiros
    La orgía nocturna de los vampiros1973
  • El Mariscal del infierno
    El Mariscal del infierno1974
  • Mean Mother
    Mean Mother1974
  • La saga de los Drácula
    La saga de los Drácula1973
  • El extraño amor de los vampiros
    El extraño amor de los vampiros1975
  • Reverendo Colt
    Reverendo Colt1970
  • Un hombre vino a matar
    Un hombre vino a matar1967
  • Un dólar para Sartana
    Un dólar para Sartana1971
  • Hora cero: Operación Rommel
    Hora cero: Operación Rommel1969
  • Pagó cara su muerte
    Pagó cara su muerte1968
  • No importa morir
    No importa morir1969
  • La Barraca
    La Barraca1 season
  • Junio 44: desembarcaremos en Normandía
    Junio 44: desembarcaremos en Normandía1968

Filmography

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