León Klimovsky Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

León Klimovsky

León Klimovsky

Directing

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 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 Movies

Acting

Maravillas movie poster
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Maravillas

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Maravillas
Santos
El robobo de la jojoya movie poster
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El robobo de la jojoya

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El robobo de la jojoya
The Most Beautiful Night movie poster
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The Most Beautiful Night

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The Most Beautiful Night
The Sea Serpent movie poster
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The Sea Serpent

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The Sea Serpent
Dr. Moore
Dos mejor que uno movie poster
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Dos mejor que uno

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Dos mejor que uno
Librero
Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor movie poster
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Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor

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Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
El sexo ataca (1ª jornada) movie poster
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El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)

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El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
Chochoffsky
Amor casi... libre movie poster
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Amor casi... libre

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Amor casi... libre
Representante de Foscafé (uncredited)
I Saw Her First movie poster
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I Saw Her First

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I Saw Her First
Faustino
S.O.S., abuelita movie poster
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S.O.S., abuelita

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S.O.S., abuelita

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A Dragonfly for Each Corpse movie poster
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A Dragonfly for Each Corpse

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A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
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The Dracula Saga movie poster
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The Dracula Saga

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The Dracula Saga
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The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman movie poster
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The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman

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The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
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Trauma movie poster
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Trauma

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Trauma
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Her and Fear movie poster
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Her and Fear

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Her and Fear
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The Devil's Possessed movie poster
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The Devil's Possessed

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The Devil's Possessed
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The Night of the Walking Dead movie poster
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The Night of the Walking Dead

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The Night of the Walking Dead
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The People Who Own the Dark movie poster
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The People Who Own the Dark

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The People Who Own the Dark
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I Hate My Body movie poster
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I Hate My Body

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I Hate My Body
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I Hate My Body movie poster
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I Hate My Body

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I Hate My Body
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León Klimovsky portrait