Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Directing

Biography

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (5 May 1924 – 8 September 1978), also known as Leo Towers and as Babsy, was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter. Born as Leopoldo Torres Nilsson (he later changed his paternal surname from Torres to Torre) was the son of Argentine pioneer film director Leopoldo Torres Ríos, with whom he collaborated between 1939 and 1949. He debuted in 1947 with the short El muro. His mother was an Argentinian citizen of Swedish descent. His uncle was cinematographer Carlos Torres Ríos (1898–1956). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Filmography Movies

Acting

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La Tigra

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The film narrates the encounter between "La Tigra", a woman known by that nickname in the cafes of the port area for her character and her sharp claws, and Luis, a student of Fine Arts. There will be born a strong, passionate and necessarily brief relationship during which each of them will peek into the world of the other, until then unknown, unable to overcome the hostility of the same. Luis is unwilling or unable to leave his bourgeois stability and "La Tigra" is unable to leave an environment in which the malevo Olivera is the dominant figure.

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La Tigra

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Mi padre y yo

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Documentary about the life of Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, one of Argentina's most influential directors. Narrated by his son and director of the film, Pablo Torre.

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Mi padre y yo

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Güemes, la tierra en armas

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The story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century.

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Güemes, la tierra en armas

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Regreso a Coronel Vallejos

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A bitter postcard of the town of the Buenos Aires countryside that Argentinean writer Manuel Puig (1932-90) portrayed with singular mastery, based on his own land, a town named General Villegas. Its inhabitants never forgave him. However, a woman, owner of a painful and enigmatic past, will build a bridge between Coronel Vallejos, the town created by Puig, and the real General Villegas, trying to reconcile the place with the writer.

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Regreso a Coronel Vallejos

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Production

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El nieto de Congreve

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The relationship between a suffered gauchito and a foal.

El nieto de Congreve

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The relationship between a suffered gauchito and a foal.

Orca

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A gaucho flees from justice for murdering a man with whom his girlfriend was betraying him. He settles in a place where he falls in love with a woman, also desired by the local commissioner.

The Dependent

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Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.

Painted Lips

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The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.

El comisario de Tranco Largo

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A workers' strike provokes acts of violence and the death of the town's commissioner.

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El comisario de Tranco Largo

Assistant Director

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The Terrace

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A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but they threaten to jump down if any adults enter the terrace.

The Hand in the Trap

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This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic.

The Female: Seventy Times Seven

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Cora is a Mexican prostitute with typically inconsiderate johns. She is troubled by a hole in the ceiling. The hole triggers flashbacks regarding how she got to where she is; she hooked up with a gringo and got involved in digging a well. A horse thief given up for dead gives them a hand.

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The Female: Seventy Times Seven

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