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León Klimovsky

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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Born:
Oct 6, 1906 In Buenos Aires, Argentina
Movie/TV Credits:
12
First Appeared:
In the movie S.O.S., abuelita 1959-10-16
Latest Project:
Movie Amo tu cama rica 1992-01-31
Known For
Poster of El robobo de la jojoya
Poster of Dos mejor que uno
Poster of Amor casi... libre
Poster of I Saw Her First
Filmography
Movie Amo tu cama rica Tornatto 1992-01-31
Movie El robobo de la jojoya 1991-12-20
Movie The Brother from Space 1988-01-01
Movie The Sea Serpent Dr. Moore 1985-04-26
Movie The Most Beautiful Night 1984-09-24
Movie Dos mejor que uno Librero 1984-10-17
Movie Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor 1982-09-07
Movie Maravillas Santos 1981-02-26
Movie El sexo ataca (1ª jornada) Chochoffsky 1979-06-14
Movie Amor casi... libre Representante de Foscafé (uncredited) 1976-05-26
Movie I Saw Her First Faustino 1974-06-18
Movie S.O.S., abuelita 1959-10-16