Orestes Caviglia
Know for: Acting
Born: 1893-11-09
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Melgarejo (1937)
An adultery-induced woman is helped by her driver who discovers the villains.
La Pampa Gringa (1963)
“My life was the same as that of thousands of gringos: I plowed and sowed the land, and went to the bar on Sunday.” Such is the refrain...
Huella (1940)
In 1840, a caravan of carts headed from Buenos Aires to Córdoba carrying merchandise, ammunition and prisoners, against the background of the...
Nace la libertad (1949)
In 1812, the Argentine people and the army of the north resist the royalist advances.
Tararira (la bohemia de hoy) (1936)
A musical film with a performance by the group that was very fashionable at the time, El Cuarteto Aguilar. It was produced in 1936 but was never...
Malambo (1942)
Based on a quechua legend, Malambo tells the story of a woman who lost her husband and son because of the greedy patrón of an hacienda. She...
Su mejor alumno (1944)
The film tells the story of the natural son of a former president of Argentina and father of public education in the country, Domingo Faustino...
The Boss (1958)
The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.
Paula Cautiva (1963)
An Argentine who emigrated to the United States finds himself by chance in Argentina for business. There he hires a woman, Paula, who is from a...
La cabalgata del circo (1945)
The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama...
North Wind (1937)
In an indigenous village a murder occurs, and young man is sentenced to death for it. However his father, the real culprit, takes the responsibility.
Tierra del Fuego (1948)
Several individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most...
Rosa de América (1946)
The life of Saint Rosa de Lima.
Casa de muñecas (1943)
The conflict of a woman with her husband when she starts defending her individuality.
En el viejo Buenos Aires (1942)
The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.
Una vez en la vida (1941)
A woman helps a man escape from the police and ends up falling in love with him.
Pelota de trapo (1948)
This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and...
El pobre Pérez (1937)
Juan Pérez is a waiter in a luxurious place where the bachelor party of a man who is going to get married for convenience is done. When a...
El cielo en las manos (1950)
Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.
Nunca te diré adiós (1947)
The passionate love of a married woman and a single man.
Cadetes de San Martín (1937)
A rural businessman is robbed by a corrupt partner and his cadet son and good student aspires to run the business.
Albergue de mujeres (1946)
Different stories that take place in a women's accommodation.
De padre desconocido (1949)
A single mother is unjustly detained by the police. A lawyer, son of the judge in the case, falls in love with her.
Appointment at the Border (1940)
Two middle-aged brothers fall in love with a tango singer they have met in a gambling hall, after she is stranded in their border mining town,...
La maestrita de los obreros (1942)
The relationship of the young night school teacher with her students.
Con las alas rotas (1938)
A man finds out his wife had a lover and abandons her, but first he gains custody of their daughter.
El matrero (1939)
A gaucho unjustly accused of murder becomes a dangerous nomad.
Al toque de clarín (1941)
A retired army captain runs a farm using military methods.
Pueblo chico, infierno grande (1940)
A man returns to the town where he abandoned his wife and daughter for ten years.
El matrero (1939)
A gaucho unjustly accused of murder becomes a dangerous nomad.
Mis cinco hijos (1948)
After reaching retirement age and leaving his job, a fatrher devotes all his attention to helping his children transition smoothly into their adult...