The Bitter Stems 1956
Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school.
Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school.
The film begins with some sequences related to the youth of Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez, his arrival in Buenos Aires from his native Arrecifes, his law studies and a double frustration, as a writer and in his crush on a young woman who loved another man.
A young woman welcomes a stranger into her home who pretends to have an accident. After a fleeting romance, the two marry and she immediately inherits a fortune due to the death of her uncle. Later, the young woman discovered that there is a connection between the events.
The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
A trolley falls from a bridge to the Riachuelo, killing almost all its passengers. The families of the victims receive compensation, they improve their lifestyles and look down on the worker who didn't take the trolley that mortal day.
A rancher fleeing from marriage is conquered by a Spanish singer.
A submissive and unhappy man is mistaken for a famous assailant and people who despised him begin to respect him.
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 Sarmiento, named Domingo, according to the first autobiographical accounts.
In a mysterious farm house, a drug is made to resurrect people.
A foreign woman marries a rich man.
The education received at home influences the future of some neighborhood boys of different economic status.
A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital.
In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for deserting soldiers.
Aging-roue comedy: foxy grandpa's doctor tells him he needs to cut out the high-living and make a stable, tranquil home for himself, as befits his age and station... but he decides he'd rather do that by marrying his nephew off and piggybacking on the domestic tranquility created in that household.
The passionate love of a married woman and a single man.
A humble young woman receives a dowry from a rich uncle only if she marries, so she "rents" a boyfriend but she ends up falling in love with him.
An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.
Three-episode film linked to each other by means of a medallion, where love is the engine that drives people to act the way they did.
The struggle of two rural teachers to rebuild a school destroyed by a tornado.
A young man will try to escape at any cost from the humble conditions in which he lives in his neighborhood.