Argentina Sono Film
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Argentina Sono Film S.A.C.I. is an entertainment company based in Buenos Aires that produced most of the major films during the classic period of Argentine cinema from 1933. In its current format, it serves as a production and distribution company.
History[]
First decade, founding and development[]
Luis José Moglia Barth, the director of several films in the silent era, made a proposition to Ángel Mentasti, a prominent businessman in the film industry, to direct a sound feature film based around tango; this formed the beginnings of Argentina Sono Film. The name of this film was to be ¡Tango!, in which popular figures, already well known by the public, would sing and dance throughout. The stars which Mentasti recruited were: Azucena Maizani, Luis Sandrini, Libertad Lamarque, Mercedes Simone, Tita Merello, Pepe Arias, Alberto Gómez, Alicia Vignoli, Meneca Tailhade and Juan Sarcione. ¡Tango! thus became the first feature film produced by Argentina Sono Film and also marked the beginning of the sound era in Argentine cinema. Within the field of cinematic historiography, certain scholars suggest that other films, making use of the same technology, had already been finished by the time of ¡Tango!; there is no doubt, however, that ¡Tango! was the first sound film to be exhibited. The same year, Dancing (1933) was directed by Luis José Moglia Barth and was also a musical film based around tango; there are no existing copies of the film.
Selected list[]
The company has produced over 200 films to date in Argentina.
- ¡Tango!
- 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
- A hierro muere
- Al toque de clarín
- Alenjndra
- Almafuerte
- Amor a primera vista
- Amor en el aire
- Amor prohibido
- Amor se dice cantando
- ¡Atraco!
- Bajó un ángel del cielo
- Black Ermine
- Boína blanca
- Brigada explosiva
- La caída
- Canario rojo
- Caídos en el infierno
- Chico Viola Não Morreu
- Confesión
- Convivencia
- Dagli Appennini alle Ande
- Dancing
- Detrás de un largo muro
- Digan lo que digan
- Dios se lo pague
- Dos tipos con suerte
- Educating Niní (1940)
- El Conde de Montecristo
- El dinero de Dios
- El Hincha
- El juramento de Lagardere
- El patio de la morocha
- El secuestrador
- El tango vuelve a París
- El tercer beso
- El vampiro negro
- En la ardiente oscuridad
- Especialista en señoras
- Ésta es mi vida
- Extermineitors II, la venganza del dragón
- Fragata Sarmiento
- Graciela
- Guacho
- El hermano José
- Hogar, dulce hogar
- La casa del recuerdo
- La edad del amor
- La hermosa mentira
- La indeseable
- La mejor del colegio
- La niña del gato
- La orquídea
- La Rubia Mireya
- La vida color de rosa
- Locuras, tiros y mambos
- Los Bañeros más locos del mundo
- Los hermanos corsos
- Los problemas de Papá
- Luna Park
- Maestro Levita
- María Magdalena
- Mi marido y mi novio
- Más allá del olvido
- Napoleón
- Novia para dos
- Oro bajo
- Passport to Rio
- Placeres conyugales
- Pobre pero honrado
- Procesado 1040
- Story of a Bad Woman
- Todo el año es Navidad
- Vacaciones en el otro mundo
- Valle negro
- Veraneo en Mar del Plata
- Vigilantes y ladrones
- Zafra
- Film production companies of Argentina
- Mass media companies established in 1933
- 1933 establishments in Argentina