Lautaro Murúa

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Lautaro Murúa in 1958

Lautaro Murúa (born December 29, 1925 in Tacna , Chile , † December 3, 1995 in Madrid , Spain ) was an Argentine actor , film director and screenwriter .

Life

Beginnings as an actor

Although born in Chile, Lautaro Murúa was best known and famous for films in Argentine cinema . The then 32-year-old made his film debut in The Angel's House at Elsa Daniel's side . The film by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson was at the 1957 International Film Festival in Cannes shown and made his actors famous overnight. Murúa soon became one of the most sought-after actors of the 1950s. The actor worked with Leopold Torre Nilsson several times in the following years. For example, he stood in front of the camera for him in El secuestrador in 1958 and in Traitors of San Angel in 1967 .

Directorial work

In 1960 Lautrao Murúa made his directorial debut with the film Shunko . It is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Jorge W. Ábalos , which was processed into a script by Augusto Roa Bastos . The film about a teacher trying to build a school in the poorer districts of Santiago del Estero was highly praised by the critics. The UNESCO is one of the work of the "Argentina's most important films of the last 100 years."

Murúa also worked again with the author Augusto Roa Bastos for his second film, Alias ​​Gardelito . Together with Bernardo Kordon, he wrote the script, which is based on Kordon's memories. The film, which shows the less beautiful side of the so-called "City of Dreams" Buenos Aires , won the most important Argentine film award, the Premios Cóndor de Plata , in 1968 . Lautaro Murúa is one of the representatives of the “new Argentine cinema”, a style similar to film noir and the nouvelle vague that developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of his films are about the Argentine middle or lower class and the struggle for survival during the civil war.

Last years and death

Lautaro Murúa's last directorial work was a film adaptation of Osvaldo Soriano 's novel Cuarteles de invierno . He staged the story of an aging boxer and a tango singer during the military dictatorship in Argentina with Enrique Almada , Gogó Andreu and Patricio Contreras in the leading roles. Afterwards, Lataro Murúa only appeared as an actor. In his almost 40-year career, the actor had appeared in more than 60 films. He died of lung cancer in a hospital in Madrid in 1995 at the age of 69.

Filmography

As a director

As an actor

  • 1957: The Angel's House (La casa del ángel)
  • 1958: Demasiado Jovenes
  • 1958: Fecha
  • 1958: El secuestrador
  • 1962: The Odd Figure La cifra impar
  • 1963: La Terraza
  • 1965: Pajarito Gómez, una vida feliz
  • 1967: Traitors of San Angel (Los traidores de San Ángel)
  • 1968: Martín Fierro film adaptation of the poem of the same name
  • 1971: Crónica de una señora
  • 1973: Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (Los Ojos azules de la muñeca rota)
  • 1976: No toquen a la nena
  • 1980: La Muchacha de las Bragas de Oro
  • 1980: Human Beasts El carnaval de las bestias
  • 1983: the man she called horse Triumph (Triumph of a Man Called Horse)
  • 1983: Dirty guerrilla warfare (No habrá más penas ni olvido)
  • 1984: Nights without moon and sun (Noches sin lunas ni soles)
  • 1985: Pobre Mariposa
  • 1985: Tangos, el exilio de Gardel
  • 1993: Un muro de silencio
  • 1990: Me, the worst of them all (Yo, la peor de todas)
  • 1991: Scream of Stone (Cerro Torre)
  • 1992: The Plague (La Peste)
  • 1993: A Wall of Silence (Un Muro de Silencio)
  • 1995: Belmonte

Scripts

Web links

Commons : Lautaro Murúa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lautaro Murua - Filmografía y Biografía. In: www.videomaniaticos.com. Retrieved August 26, 2010 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Unofficial biography of Lautaro Murua. Lautaro Murua life and work. (No longer available online.) In: www.mundoandino.com. Archived from the original on October 29, 2010 ; Retrieved on August 26, 2010 (English): “Lautaro Murua was a Chilean-born Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is one of the best known actors in the Cinema of Argentina. “ Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mundoandino.com
  3. ↑ "Shunko" por La Nación e Imaginaria. In: roabastos.spaces.live.com. Retrieved on August 26, 2010 (Spanish): “En 1960, Lautaro Murúa, el destacado actor chileno afincado aquí, llevó la historia al cine en su primer trabajo como director. La crítica elogió su [...] "
  4. ^ Film Culture in Paraguay. (No longer available online.) In: www.sensesofcinema.com. Archived from the original on April 22, 2010 ; accessed on September 7, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archive.sensesofcinema.com
  5. ^ Leslie Bethell: The Cambridge history of Latin America . 1995, ISBN 0-521-49594-6 (English, Lautaro Murua showed the sordid side of the 'City of Dreams' Buenos Aires in his Alias ​​Gardelito (1960), […]).
  6. ^ Fallce en un hospital de Madrid Lautaro Murúa. In: elpais.com. Retrieved on August 26, 2010 (Spanish): "El actor y director Lautaro Murúa falleció ayer en Madrid a los 69 años de edad a consecuencia de un cáncer de pulmón."
personal data
SURNAME Murúa, Lautaro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Tacna
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1995
Place of death Madrid