León Klimovsky
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Born 1906-10-17
Died 1996-04-08
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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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.
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Directing
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Torrejón City
La Barraca
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
The Devil's Possessed
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
The People Who Own the Dark
Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf
A Few Dollars for Django
A Bullet for Rommel
The Night of the Walking Dead
School of Seductresses
Vengeance of the Zombies
Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest
Rattler Kid
I Hate My Body
El jugador
Reverend's Colt
The Vampires' Night Orgy
Desert Warrior
The Dracula Saga
The Legion of No Return
Death Knows No Time
Quinto: Fighting Proud
Trauma
Un bruto para Patricia
Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote
The Marihuana Story
Challenge of McKenna
Death of a Hoodlum
The Count of Monte Cristo
Seven Into Hell
The Miller's Saucy Wife
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
The Kidnapping
Viaje de novios
Los hombres las prefieren viudas
El hombre que vino del odio
Llegaron los franceses
Billy the Kid
The Shack
Una chica para dos
La paz empieza nunca
S.O.S., abuelita
Todos eran culpables
Horizontes de luz
La Guitarra de Gardel
Leap to Fame
Writing
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Torrejón City
A Lady Called Andrew
I Hate My Body
Un bruto para Patricia
Challenge of McKenna
The Count of Monte Cristo
La paz empieza nunca
S.O.S., abuelita
Se abre el abismo
Horizontes de luz
La Guitarra de Gardel
Acting
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El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
The Brother from Space
Amo tu cama rica
The Sea Serpent
Maravillas
Dos mejor que uno
Comedians
I Saw Her First
Todos eran culpables
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The Most Beautiful Night
El robobo de la jojoya
Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
Se abre el abismo
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