Alberto Lecchi is an Argentine

Argentina

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 film

Film director

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 and film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

.

Born in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, Lecchi started working in Argentine cinema in 1979, as a second assistant director to Hugo Sofovich

Hugo Sofovich

Hugo Sofovich was an Argentine film director and screenwriter.Although predominantly a screenwriter, Sofovich directed 15 films and script write over 20 films during his career, directed and writing films such as Amante para dos in 1988...

 in the three films he directed that year. Lecchi went on to work in the 80s and early 90s along acclaimed directors, working eight times with Fernando Ayala

Fernando Ayala

Fernando Ayala was an Argentine film producer, film director, screenwriter and film producer of the classic era...

, four times with Adolfo Aristarain

Adolfo Aristarain

Adolfo Aristarain is an Argentine film director whom Variety has deemed a "master filmmaker."After leaving Argentina Aristarain started working as assistant director in the Arcente cinema, and then in Europe during his short exile for Mario Camus, Giorgio Stegani and Lewis Gilbert before...

 and with Juan José Jusid

Juan José Jusid

Juan José Jusid is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.He started his professional career as an actor, Puppeteer and stage photographer in the 1960s then switched to film studies at the Association of Short Film Directors.He turned director and screenwriter in 1968 and has directed...

 in Plata dulce.

His directorial debut was in 1984 with El Sueño de Cecilia, a six-minute short, but came to prominence when he directed Ricardo Darín

Ricardo Darín

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 and Enrique Pinti

Enrique Pinti

Enrique Pinti is a famous Argentine political humorist and actor.As a humorist, he performs stand-up shows with long monologues on Argentine politics and history, speaking at an extremely fast pace and resorting to a mix of common swearwords and elaborate insults to qualify notorious examples of...

 in the thriller Perdido por perdido in 1993, his first feature-length movie, and his second turn as director, after which he gave up his career as assistant director. Lecchi established himself as a prolific film director in the 90s, directing El Dedo en la Llaga (1996), the critically acclaimed Secretos compartidos (1998) and Operación Fangio

Operación Fangio

Operación Fangio is a 1999 Argentinian film directed by Alberto Lecchi and starring Darío Grandinetti. Its subject is the 1958 kidnapping of Juan Manuel Fangio in Havana, Cuba....

(1998), and working with Argentine A-list actors Darío Grandinetti

Darío Grandinetti

Darío Grandinetti is an Argentine actor. Among many other films, he worked under the direction of Pedro Almodóvar in the Academy Award winner Talk to Her....

, Víctor Laplace

Víctor Laplace

Víctor Laplace is an acclaimed Argentine film actor. He has appeared in over 80 films since 1970, such as Eva Perón and Un Amor en Moisés Ville in 2001, as well as extensive local and international theatre credits.-Filmography:#Detrás del sol, más cielo - Antón#Angelelli, la...

, and Pinti.

In 2000, Lecchi directed the romantic comedy

Romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily"...

 Apariencias

Apariencias

Apariencias is a 2000 Argentine romantic comedy film directed by Alberto Lecchi and starring Andrea Del Boca and Adrián Suar.-Plot summary:...

, starring Adrián Suar

Adrián Suar

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 and Andrea del Boca

Andrea Del Boca

Andrea Del Boca is an Argentine telenovela actress.- Biography :Del Boca made her debut as a four-year-old in a television show hosted by Teresa Blasco...

, as well as Nueces para el amor, which starred Gastón Pauls

Gastón Pauls

Gaston Pauls is an Argentina actor, TV host and producer. He started his career on television as a host of a videoclip show before starring in the teen soap opera Montaña Rusa, where he met Nancy Duplaa whom he dated for a few years...

, Ariadna Gil

Ariadna Gil

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 and Rodrigo de la Serna

Rodrigo de la Serna

Rodrigo de la Serna is an Argentine actor.In 2004, he won the Silver Condor for best actor and the Independent Spirit Award for "Best Debut Performance" for the film The Motorcycle Diaries, for which he earned a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award...

. A year later he directed Déjala correr, starring Nicolás Cabré

Nicolás Cabré

Nicolás Gabriel Cabré is an Argentine actor and television host. Known for his film, stage and television work, he has won ACE Award and earned four Martín Fierro Award nominations. Cabré is also a regular feature in Argentine press, and his off–screen life is widely reported.- Filmography :-...

, Pablo Rago

Pablo Rago

Pablo Rago is an Argentine actor. He has acted in the movies The Official Story and The Secret in Their Eyes, two Argentine movies that have both won Oscar awards, as well as many other local movies and productions....

 and Julieta Díaz

Julieta Díaz

Julieta Díaz is an Argentine film, television, and theatre actress. She began her career at age 13.Díaz works in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:* Lobos marinos * Déjala correr...

. 2003 marked Lecchi's third collaboration with Grandinetti, in El Juego del Arcibel.

In 2004, Lecchi directed one of the shorts presented in the anthology 18-j

18-J

18-j is a 2004 Argentine docudrama. The motion picture is a collection of ten, ten-minute shorts, by ten Argentine directors. The film focuses on the July 18, 1994 bombing of the AMIA Building in Buenos Aires, where 86 people were killed and 300 others wounded. The perpetrators were never caught...

, a collection of 10 shorts directed by 10 highly acclaimed Argentine directors homaging the tenth anniversary of the 1994 AMIA bombing. On the same year, he created the TV series Epitafios

Epitafios

Epitafios is a 2004 13 episode, Argentinian crime fiction TV mini-series with the tagline: El Final Está Escrito ... The End Is Written. The series, which takes place in an unnamed South American city, was shot in Buenos Aires....

along fellow director Jorge Nisco

Jorge Nisco

- Career :Jorge Nisco started his career in 1997, when he met actor Adrián Suar, who pitched him an idea for a TV show called "R.R.D.T". The show starred name actors Carlos Calvo, China Zorrilla, José "Pepe" Soriano, Nancy Dupláa and Diego Peretti, and brought Nisco to prominence in the Argentine...

, a 13-episode mini-series starring Julio Chávez

Julio Chávez

Julio Chávez is a well-known Argentine film and television actor.He was born Julio Hirsch in Buenos Aires, and received his first film role in 1973...

, Paola Krum

Paola Krum

Paola Krum was born Andrea Paola Krum on June 20, 1970 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an actress, singer, and dancer, and is one of the many young, multi-talented Argentine performers of the present day. She has studied theater, dance, and voice since she was 10. Her breakthrough came in the...

 and Cecilia Roth

Cecilia Roth

Cecilia Roth is an Argentine actress.Her father, Abrasha Rotenberg , a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Ukraine, is an editor and a journalist. He met Cecilia's mother, an Argentinian singer of Sephardic descent Dina Rot, in Argentina. Cecilia Roth has made appearances in numerous television series...

. It was the first original series produced by HBO and HBO Latin America. He also directed an episode of the series Mujeres asesinas in 2006.

Lecchi has recently directed his ninth feature film, Una Estrella y dos cafés, which premiered 2006 and reunited the protagonists of Nueces para el amor, Pauls and Gil.

External links

• "Official" website (in Spanish): http://albertolecchi.com.ar/