The Soul of the Accordion is a 1935

1935 in film

-Events:*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .*Seven year old Shirley Temple wins a special Academy Award.*The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment started in order to educate the Bantu peoples.-Top grossing films:-Academy Awards:...

  Argentine

Cinema of Argentina

The cinema of Argentina has a tradition dating back to the late nineteenth century, and continues to play a role in the culture of Argentina....

 tango

Tango music

Tango is a style of ballroom dance music in 2/4 or 4/4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay . It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, double bass, and two bandoneons...

 musical film

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 directed by Mario Soffici

Mario Soffici

Mario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of Florence, Soffici moved the Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on the film El Alma de Bandoneón, working with popular actors of the period such as...

 and written by José A. Bugliot.It is considered one of the earliest classics of Argentine cinema.

The film starred Libertad Lamarque

Libertad Lamarque

Libertad Lamarque was an Argentine-Mexican actress and singer. Originally from Argentina, she reached fame throughout Latin America while living in Mexico and working in Mexican cinema.-Career:...

, Enrique Serrano

Enrique Serrano

Enrique Serrano was an Argentine actor and comedian in the 1940s and 1950s.He appeared in many films of the 1940s and 1950s including Muchachas que estudian, Asi es la vida .He starred in some 40 films between 1935 and 1964....

 and Santiago Arrieta.

Plot

A rich countryman sends his son to the city to study. He becomes involved in a romantic relationship with a girl who wants to succeed in singing. The couple goes through great sacrifice and renunciation.

The radio and popular figures and their listeners are among the themes of this film. One of its most successful sequences occurs when the singer plays a tango Cambalache, written by Enrique Santos Discépolo

Enrique Santos Discépolo

Enrique Santos Discépolo was an Argentine tango and milonga musician and composer, author of famous tangos such as Cambalache and many others performed by several of the most important singers of his time, amongst them notably Carlos Gardel.Discépolo was born in Buenos Aires...

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Cast

• Enrique Serrano
  Enrique Serrano
  Enrique Serrano was an Argentine actor and comedian in the 1940s and 1950s.He appeared in many films of the 1940s and 1950s including Muchachas que estudian, Asi es la vida .He starred in some 40 films between 1935 and 1964....
  
  
• Santiago Arrieta
• Gogó Andreu
• Héctor Calcaño
  Héctor Calcaño
  Héctor Calcaño was an Argentine film actor. He appeared in nearly 70 films between 1933 and 1968.-Filmography:1. Este cura ... aka Operación San Antonio 2. Señora del intendente, La .... Mezadra...
  
  
• Charlo
• Dora Davis
• Ernesto Fama
• Miguel Gómez Bao
• Libertad Lamarque
  Libertad Lamarque
  Libertad Lamarque was an Argentine-Mexican actress and singer. Originally from Argentina, she reached fame throughout Latin America while living in Mexico and working in Mexican cinema.-Career:...
  
  
• Francisco Lomuto
  Francisco Lomuto
  Francisco Juan Lomuto was an Argentine Tango Pianist, leader and composer who occasionally went by the Pseudonym: Pancho Laguna....
  
  
• Pepita Muñoz
• Domingo Sapelli

Further reading

• Di Núbila, Domingo (1998). La época de oro. Historia del cine argentino I, Buenos Aires. Ediciones del Jilguero. ISBN 987-95786-5-1.
• Manrupe, Raúl; Portela, María Alejandra (2001). Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995), Buenos Aires, Editorial Corregidor. ISBN 950-05-0896-6.
• España, Claudio; Rosado, Miguel Ángel (1984). Medio siglo de cine, 1° edición (en español), Buenos Aires. Editorial Abril S.A. y Editorial del Heraldo S.A.. ISBN 950-10-0133-4.

External links

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026062/