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Francisco José Lombardi
Francisco José Lombardi (born 3 August 1949) is a Peruvian film director, film producer, producer and screenwriter. He has directed 17 films since 1977 in film, 1977. He received the Silver Shell for Best Director in 1985 for his film ''The City and the Dogs'' based on the novel ''La ciudad y los perros'' by Mario Vargas Llosa. His film ''Without Compassion'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Maruja in Hell'' (1983) * ''The City and the Dogs'' (1985) * ''The Mouth of the Wolf (1988 film), The Mouth of the Wolf'' (1988) * ''Fallen from Heaven'' (1990) * ''Without Compassion'' (1994) * ''No se lo Digas a Nadie'' (''Don't Tell Anyone'') (1998) * ''Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (2000 film), Captain Pantoja and the Special Services'' (2000) * ''Tinta roja (film), Tinta roja'' (2000) * ''Black Butterfly (2006 film), Black Butterfly'' (2006) References External links

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Tacna
Tacna was known for its mining industry; it had significant deposits of sodium nitrate and other resources. Its economic prosperity attracted a wave of immigrants from Italy. Today, their Italian Peruvian descendants live in the city and many of them still have Italian surnames. This era of successful commerce and agriculture ended drastically with the start of the War of the Pacific. Hosting a large Peru-Bolivian army under poor sanitary conditions the city lost a substantial part of its population to infectious diseases before its capture by Chile in May 1880 following a Battle of Tacna, defeat of the allied army in the outskirts of the city by a Chilean force under General Manuel Baquedano. Occupation by Chile During the war, the cities of Tacna and Arica, Chile, Arica were occupied by the Chilean Army, with Tacna being incorporated as a Communes of Chile, commune with a Tacna Province (Chile), province of the same name. A peace agreement, the Treaty of Ancón, was signed in 188 ...
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Maruja In Hell
''Maruja in Hell'' ( es, Maruja en el infierno) is a 1983 Peruvian drama film directed by Francisco José Lombardi. The film was selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. It is based on the novel ''No una, sino muchas muertes'' by Peruvian writer Enrique Congrains. Plot A boy named Alejandro is trying to find a job. His friend (an owner of an auto-shop and the ringleader of a street gang) invites him to take part in a robbery of a small recycling enterprise run by an arrogant and domineering middle-aged woman named Carmen. Carmen runs a business operation that consists of sorting out broken glassware in the backyard of her own house for a nearby glass factory. This work is done for her by a group of miserable, intellectually disabled men kept in fear and obedience by a cruel black man who works as an overseer. According to the plan worked out by the ringleader, the gang is supposed to captur ...
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Male Screenwriters
Male (Mars symbol, symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilization. A male organism cannot sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and Asexual reproduction, asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. Not all species share a common sex-determination system. In most animals, including Homo sapiens, humans, sex is determined genetics, genetically; however, species such as ''Cymothoa exigua'' change sex depending on the number of females present in the vicinity. In humans, the word ''male'' can also be used to refer to gender in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Overview The existence of separate sexes has evol ...
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Peruvian Screenwriters
Peruvians ( es, peruanos) are the citizens of Peru. There were Andean and coastal ancient civilizations like Caral, which inhabited what is now Peruvian territory for several millennia before the Spanish conquest of Peru, Spanish conquest in the 16th century; Peruvian population decreased from an estimated 5–9 million in the 1520s to around 600,000 in 1620 mainly because of infectious diseases carried by the Spanish Empire, Spanish. Spaniards and Afro-Peruvians, Africans arrived in large numbers in 1532 under colonial rule, mixing widely with each other and with Native Peruvians. During the Republic, there has been a gradual immigration of European people (especially from Spain and Italy, and in a less extent from Germany, France, Croatia, and the British Isles). Chinese people, Chinese and Japanese people, Japanese arrived in large numbers at the end of the 19th century. With 31.2 million inhabitants according to the 2017 Peru Census, 2017 Census, Peru is the List of South Am ...
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Peruvian Film Producers
Peruvians ( es, peruanos) are the citizens of Peru. There were Andean and coastal ancient civilizations like Caral, which inhabited what is now Peruvian territory for several millennia before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century; Peruvian population decreased from an estimated 5–9 million in the 1520s to around 600,000 in 1620 mainly because of infectious diseases carried by the Spanish. Spaniards and Africans arrived in large numbers in 1532 under colonial rule, mixing widely with each other and with Native Peruvians. During the Republic, there has been a gradual immigration of European people (especially from Spain and Italy, and in a less extent from Germany, France, Croatia, and the British Isles). Chinese and Japanese arrived in large numbers at the end of the 19th century. With 31.2 million inhabitants according to the 2017 Census, Peru is the fifth most populous country in South America. Its demographic growth rate declined from 2.6% to 1.6% between 1950 and 2000 ...
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Peruvian Film Directors
Peruvians ( es, peruanos) are the citizens of Peru. There were Andean and coastal ancient civilizations like Caral, which inhabited what is now Peruvian territory for several millennia before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century; Peruvian population decreased from an estimated 5–9 million in the 1520s to around 600,000 in 1620 mainly because of infectious diseases carried by the Spanish. Spaniards and Africans arrived in large numbers in 1532 under colonial rule, mixing widely with each other and with Native Peruvians. During the Republic, there has been a gradual immigration of European people (especially from Spain and Italy, and in a less extent from Germany, France, Croatia, and the British Isles). Chinese and Japanese arrived in large numbers at the end of the 19th century. With 31.2 million inhabitants according to the 2017 Census, Peru is the fifth most populous country in South America. Its demographic growth rate declined from 2.6% to 1.6% between 1950 and 2000 ...
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1949 Births
Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. * January 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States. * January 16 – Şemsettin Günaltay forms the new government of Turkey. It is the 18th government, last One-party state, single party government of the Republican People's Party. * January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle, VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City, New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon Sr., Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his ...
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Black Butterfly (2006 Film)
''Black Butterfly'' ( es, Mariposa negra) is a 2006 Peruvian drama film directed by Francisco Lombardi. The screenplay was written by Giovanna Pollarolo based on the novel of Alonso Cueto. Cast * Darío Abad as Guido Pazos *Gustavo Bueno as Osmán *Montserrat Carulla as Pilar * Yvonne Frayssinet as Dotty *Lluís Homar as Mar * Ricardo Morán as Ramón *Liliana Trujillo as Aida *Magdyel Ugaz as Ángela *Melania Urbina as Gabriela Awards and nominations Won Málaga Spanish Film Festival *Best Latin American Actress (Melania Urbina) Nominated Goya Awards The Goya Awards ( es, Premios Goya) are Spain's main national annual film awards, commonly referred to as the Academy Awards of Spain. The awards were established in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sc ... *Best Spanish Language Foreign Film (lost to ''XXY'') Montréal Film Festival *Grand Prix des Amériques (lost to ''O Maior Amor do Mundo'' and ''Nagai sanpo'') External link ...
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Tinta Roja (film)
''Red Ink'' ( es, Tinta roja, links=no) is a 2000 Peruvian-Spanish crime drama film directed by Francisco Lombardi from a screenplay by based on the novel by Alberto Fuguet Alberto Felipe Fuguet de Goyeneche (; born 7 March 1963) is a Chilean author, journalist, film critic and film director who rose to critical prominence in the 1990s as part of the movement known as the New Chilean Narrative. Although he was bo .... Plot summary Two university students, Alfonso Fernandez Ferrer and his girlfriend Nadia, report to the editor of a tabloid newspaper to begin their stints as trainees. Nadia is given first choice and chooses the entertainment section as her assignment. Alfonso indicates that he too wanted the entertainment section but is advised that, since the newspaper's policy is to assign only one trainee to each section and Nadia has already chosen entertainment, Alfonso must work in a different section. To Alfonso's consternation, he is assigned to serve as a trainee to ...
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Captain Pantoja And The Special Services (2000 Film)
''Captain Pantoja and the Special Services'' () is a 1999 Peruvian-Spanish film directed by Francisco J. Lombardi. It is based on the eponymous comic novel by Mario Vargas Llosa. The film was chosen as Peru's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not manage to receive a nomination. Plot The plot follows Captain Pantaleón Pantoja, a straightlaced army captain put in charge of creating a brothel for the army, in order to reduce the incidence of rape surrounding army bases and outposts. The first half of the movie focuses on the humor of the situation, as Pantaleon runs the brothel like an efficient branch of the army. The second half is more dramatic as the captain is changed by running the army brothel and focuses on his relationship with the prostitute Olga "the Colombian". Cast Production The film is a Peruvian-Spanish co-production, by América Producciones alongside Inca Films and Tornasol Films, with the participation ...
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Fallen From Heaven
''Fallen from Heaven'' ( es, Caídos del cielo) is a 1990 Peruvian drama film directed by Francisco José Lombardi. The film was selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Plot Set in Lima, the capital of Peru, at the end of the 1980s. The time is characterised as a period of political instability, severe economic crisis and violence related to the Internal conflict in Peru. In this film three stories are intertwined, whose characters belong to three different generations. One of the stories is Lizandro and Cucha's, an elderly couple who have lost their only child. Owners of several properties, their time is dedicated to collecting their tenants' rent; all their efforts are concentrated on constructing having a mausoleum designed for their deceased child. The next story is about Humberto, a successful radio broadcaster whose ...
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