Mario Sábato (born February 15, 1945) is an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. He is the son of the famed writer

Ernesto Sábato Ernesto Sabato (June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary wo ...

. He worked mainly in the

Cinema of Argentina Cinema of Argentina refers to the film industry based in Argentina. The Argentine cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of Argentina or by Argentine filmmakers abroad. The Argentine film industry has histor ...

best known for his children's

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

Filmography

* '' Y que patatín...y que patatán'' (1971) * '' ¡Hola Señor León!'' (1973) * '' Los golpes bajos'' (1974) * '' Un mundo de amor'' (1975) * '' Los superagentes biónicos'' (1977) * '' Los superagentes y el tesoro maldito'' (1978) * ''

El poder de las tinieblas ''The Power of Darkness'' ( es, El Poder de las tinieblas) is a 1979 Argentine mystery- horror thriller film written and directed by Mario Sábato and starring Sergio Renán. It is based on the chapter named ''Informe sobre ciegos'' ("Report on ...

'' (1979) * '' Tiro al aire'' (1980) * '' Los Parchís contra el inventor invisible'' (1981) * '' La magia de Los Parchís'' (1982) * '' Las aventuras de los Parchís'' (1982) * '' Superagentes y titanes'' (1983) * '' Al corazón'' (1995) * '' India Pravile'' (2003) * '' Ernesto Sabato, mi padre'' (documentary, 2010)

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* 1945 births Argentine film directors Argentine screenwriters Male screenwriters Argentine male writers Living people Argentine people of Arbëreshë descent {{Argentina-film-director-stub