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 ...
directed by
Rodolfo Kuhn
Rodolfo Kuhn (29 December 1934 – 3 January 1987) was an Argentine film director, screen writer and producer.
Kuhn was born in Buenos Aires.
He directed and wrote the script to the 1967 popular Brazilian film, '' El ABC del amor'' with ...
. It was entered into the
15th Berlin International Film Festival
The 15th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 25 June to 6 July 1965. The festival started selecting the jury members on its own rather than countries sending designated representatives. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Fren ...
. It was also selected as the Argentine entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards.
Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
38th Academy Awards
The 38th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1965, were held on April 18, 1966, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope.
The ceremony was broadcast on the ABC network and was ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film is a
satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming ...
of the promotional machine behind the Argentine pop stars of the 1960s.
In 2000, it was included in the list of
The 100 Greatest Films of Argentine Cinema
The 100 Greatest Films of Argentine Cinema (Spanish: ''Las 100 mejores películas del cine argentino''), also known as the Survey of Argentine cinema (Spanish: ''Encuesta de cine argentino''), are a series of opinion polls carried out to establis ...
at number 27, after a poll conducted by the
Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken
Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken is a museum of cinema of Argentina located in Buenos Aires. It was established on 1971 and holds a collection of 65,000 reels of film.
History
The Cinema Museum of the City of Buenos Aires was created on O ...
. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines ''La vida util'', ''Taipei'' and ''La tierra quema'', presented at the
Mar del Plata International Film Festival
The Mar del Plata International Film Festival ( es, Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata) is an international film festival that takes place every November in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. It is the only competitive feature fes ...
, the film reached the 22nd position.
Cast
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Héctor Pellegrini
Héctor Pellegrini (6 August 1931 – 1 November 1999) was an Argentine film actor.
Pellegrini came to fame in the 1961 acclaimed film ''Alias Gardelito'' and made over 50 appearances mostly in film between 1961 and 1988.
Partial filmography
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Lautaro Murúa
Lautaro Murúa (; 29 December 1926 in Tacna, Chile – 3 December 1995 in Madrid) was a Chilean- Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is one of the best known actors in the cinema of Argentina.
Born in Chile, Murúa moved ...
as Gravini
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Alberto Fernández de Rosa
Alberto Fernández de Rosa (born 25 April 1944 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actor. He has acted on various Argentine films and television series for five decades.
Career
Alberto Fernandez de Rosa began acting as a child. He debuted in theat ...
as Bobby
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Maurice Jouvet
Maurice Jouvet (Hendaye, 3 February 1923 – Buenos Aires, 5 March 1999) was a French-born Argentine actor. He was married to actress Nelly Beltrán, with whom he had a daughter with.Beatriz Matar
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Jorge Rivera López
Jorge Rivera López (born 19 March 1934) is an Argentine actor of television and film.
Career
During the 1980s military dictatorship, López, along with Luis Brandoni, Roberto Cossa, Osvaldo Dragún and Pepe Soriano, accompanied by Nobel ...
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Federico Luppi
Federico Luppi (; February 23, 1936 – October 20, 2017) was an Argentine-Spanish film, TV, radio and theatre actor. He won numerous awards throughout his acting career, including a Concha de Plata at the San Sebastian International Film Fest ...
List of submissions to the 38th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 38th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films ...
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List of Argentine submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Argentina has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1961. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature length, feature-length motion pictu ...