''Adiós Buenos Aires'' (English language: ''Goodbye Buenos Aires'') is a 1938

Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

musical film Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the Character (arts), characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serv ...

directed and written by

Leopoldo Torres Ríos Leopoldo Torres Ríos (27 December 1899 – 10 April 1960) was an Argentina, Argentine film director and screenwriter notable for his work during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. His brother Carlos Torres Ríos was a notable cinematographer. ...

. The film starred

Tito Lusiardo Tito Lusiardo (September 13, 1896 – June 25, 1982 in Buenos Aires) was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer, notable for his work during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some ...

and a 19-year-old

Amelia Bence Amelia Bence (born María Amelia Batvinik; 13 November 1914 – 8 February 2016) was an Argentine film actress and one of the divas of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema during the 1930s and 1950s. Born to Belarusian Jewish immigrants, Bence b ...

. Released during the

Golden Age of Argentine cinema The Golden Age of Argentine cinema (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Época de Oro del cine argentino'' or other equivalent names), sometimes known interchangeably as the broader classical or classical-industrial period (Spanish: ''período clásico- ...

, the film is a musical about

tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries from a combination of Arge ...

dancing, an integral part of

culture. The film followed on from Adiós Argentina another tango based musical released in 1930.

Other cast

Héctor Calcaño Héctor Calcaño (born Héctor Calcagno, 1894–1969) was an Argentine film actor. He appeared in nearly 70 films between 1933 and 1968. He died on 7 September 1969. Filmography *''Este cura'' (1968) - a.k.a. Operación San Antonio (Argentina) * ...

* Antonio Capuano * Delia Codebó * Mario Danesi * Floren Delbene * Vicente Forastieri * María Goicoechea * Eduardo González *

Ernesto Lecuona Ernesto Lecuona y Casado (; August 7, 1895 – November 29, 1963) was a Cuban composer and pianist, many of whose works have become standards of the Latin, jazz and classical repertoires. His over 600 compositions include songs and zarzuelas as ...

* Mario Mario as El guarda del Lacroze * Lely Morel * Esteban Serrador * Ignacio Villa * Ernesto Villegas

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* Argentine musical films 1938 films 1930s Spanish-language films Tango films Argentine black-and-white films Films directed by Leopoldo Torres Ríos 1938 musical films Films set in Buenos Aires 1930s Argentine films Spanish-language musical films {{Musical-film-stub