''Fangio, the Demon of the Tracks'' () is a

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 ...

Argentine

motor racing An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one or more forms of energy into mechanical energy. Available energy sources include potential energy (e.g. energy of the Earth's gravitational field as exploited in hydroelectric power gene ...

film of the classical era of Argentine cinema, directed by

Román Viñoly Barreto Román Viñoly Barreto (8 August 1910 – 20 August 1970) was a Uruguayan-Argentine film director notable for his work during the classical era of Argentine cinema. Biography Viñoly Barreto directed 28 feature films between 1947 and 1966 i ...

, starring Yvonne Bastien,

Ernesto Bianco Ernesto, form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to: * ''Ernesto'' (novel) (1953), an unfinished autobiographical novel by Umberto Saba, published posthumously in 1975 ** ''Ernesto'' (film), a 1979 Italian drama loosely ba ...

, Armando Bo and Néstor Deval. The film is a

biopic A biographical film or biopic () is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from docudrama films and histo ...

about the life of legendary Argentine motor racer

Juan Manuel Fangio Juan Manuel Fangio (, ; 24 June 1911 – 17 July 1995) was an Argentine racing driver, who competed in Formula One from to . Nicknamed "el Chueco" and "el Maestro", Fangio won five Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles and—at the ti ...

and also features himself in a few

cameo role A cameo appearance, also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo (), is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking one ...

Cast

* Armando Bo * Miguel Gómez Bao * Eva Dongé * Ivonne De Lys * Domingo Sapelli *

* Maruja Roig * Luis Elías Sojit * Jacinto Herrera * Néstor Deval * Fernando Labat * Vicente Thomas * Ricardo Degrossi *

as himself. * Aníbal Romero

References

External links

* 1950 films 1950s Spanish-language films Argentine black-and-white films Films directed by Román Viñoly Barreto Argentine auto racing films 1950s sports films Biographical films about sportspeople Cultural depictions of Juan Manuel Fangio Juan Manuel Fangio 1950s Argentine films {{1950s-Argentina-film-stub