''Pajarito Gómez'' is a 1965 Argentine

comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...

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 E ...

. 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 '' Alph ...

. It was also selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film 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, and were the first Oscars to be broadcast live in colo ...

, 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 exposin ...

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 Oc ...

. 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 () is an List of film festivals, international film festival that takes place every November in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. It is the only competitive feature festival recognized by the FIAPF ...

, the film reached the 22nd position.

Cast

* Héctor Pellegrini as Pajarito Gómez *

María Cristina Laurenz María Cristina Laurenz (born 1940) is a retired Argentine actress and singer active between 1960 and 1994. She is the daughter of Tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the ...

as Pajarito's fiancée *

Nelly Beltrán Nélida Dodó López Valverde known professionally as Nelly Beltrán (29 August 1925 – 2 December 2007) was an Argentine actress. She appeared on the radio from the age of 10 and in 85 theatrical performances, 48 films and 3 dozen television ...

as Rosalía *

Lautaro Murúa Lautaro Murúa (; 29 December 1926 – 3 December 1995) was a Chilean-Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most recognized figures in Argentine cinema. Born in Tacna, Chile (now part of Peru), Murúa mov ...

as Gravini *

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 *

Maurice Jouvet Maurice Jouvet (Hendaye, 3 February 1923 – Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río ...

* Beatriz Matar *

Jorge Rivera López Jorge Rivera López (19 March 1930 – 5 September 2024) was an Argentine television and film actor. Life and career Jorge Rivera López was born on 19 March 1930. During the 1980s military dictatorship, López, along with Luis Brandoni, Robe ...

Federico Luppi Federico Luppi (; February 23, 1936 – October 20, 2017) was an Argentine film, television, radio and theatre actor. He won numerous awards throughout his acting career. Biography Luppi worked mostly in Argentine cinema, but also worked in Ch ...

* Marta Gam *

Alberto Barcel Alberto Barcel (1907–1975) was an Argentine actor. He appeared in more than 60 films from 1948 to 1966. He starred in the film ''Circe'' (1964), which was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' ...

Alejandra Da Passano María Alejandra Ana Da Passano (26 July 1947 – 30 June 2014), better known as Alejandra Da Passano, was an Argentines, Argentine actress of film, Stage (theatre), stage and television. Her best known films were ''El Señor Presidente'' (19 ...

* Francisco Urondo

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* 1965 films Argentine comedy films Argentine satirical films 1960s Spanish-language films 1965 comedy films Argentine black-and-white films Films directed by Rodolfo Kuhn 1960s Argentine films Spanish-language comedy films {{1960s-comedy-film-stub

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