Director

León Klimovsky

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Directed movies: 66Directed series: 1All crew credits: 78

TMDB ID: 93079

IMDb ID: nm0459567

Known for: Directing

Born: October 17, 1906

Died: April 8, 1996

Age: 89

Place of birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1945 - 1992

Years active: 48

Average TMDB rating: 4.89

Wikidata: Q1393733

Also known as

Henry Mankiewicz • León Klimovsky Dulfán

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Director (66)Director of Photography (1)Writer (4)Screenplay (3)Editorial Consultant (1)Producer (1)Script Supervisor (1)Writers' Assistant (1)

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. León Klimovsky (16 October 1906–8 April 1996) was an Argentine film director. A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema. He pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed the first movie theater to show art movies. He also founded Argentina's first film club in 1929. After participating as scriptwriter and assistant director of 1944's Se abre el abismo he filmed his first movie, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Player. From this first phase, it can be also highlighted the adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo and Ernesto Sabato's The Tunnel. On the 1950s Klimovsky settled in Spain, where he becomes a "professional" director. He went into spaghetti westerns and so-called exploitation films, filming in Mexico, Italy and Egypt. Perhaps he is best remembered for his contribution to Spain's horror film genre, beginning with La noche de Walpurgis. León Klimovsky confessed to have always dreamt of doing great vanguard movies but ended on filming commercial ones, but without remorse, as doing cinema was a vocational mandate for him. On 1995 he won the "Honor Award" of the Spanish Film Director Association. He died in Madrid of a heart attack. He was brother to the Argentine mathematician and philosopher Gregorio Klimovsky. Description above from the Wikipedia article León Klimovsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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