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León Klimovsky

León Klimovsky

Directing
17 Oct 1906
08 Apr 1996
Buenos Aires, Argentina

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...

Also Known As

Henry Mankiewicz, León Klimovsky Dulfán

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