Gardel: el hombre y el mito

Carlos Gardel, Historia de un Ídolo

April 1964 •Spanish

Newsreels, songs and films by Gardel, real scenes with events and historical figures from Argentina and the world, images of the accident that took his life in Medellín and the funeral in Buenos Aires.

Gracias y Hasta Siempre ¡Gardel Está Vivo!

Invalid date •Spanish

A documentary about Medellín's historic and continued connection to tango and its most iconic figure.

El padre de Gardel

June 2013 •Spanish

For thirty years, Carlos Escayola was the main politician of the small town of Tacuarembó, Uruguay. This farmer was known both for his political and cultural achievements (including the construction of a theater), and for the reputation of seducer, which earned him one of the greatest family polemics in the history of the region.

As a gust of wind

January 2023 •Spanish

In a decadent flea market there are rumors of a legend that inhabits the place. However, he is confined to his post until Carlos Gardel appears to him and gives him a mission in order to restore the shine of the Market.

Recordando al Zorzal

January 1965 •Spanish

The life, work and tragic disappearance of Carlos Gardel, the Creole thrush.

Gardeliana

October 2020 •Spanish

A group of Carlos Gardel fans gathers every year at the Chacarita Cemetery to commemorate the anniversary of his death. Gardeliana portrays the ritual of a national hero, a day of saddened faces that coexist between the marvelous and the ghostly.

A Morte de Carlos Gardel

September 2011 •Portuguese

Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.

La Guitarra de Gardel

December 1949 •Spanish

A young man is dedicated to singing, but only for his friends, and his godfather wants him to do it professionally.

Like a Sign

November 2014 •Spanish

Inspired by the affair between Carlos Gardel and Ivonne Printemps, this story tells the quest of that unfinished love in today's Buenos Aires.

La vida de Carlos Gardel

May 1939 •Spanish

The life, hardships, love affairs, triumphs and failures of the world-renowned tango singer Carlos Gardel.

Así cantaba Carlos Gardel

January 1935 •Spanish

A film that brings together ten of the fifteen shorts that Carlos Gardel filmed in 1930 under the direction of Eduardo Morera, in the film studios of the pioneer Federico Valle.

The Day Maradona Met Gardel

October 1996 •Spanish

Two guys as different as a watchmaker and a television editor have to free Carlos Gardel's soul from a strange pact with the devil, who has it trapped. To break the spell, these fans of El Morocho del Abasto, and improvised exorcists, need to find a mythical figure of such popular force as Gardel: the great Diego Maradona.

Bar de Mala Muerte

October 1993 •Spanish

Una Vida es el Tango

September 2023 •Spanish

El último payador

February 1950 •Spanish

The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.

Se llamaba Carlos Gardel

April 1949 •Spanish

El morocho del Abasto (La vida de Carlos Gardel)

March 1950 •Spanish

The life of the famous tango singer Carlos Gardel, his emergence, his mother, his loves, his friends etc.

Espérame

February 1933 •Spanish

A singer is in love with a young woman who is being extorted by a rich rancher.

Añoranzas

November 1930 •Spanish

Carlos Gardel and guitars performing "Añoranzas", vals written and composed by José María Aguilar.

The Endless Summer

June 1966 •English

Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they travel the world during California’s winter (which, back in 1965 was off-season for surfing) in search of the perfect wave and ultimately, an endless summer.