El fin de la noche

El fin de la noche
Directed byAlberto de Zavalía
Written byCarlos Aden
Hugo MacDougall
Produced byFrancisco Cárdenas
StarringLibertad Lamarque
CinematographyVicente Cosentino
Edited byOscar Carchano
Music byPaul Misraki
Production
company
Distributed byDistribuidora Panamericana
Release date
  • 1 November 1944 (1944-11-01)[1]
Running time
94 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

El fin de la noche (English: End of the Night) is a 1944 Argentine film of the classical era of Argentine cinema. It is notable for being an anti-Nazi film made in neutral Argentina during World War II and set in occupied France.[2] Shot from August to November 1943 in Cordoba Province,[3] its release was put on hold for more than a year, pending authorization by the pro-Axis military government of that time.[4] The film is also remembered in Argentina for Libertad Lamarque's performance of the tango Uno, composed by Mariano Mores and Enrique Santos Discépolo.[5]

Plot

A female Argentine[note 1] tango singer in occupied France, Lola Morel, gets romantically involved with Daniel, a Resistance member. A local Gestapo commander, Kleit, tries to convince her to infiltrate the Resistance in exchange for her little daughter's safety.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Manrupe, Raúl; Portela, María Alejandra (2001). Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995). Editorial Corregidor, p. 232. ISBN 950-05-0896-6 (in Spanish)
  2. ↑ El Fin De La Noche (1944)
  3. ↑ Kohen, Héctor R. (2000) Ruleta, películas y política. En Cine Argentino Industria y clasicismo (1933/1956). Vol I. Fondo Nacional de las Artes, p. 383, note 140. ISBN 950-9807-58-3 (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ Historia del Cine Argentino Archived 2012-03-13 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
  5. ↑ "Tangos and Legends". Archived from the original on 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2012-10-22.

Notes

  1. ↑ Described in the film as a "cantante sudamericana" (South American singer) for political reasons.


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