Gardel: el hombre y el mito

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Recordando al Zorzal

January 1965 •Spanish

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

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.

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.

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.

La vida de Carlos Gardel

May 1939 •Spanish

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

Una Vida es el Tango

September 2023 •Spanish

A Morte de Carlos Gardel

September 2011 •Portuguese

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

Añoranzas

November 1930 •Spanish

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

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.

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.

The Eastern Song Thrush

April 2025 •Spanish

Joel, a young man of Chinese origin, competes in a singing contest in his neighborhood.

Espérame

February 1933 •Spanish

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

Bar de Mala Muerte

October 1993 •Spanish