
León Klimovsky
- Date of Birth: 1906-10-17
- Date of Death: 1996-04-08
- Place of Birth: 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 cinem... 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.

Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
Comedy • 1982 September

Amo tu cama rica
Comedy, Romance • 1992 January

Dos mejor que uno
Comedy • 1984 October

El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
Comedy • 1979 June

Maravillas
Drama • 1981 February

The Sea Serpent
Science Fiction, Horror • 1985 April

I Saw Her First
Comedy, Drama, Romance • 1974 June

Amor casi... libre
Comedy • 1976 May

The Most Beautiful Night
Drama, Comedy • 1984 September

El robobo de la jojoya
Comedy • 1991 December