Pepe Soriano Movies

When three commercial designers hear rumors of corporate downsizing, each man positions himself to avoid being laid off. The man with the most seniority fears his age and slowly failing eyesight will make him the logical candidate to be fired. The youngest member fears he will be let go due to his lack of tenure, and he goes to the boss to complain of the older man's vision problems. Each man feels the pressure at work and at home from their concerned wives as they scramble for position to insure their continued employment. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Juan and Ana Lamaglia are a married couple living in a mid-sized town. Juan earns a good living as a businessman, spending his free time at barbecues, the racetrack, watching television or hanging out with his cronies. He also is emotionally unable to please his wife and his mistress due to his absence of any cultural appreciation or personal growth. This film was the first for director Raul de la Torre and took the Opera Prima Award at the Mar Del Plaza Film Festival. It also won awards art the Cartagena Film Festival. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

It is not widely known that Argentina, which is thought to have harbored many ex-Nazis (such as Josef Mengele), is also the home of a large and well-established population of Jews who fled the pogroms of Russia near the turn of the century and settled in the Argentine countryside. This film tells the story of those early settlers, many of them new to farm work and all of them new to the horse-riding traditions of the region's cowboys ("gauchos"). Based on the book by Alberto Gerchunoff who was one of these immigrants. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In the cosmopolitan metropolis of Buenos Aires, skullduggery is afoot when a journalist decides to investigate the apparent "accident" of a friend. The circumstances of this death are suspicious, and the journalist finds himself pulled into the underside of Argentine life as he works his way to the reason behind his friend's death. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

In this story about an arms dealer, the ostensible backdrop is a bloody gunfight between hundreds of leftists and rightists on June 20, 1973 near a bridge leading to the international airport in Buenos Aires. The spark that set off the shootings -- a full disclosure and death toll were never given -- was the return of former dictator Juan Dominguéz Perón from exile. After this moment in history is evoked by still photographs, the story switches to the distant San Martín de los Andes, far to the southwest of Buenos Aires. An arms dealer of German descent rules over his household there with an autocratic, dictatorial hand, and when a man comes, by invitation, to visit him and complete a deal for weapons (it is understood that these weapons are intended for one of the sides in the June 20th incident), the two men start an uneasy relationship. The visitor is actually more interested in the arms dealer's attractive daughter, and as the tensions build between the two men, a confrontation is sure to be the result. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Based on a true incident that happened in 1935 in the Argentine Senate, this fictionalized account of the murder of a senator avoids the main issue of the killing: those accused of complicity in the murder were acquitted by the senators of the ruling Conservative Party. This film focuses on the character and life of the murderer instead of addressing the serious political corruption of the time. The intended victim, the democratic leader Lisandro De La Torre (Pepe Soriano) attacked the government for selling out the nation's lucrative meat-packing trade to a foreign company, and when ex-police chief Valdez-Cora (Miguel Angle Solá) tried to gun De La Torre down in the parliament building, he killed another senator, Enzo Bordabehere (Arturo Bonín) by accident. The corruption and abuses of Valdez-Cora cause his own Conservative Party to throw him off the police force, at which point he becomes the bodyguard of a senator and cattle rancher (in reality, he was hired by the Minister of Agriculture as a bodyguard). The exploits of Valdez-Cora get him involved in the world of prostitution and eventually force his wife and daughter to leave him for good. His life gives ample play to scenes of sex and violence, although the lead actors rise above these lower levels of the script. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

In his retirement home, the former bartender (Pepe Soriano) at a brothel and bistro in a provincial town in Argentina in the 1930s regales his listeners with tales about the personalities there. Chief among them was the brothel's owner (Gian Maria Volonte), who seemed the master of all he surveyed, until he was smitten by the charms of a woman traveling with a tango band. As he tells these stories, they are shown onscreen. The film is much enhanced by lively tango performances by well known masters of the genre, including (Daniel Binelli). ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

This Argentine homage to Hollywood of the '40s focuses on bored Patagonian housewife, Letty (Assumpta Serna), married to older Tomas (Jorge Rivera Lopez), a doctor in an Argentina seaside community. The year is 1947, and Letty spends much time at the local cinema watching American films. Then one day she meets a handsome German, Gunther (Francois-Eric Gendron), suspected by Letty and others of being a fugitive Nazi spy. Her secrets and fantasies related to Gunther eventually backfire as both police and her husband become curious about her activities. Shown at the 1997 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi