Alejandro Doria

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Alejandro Doria
Born(1936-11-01)1 November 1936
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died17 June 2009(2009-06-17) (aged 72)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter
Years active1965-2006

Alejandro Doria (November 1, 1936 – June 17, 2009) was a noted

Argentine cinema
and television director.

Life and work

Born in Buenos Aires in 1936, he first worked for Argentine television in 1965 as a writer for a local variety show, Show rambler.

He first directed professionally for Adorable Professor Aldao, a 1968 romantic comedy series. Doria's contract to direct the 1969 season of a top-rated sitcom, Nuestra galleguita (Our Galician Girl), secured his career in Argentine /television, and he directed numerous series during the early 1970s and was a guest producer several times for Alta Comedia, a comedy showcase.[1]

Doria first directed for the cinema in 1974. The political

Los miedos (Fears), in 1980, and in 1982, directed a film adaptation of Silvina Bullrich's best-selling Los Pasajeros del jardín (Wanderers in the Garden) - Bullrich's nostalgic, autobiographical look at her happy and all-too-brief second marriage.[4]

The

Darse cuenta (Realization), was a critical and commercial success in 1984.[5]

Doria and Langsner were then reunited for the making of

cult classic, though another director's sequel written by Langsner and released in 2009 was unsuccessful.[6]

Doria and Langsner then turned to recent history in Argentina with Sofia. The 1987 tragedy dealt with a chance encounter and a May–December love affair amid the oppressive

family comedy genre in 1990 with Cien veces no debo (I Don't Owe 100 Times Over) - a comedy of errors revolving around bad news for a neurotic, middle-class family.[4] Doria then returned to television, directing a number of soap operas and a segment in an episodic homage to the victims of the 1994 AMIA bombing
(the worst terrorist attack in Argentine history).

His reputation as a leading filmmaker in Argentine cinema was restored with the 2006 release of

bio-pic on the life of Father Mario Pantaleo, an Argentine priest who incurred the Vatican's wrath following reports he possessed healing hands.[4] The drama earned numerous prizes in Argentina and in prestigious international film festivals, notably the Huelva Latin American Film Festival and Cartagena Film Festival.[3] Doria more recently directed Doce horas (12 Hours) and Tuya (Yours), titles scheduled for release in 2010.[7] Pneumonia cost the filmmaker his life on June 17, 2009, however, at age 72.[8]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "Biografía de Alejandro Doria - Películas". peliculas.itematika.com.
  2. ^ "ESPERANDO LA CARROZA - Entrevista a Alejandro Doria - Video Dailymotion". Dailymotion. 13 November 2007.
  3. ^ a b "Alejandro Doria". IMDb.
  4. ^ a b c "Fandango - Page Not Found - Static". www.fandango.com. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  5. ^ Cine Nacional: Darse cuenta (in Spanish)
  6. ^ Cine Nacional: Esperando la carroza (in Spanish)
  7. ^ CineNacional. "Alejandro Doria - Filmografía, Biografía, Fotos - cinenacional.com". www.cinenacional.com.
  8. ^ "Clarín: Murió el cineasta Alejandro Doria" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2009-06-18.

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