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[1]
Running time
94 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

El fin de la noche (English: End of the Night) is a 1944 Argentine film. 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] the 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 tango singer in occupied France (Libertad Lamarque) gets romantically involved with a Resistance member (Juan José Miguez). A local Gestapo commander (Alberto Bello) tries to convince her to infiltrate the Resistance in exchange for her little daughter's safety.

Cast

Notes

  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 (in Spanish)
  5. ↑ "Tangos and Legends". Archived from the original on 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2012-10-22.


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