
Fanny Navarro was a famous Argentinian actress throughout the golden age of Argentinian cinema. She was an important figure during Peronism as she dated Juan Duarte, Evita's brother. After Perón was overthrown, she was politically persecuted. It is rumored that she eventually became insane. She died in oblivion.
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When Alicia is left alone with her little son, she finds herself harassed by society. She travels to Panama, where she starts a chain of extortions from men she has first seduced.

The action takes place in Comodo Rivadavia, and reenacts a 1907 mission lead by José Fuchs, who was supposed to find water but found oil instead.

When listening to a melody, an old man recalls moments of his childhood.

A successful actress tells a journalist the story of her love for a musician who left her once she was successful.

El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.

The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.

Two sisters struggle to get out of a Buenos Aires suburb, where debts with a loan shark have kept them apart. But soon the inhabitants of the neighborhood forget their differences before the appearance of an epidemic.

This short film is the most famous Peronist propaganda piece, most likely due to the expressionist visual power of Pappier's imagery. It is based on a poem by José María Fernández Unsaín in which a couple of workers (Fanny Navarro and Pedro Maratea) compares a past of explotation and misery with the new Argentina of Peronist social justice.

Overview of the operation of the Children's City of the Eva Perón Foundation.

Pablo Urioste is a respected surgeon, but he is forced to experience a nightmarish world after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies at a nightclub. He tells his story to the police, and tells stories of how he is hooked, beaten, blackmailed, and includes some bad-trip flashbacks. Ms. Quiroga tries to help him, but there is little hope for Dr. Urioste after undergoing THE MARIHUANA STORY.
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