Luis Brandoni
Birthday: Born in 1940-04-18 in Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Deathday: Alive
Brandoni was born in Dock Sud, a port community east of Avellaneda. He debuted on the stage in 1962, television in 1963, and on film in 1966. He joined the National Comedy Theater in 1964 under the direction of Luisa Vehil. Politically active in the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), he served as cultural policy adviser for President Raúl Alfonsín (1983-89), and was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1993, where he served until 2001. He was an unsuccessful Argentine Senate candidate for the UCR in 2005, and for Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province, with nominee Ricardo Alfonsín, in 2007. He was married to actress Marta Bianchi, and in 2007 married Monica Lopez. An actor with extensive film, television and theatre credits, he portrayed leading roles in acclaimed pictures such as La tregua (1974), Juan que reía (1976), Darse cuenta (1984), Esperando la carroza (1985), Made in Argentina (1986), Cien veces no debo (1990), Convivencia (1993), Una sombra ya pronto serás (1994), De mi barrio con amor (1995), and Los pasos perdidos (2001). His career remained strong during 2011: among his notable theatre credits was his portrayal of former President Arturo Illia; and his notable television credits included a starring role in the Telefé; sitcom, El Hombre de tu vida. He earned three Martín Fierro Awards (1970, 1990, and 1993); and an Argentine Film Critics Association Silver Condor awards for Best Actor for his roles in Made in Argentina and Convivencia. Brandoni also served in numerous actors' guilds, including the International Federation of Actors (IFA) as its Vice President between 1974 and 2004.
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Señores papis
Character: Rafael Rodríguez Merlo
The story tells the experiences of four modern parents Favio Carbonetti (Luciano Castro), Ignacio Moreno (Joaquín Furriel), Franco Bertossi (Luciano Cáceres) and Mauro de Leone (Peto Menahem) and attractive friends who become friends by sharing daily talks at the door of your children's Kindergarten....
Derecho Viejo
Character: Marcelo Tracy
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Alta comedia
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Un gallo para Esculapio
Character: Chelo Esculapio
A young working-class man comes from Misiones (an Argentinian province) to Buenos Aires, with a fighting rooster, looking for his brother, and gets involved with low life characters, who introduce him to a world of crime....
El hombre de tu vida
Character: Padre Francisco
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Nada
Character: Manuel
An iconic bon vivant, who barely has enough resources to maintain his affluent lifestyle, hires a young woman from Paraguay to replace the recently deceased maid who took care of him for more than 40 years....
Cain y Abel
Character: Eugenio Vedia
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El encargado
Character: Polaco
Eliseo is the superintendent of an upscale building. On the surface, is cordial and docile in his role, but underneath Eliseo believes himself the omnipotent figure of the community — meddling in the affairs of residents and pulling strings as he sees fit. Eliseo's only concern is protecting his job, which comes under threat by a proposed pool project....
Tiempo final
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Durmiendo con mi jefe
Character: Enzo Tampone
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Una familia especial como la tuya
Character: Cayetano Molina
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Movie Credits
Me enamoré sin darme cuenta
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Two men love the same woman and plan ways to have her...
Alone
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A separated woman faces her future and revises her goals....
Franklin, historia de un billete
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Correa is a retired boxer who spent much of his life running "errands" for Bernal, a violent mobster, who was also his former manager. A mistaken murder and his loyalty led to a few years in prison. Upon leaving him, he decides to turn his life upside down with Rosa, a prostitute who is the victim of a trafficking network commanded by Bernal and the police....
Waiting for the Hearse 2: The Party is Over
Character: Antonio Musicardi
Nora and Antonio organize a prestigious celebration and invite their humble relatives....
Waiting for the Hearse
Character: Antonio
Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?...
Mr. President
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What Your Eyes Don't See
Character: Raúl
A murder in a house in Tigre triggers an investigation in the sphere of a political weekly. Crimes follow one another and the police can't solve the puzzle. A magazine journalist will try to get to the truth without knowing that more than one surprise awaits her....
La gran ruta
Character: Tano
A group of boys decides to rob a hotel accommodation for seeking advice which an old offender. In parallel, we see different couples as they arrive at the same hotel and that there be at the time of the assault....
Living Together
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Two single men in their late forties spend regular weekends in a semi-derelict house on the Paraná river delta near Buenos Aires. However, when a girl asks for shelter from a storm, both men are forced to re-evaluate their lives and their friendship....
Darse cuenta
Character: Carlos Ventura
The relationship between a doctor and a depressed young patient in a public hospital....
The Truce
Character: Esteban
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future....
El verso
Character: Juan
Between farce and grotesque, John, who has lost his job, in a collective versea values of a knife sharpener, can not against debts contracted or can with his family, wife and two kids. One day, the woman left, runs out of credit and Juan is left with only his dream of being a radio announcer....
Juan que reía
Character: Juan Libonatti
Juan Libonatti, a seller of fine wines, like up in the company where he works. His car, a brand new Citroen, will be an essential tool to sell more wine in less time and be able to move up. But one day it is stolen and he had not paid the insurance fee. That will be the beginning of a tragedy that will lead to self-destruction....
La Suerte en tus Manos
Character: Dr. Weiss
A professional poker player seeks out an old flame after his marriage fizzles....
Cien veces no debo
Character: Father
A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family....
A Shadow You Soon Will Be
Character: Barrante
This film follows the exploits of a middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the early '80s following the end of Argentina's long military dictatorship and is based on a 1990 novel by Osvaldo Soriano. Only recently returned from European exile, with no family and friends to welcome him home, "the engineer" travels the lonely southern Pampas of Argentina on the way to a job. He is periodically joined by other strange wanderers such as Nadia, the gun slinging psychic, Lem, a s...
Humo bajo el agua
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A look at love and friendship in a historic moment for Argentina after the recovery of democracy. It tells the story of Julián, a young ranch hand who is reunited with Patricio, the son of his boss and his childhood friend. The passage of time and being face to face in the countryside where they were born, will make them realize that their childhood affection has become an indomitable feeling....
Felicitas
Character: Martin de Álzaga
Buenos Aires at the outskirts of XIX century. A society rigid in patriarchal rules. A war between brothers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Two young and very much in love youngsters, fight for their right to be together. Obeyance and fear sets them apart along more than ten years. When they are finally reunited, will they be able to overcome the pain and tragedy that haunts them?...
Seré cualquier cosa, pero te quiero
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Democracy
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1983: After more than seven years of terror, the Argentineans recover the democracy. The reconstruction of a climate of time and an event that marked a point of break not only in the policy but in the culture and the arts of Argentina...
Rebellion in Patagonia
Character: Antonio Soto
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order....
San Pugliese
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Osvaldo Pugliese transcended the world, created his own style in tango and became a saint against bad luck for musicians. In the film, his daughter, granddaughter, musicians and fans retrace his steps to unveil this mystery....
Un tal Mario
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In the 70s, Mario Mactas, a prominent journalist for the magazine Satiricón, went into exile in Barcelona due to political repression in Argentina. His return introduced a unique vision of current affairs, challenging conventions still in force in the digital age....
The Damned Rib
Character: Juan
Four women decide to go together to have fun at a men's strip show. On the trip, the taxi driver pays attention to their conversation where each one tells the others her ideal of a man. Since then, he decides to pass himself off as the ideal man....
Hermanos, una historia de sangre
Character: Narrator
Documentary that follows filmmaker Mariano Cohn's struggle to find the truth behind the mysterious death of his brother in 2015....
Tokio
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The story of two strangers who decide to overcome distance and loneliness, turning a casual meeting into an opportunity for a new beginning....
There are some guys down
Character: Julio
In times of dictatorship Argentina (1977), a young journalist suffers attacks of paranoia when he discovers suspicious persons , which could be paramilitaries in front of his building. Backdrop the last matches of World Cup 1978 Argentina live....
Made in Argentina
Character: Osvaldo
Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York in order to improve their economic situation, but his wife is opposed to that idea....
Acto de posesión
Character: Enrique
Raquel's not able to have children, so she and her boyfriend manipulate another young woman into bearing his child....
People in Buenos Aires
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The romance of two migrants in Buenos Aires intercut with documentary footage of early '70s Argentina....
A Day in Paradise
Character: Director Comercial
A cartoonist and painter who can not stand out and make a living, among other things, as a photographer of news magazines and a beautiful young woman who comes to Buenos Aires from inside the country to try to make it as a model and actress, living a love as passionate as fraught with disagreements....
My Masterpiece
Character: Renzo
Arturo, the successful owner of an art gallery, and Renzo, a talented but decadent painter, are old friends who cannot stop bickering. One day, Arturo comes up with a solution to all their problems, but the plan they concoct turns out to be crazier and riskier than they originally expected....
The Money
Character: Young Clerk
Stories whose common denominator is the lack of money: a young man who wants to capture a ticket, a boy-scout who dreams of singing the lottery jackpot, a frustrated self-robbery and a playboy who marries the daughter of a butcher....
Tute Cabrero
Character: Sergio Bruni
Three colleagues must decide which one of them will be fired when the company they work for starts a downsizing process....
Paño verde
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Set in Buenos Aires in the 1940s, it showed the formation, rise and fall of a criminal gang....
4x4
Character: Amadeo
Buenos Aires, Argentina. A luxurious van is parked on the sidewalk. A man enters with the purpose of stealing whatever he can find, but when he wants to leave, he cannot. The doors do not open, the control panel does not respond: the van has become an armored box and he is trapped like a mouse....
The Weasel's Tale
Character: Pedro De Córdova
A group of old actors and filmmakers tries to resist the efforts of a young couple to kick them out of their mansion....
Heroic Losers
Character: Antonio Fontana
In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the corralito is implemented in the country and they suffer a fraud, their hopes disappear. Now, they will unite to recover the lost money and give the blow of their lives to their greatest enemy....
La cigarra está que arde
Character: Joven en automóvil
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Autocine mon amour
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A series of crazy sequences take place at a late-night drive-in movie theater....
You Only Live Once
Character: Mendi
Leo is the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. After taping a murder and keeping the evidence he runs away to stay alive and, in order to survive, he has to cover up himself. Under a new identity he will become an orthodox Hasidic Jew. A french ruthless killer, Duges and his associates López and Harken will hunt Leo. Their nonstop chase has only one exhilarating speed: all- out. Time is running out and his enemies are getting closer. Now Leo a ragtag bunch of misfits will face the bi...
El sueño de los héroes
Character: El Mudo
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Maternidad sin hombres
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The story of several women who reach motherhood in difficult conditions....
Turismo de carretera
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A young mechanic ventures into motorcycle racing, but then decides to compete in motorsport disciplines....
La fidelidad
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argentina movie...
The Retirement
Character: Rodolfo
Rodolfo (Luis Brandoni) is a retired doctor. Since he was widowed a few years ago, he lives alone in his house. For an unexpected event, his daughter Laura (Nancy Dupláa) with whom he barely speaks, needs to move with him for a few days. The coexistence will bring old discussions to the table, wounds that did not heal and the opportunity for them to connect again....
La furia
Character: Dr. Raúl Lombardi
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It's Not You, It's Me
Character: Padre de María
Thirty-year-old Javier is a surgeon and in his free time works as a disc jockey. He decides to marry and move to the United States with his girlfriend María. They make all their plans; they wed, and then María is the first to move and make contacts in their new home, while Javier packs up in Argentina and prepares to start his new life in the States. While he is on the way to the airport, he receives a call from María telling him that she is confused and has been seeing someone else....
Karakol
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José María y María José (Una pareja de hoy)
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El mundo contra mí
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Los pasos perdidos
Character: Ernesto Erigaray
An Argentinean family living in Spain has their lives rocked when a famous author from their home country claims that their daughter is actually his granddaughter who was lost during a war....
De mi barrio con amor
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Carroceros
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A documentary about the fans of "Waiting for the Carriage", the Argentine film classic directed by Alejandro Doria, and which investigates the obvious and hidden reasons for this phenomenon....
Basuras humanas
Character: Motoquero
An adventuress causes two friends to confront each other, fakes the death of one and kills the wife of the other....
We Are the Best
Character: Jaime
A group of porteños attend the grand final between Manchester and Estudiantes....
Escala musical
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An entrepreneur encourages New Wave youth to get their own radio show on the air. Tour of great musical successes of the 60s, with the participation of Johnny Tedesco, Los Shakers, Los Gatos Salvajes and Yaco Monti....
Aráoz y la verdad
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