Lautaro Murúa
Lautaro Murua ( born December 29, 1925 in Tacna, Chile, † December 3, 1995 in Madrid, Spain ) was an Argentine actor, film director and screenwriter.
- 2.1 as a director
- 2.2 as an actor
- 2.3 screenplays
Life
Beginnings as an actor
Although was born in Chile Lautaro Murua especially with films of Argentine cinema known and famous. His film debut was the then 32 -year-old in The House of the Angel to the side of Elsa Daniel. The film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson was shown at the International Film Festival in Cannes in 1957 and made his actors famous overnight. Murua soon became one of the most sought-after performer of the 1950s. With Leopold Torre Nilsson, the actor collaborated several more times in the following years. So he stood, for example, 1958 in El secuestrador for him on camera and in 1967 Traitors of San Angel.
Directing
In 1960 Lautrao Murua his directorial debut with the film Shunko. It is an adaptation of the novel by Jorge W. Ábalos that was processed by Augusto Roa Bastos to a screenplay. The film about a teacher who was trying to build a school in the poorer neighborhoods of Santiago del Estero highly praised by the critics. UNESCO is one of the work to the "most important Argentine films of the last 100 years."
For his second film Alias Gardelito Murua again worked with Augusto Roa Bastos the author. This co-authored with Bernardo Kordon the screenplay based on the memories of cordon. The film, which shows the less beautiful side of the so-called " city of dreams " Buenos Aires was in 1968 awarded the most important Argentine Film Award, the Premios Cóndor de Plata. Lautaro Murua is one of the representatives of the "New Argentine Cinema", a style similar to the film noir and the Nouvelle Vague that developed in the 1950s and 1960s. His films are mostly of the Argentine middle or lower class and the struggle for survival during the Civil War.
Last years and death
Lautaro Murúas last film was an adaptation of Osvaldo Soriano's novel Cuarteles de invierno. He directed the story of an aging boxer and a tango singer during the military dictatorship in Argentina with Enrique Almada, Gogó Andreu and Patricio Contreras in the lead roles. Then Lataro Murua only appeared as an actor in appearance. In his nearly 40 year career of the actor had participated in more than 60 films. He died in 1995 at the age of 69 years in a hospital in Madrid from lung cancer.