
1970
Sonrisas de Chile
After arriving on a ship in Valparaíso, Bohr meets Euríspides Chamorro, with whom he begins a trip through Chile, full of sketches, most of them led by the comedy duo Los Capo- rales.
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Filmmaker
Born
1901-09-03 · 92 yrs
Died
1994-05-29
From
Bonn, Germany
Known for
Directing
Born in Germany on November 3, 1901 under the name of Joseph Bohr Elzer, the young José Bohr arrived with his family to colonize southern Chile in 1904. It was in the city of Punta Arenas where he began his precocious cinematographic and musical career, composing songs including the hymn "Punta Arenas", playing the piano for silent films and making his first film works before he was in his twenties. After emigrating to Santiago in 1921, he went to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, hired by the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make a documentary. Later he settled in Buenos Aires, where he composed a good part of the 200 songs that swelled the popular songbook of the time, such as "Y tenía un lunar", "Cascabelito" and "Pero hay una melena", as well as advertising tangos for music houses.…

1958
Elderly suburban man is imprisoned over a misunderstanding about some garden utensils.
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1940
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1939
A plastic surgeon goes mad when he discovers that his wife have an affair. He fakes her death and disfigure her and locks her in the cellar.
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