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Filmmaker · Argentina

Mario Soffici

Died in 1977

Mario Soffici was born in Florence on 14 May 1900 and arrived in Argentina at the age of nine. Having come to performance through the circus and the theatre, he met José Agustín Ferreyra, a director of silent films, in 1929 and acted in his films, according to Karush. He directed his first film in 1935 and made about forty until 1962. He headed the National Film Institute in 1974 and 1975, according to the Three Continents Festival, and died in Buenos Aires on 10 May 1977.

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