Mario Gallo
He directed what is nowadays considered the country's first fiction feature movie, El fusilamiento de Dorrego, now lost. Mario Gallo was born in Barletta, Apulia, southern Italy, Gallo arrived in Argentina in 1905 and began directing in 1909 El fusilamiento de Dorrego, which he presented a year later. Argentine cinema had so far consisted of shorts depicting parts of Buenos Aires and even a documentary by Eugène Py, in 1900, but Gallo's film was the first to be a feature work of fiction.
Mario Gallo
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- Born
- 1878 · Barletta.
- Died
- 1945 · Buenos Aires.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- film director · actor · film producer · screenwriter
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He directed what is nowadays considered the country's first fiction feature movie, El fusilamiento de Dorrego, now lost. Mario Gallo was born in Barletta, Apulia, southern Italy, Gallo arrived in Argentina in 1905 and began directing in 1909 El fusilamiento de Dorrego, which he presented a year later. Argentine cinema had so far consisted of shorts depicting parts of Buenos Aires and even a documentary by Eugène Py, in 1900, but Gallo's film was the first to be a feature work of fiction.
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In later years, Gallo claimed to have filmed other films first, all equally lost and of which remained no evidence. Gallo's films consisted of short glimpses of reenacted Argentine history - historical events, myths and battles. He died in Buenos Aires on October 2, 1945.
• En Buena Ley (1919) • En un Día de Gloria (1918) • Juan Moreira (1913) • Tierra baja (1912) • Batalla de Maipú (1912) • La Batalla de San Lorenzo (1912) • La Revolución de Mayo (1910) • La creación del himno (1910) • Güemes y sus gauchos (1910) • Muerte civil (1910) • Camila O'Gorman (1909) • El fusilamiento de Dorrego (1908)
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Mario Gallo died at Buenos Aires.
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