León Klimovsky
León Klimovsky is known for The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971), Vengeance of the Zombies (1973), The Legion of No Return (1969).
Biography
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León Klimovsky (16 October 1906–8 April 1996) was an Argentine film director.
A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema. He pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed the first movie theater to show art movies. He also founded Argentina's first film club in 1929.
After participating as scriptwriter and assistant director of 1944's Se abre el abismo he filmed his first movie, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Player. From this first phase, it can be also highlighted the adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo and Ernesto Sabato's The Tunnel.
On the 1950s Klimovsky settled in Spain, where he becomes a "professional" director. He went into spaghetti westerns and so-called exploitation films, filming in Mexico, Italy and Egypt. Perhaps he is best remembered for his contribution to Spain's horror film genre, beginning with La noche de Walpurgis. León Klimovsky confessed to have always dreamt of doing great vanguard movies but ended on filming commercial ones, but without remorse, as doing cinema was a vocational mandate for him.
On 1995 he won the "Honor Award" of the Spanish Film Director Association. He died in Madrid of a heart attack. He was brother to the Argentine mathematician and philosopher Gregorio Klimovsky.
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Questions about León Klimovsky
How many León Klimovsky films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 57 films with León Klimovsky, from 1947 to 1992.
What was the first León Klimovsky film?
The first León Klimovsky film in the catalogue is The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman, from 1971.
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Known for
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5.0 Torrejón City
1962
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3.4 Mean Mother
1974
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5.4 The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
1971
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6.1 A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
1975
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6.7 Amo tu cama rica
1992
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5.5 A Few Dollars for Django
1966
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7.7 El jugador
1947
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6.8 The Devil's Possessed
1974
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6.0 Trauma
1978
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4.4 Vengeance of the Zombies
1973
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4.8 The Legion of No Return
1969
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4.9 The People Who Own the Dark
1976
Trivia
- Also works as
- film director · screenwriter · film producer · director
- Siblings
- Gregorio Klimovsky
Trivia from Wikidata, licensed CC0.
Full filmography
58 films — 57 in the catalogue
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6.7
Amo tu cama rica
1992 · Tornatto
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4.4 El robobo de la jojoya
1991
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4.0 The Brother from Space
1988 · Dr. Craig
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5.3 The Sea Serpent
1985 · Dr. Moore
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6.3 Dos mejor que uno
1984 · Librero
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4.3 The Most Beautiful Night
1984
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6.6 Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
1982
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5.2 Maravillas
1981 · Santos
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5.5 El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
1979 · Chochoffsky
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7.0 Amor casi... libre
1976 · Representante de Foscafé (uncredited)
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7.0 I Saw Her First
1974 · Faustino
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9.0 S.O.S., abuelita
1959
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3.4
Mean Mother
1974
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5.0
Torrejón City
1962
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4.5 ¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
1977
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4.7 The Kidnapping
1976
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4.9
The People Who Own the Dark
1976
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5.5 Death of a Hoodlum
1975
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5.1 The Night of the Walking Dead
1975
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6.1
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
1975
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4.7 I Hate My Body
1974
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4.4
Vengeance of the Zombies
1973
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5.9 Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf
1972
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6.5 La casa de las Chivas
1972
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7.0 El hombre que vino del odio
1972
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6.0 Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest
1971
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10.0 Los hombres las prefieren viudas
1970
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5.8 Quinto: Fighting Proud
1969
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6.0 A Bullet for Rommel
1969
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4.8 Seven Into Hell
1968
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6.0 Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote
1966
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7.0 Her and Fear
1964
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4.8 Aquella joven de blanco
1964
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8.0 School of Seductresses
1962
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7.0 Horizontes de luz
1962
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6.5 La paz empieza nunca
1960
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9.5 Un tipo de sangre
1960
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6.2 El hombre que perdió el tren
1960
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9.0 Un bruto para Patricia
1960
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9.0 Leap to Fame
1959
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9.0 Llegaron los franceses
1959
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7.0 Desert Warrior
1957
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6.2 3 citas con el destino
1954
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5.4 Reverend's Colt
1970
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4.7 Death Knows No Time
1968
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7.0 The Miller's Saucy Wife
1955
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6.5 The Shack
1979
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6.0
Trauma
1978
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4.4 The Vampires' Night Orgy
1973
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5.2 Challenge of McKenna
1970
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4.8
The Legion of No Return
1969
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5.5 Rattler Kid
1967
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9.0 Todos eran culpables
1962
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5.4
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
1971
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6.8
The Devil's Possessed
1974
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5.5
A Few Dollars for Django
1966
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5.3 The Count of Monte Cristo
1953
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7.7
El jugador
1947
People data: TMDb.
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