Cinema

The first film exhibition in Argentina is in 18 July in 1896 in The Odeon theatre.
During the silent film period over 200 movies were shot, including dramas, thrillers, comedies and movies on countryside subjects.
The main filmmakers of the time were Moglia Barth, Francisco Mugica, Manuel Romero, Daniel Tinayre, Luis Saslavvsky, de Savalia, and Luis Cèsar Amadori with writers such as Mario Soffici and Leopoldo Torres Ríos.
Argentina film industrial really advanced with sound films in 1933. The most popular being the film Tango.
Between 1973 and 1975, with democratic government and a considerably stable economy, Argentine cinema reached great reviews and box-office success, and even some films were nominated for the Oscar.
La Historia Oficial written by Luis Puenzo and Aída Bortnik and directed by Luis Puenzo was awarded an Oscar Academy Award as the Best Foreign Film in 1985. The film starred by Norma Aleandro and Héctor Alterio is about a couple in Buenos Aires with an adopted child who is a victim of the disappearances that occurred during Argentina’s Dirty war in the 1970s.

The 1989 Argentine economic crisis, with flourishing inflation, forced producer - directors to depend on state subsidies or foreign co-productions.
In the 1990s, Marcelo Piñeyro began his career as a director presenting Tango Feroz.. All his subsequent films achieved excellent results in ticketing. Other directors also emerged, especially young people, that despite the fierce crisis that was installed at the beginning of the twenty - first century.
They have rescued the international prestige of the Argentine cinema, which today is one of the most internationally respected and rewarded.