León Klimovsky

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia León Klimovsky 16 October 19068 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 Argentinas first film club in 1929 After participating as scriptwriter and assistant director of 1944s Se abre el abismo he filmed his first movie an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevskys The Player From this first phase it can be also highlighted the adaptations of Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo and Ernesto Sabatos The Tunnel On the 1950s Klimovsky settled in Spain where he becomes a professional director He went into spaghetti westerns and socalled exploitation films filming in Mexico Italy and Egypt Perhaps he is best remembered for his contribution to Spains 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article León Klimovsky licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia