Gardel: el hombre y el mito

Newsreels, songs and films by Gardel, real scenes with events and historical figures from Argentina and the world, images of the accident that took his life in Medellín and the funeral in Buenos Aires.

A documentary about Medellín's historic and continued connection to tango and its most iconic figure.

The life, work and tragic disappearance of Carlos Gardel, the Creole thrush.

For thirty years, Carlos Escayola was the main politician of the small town of Tacuarembó, Uruguay. This farmer was known both for his political and cultural achievements (including the construction of a theater), and for the reputation of seducer, which earned him one of the greatest family polemics in the history of the region.

In a decadent flea market there are rumors of a legend that inhabits the place. However, he is confined to his post until Carlos Gardel appears to him and gives him a mission in order to restore the shine of the Market.

A group of Carlos Gardel fans gathers every year at the Chacarita Cemetery to commemorate the anniversary of his death. Gardeliana portrays the ritual of a national hero, a day of saddened faces that coexist between the marvelous and the ghostly.

The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.

A young man is dedicated to singing, but only for his friends, and his godfather wants him to do it professionally.

Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.

The life, hardships, love affairs, triumphs and failures of the world-renowned tango singer Carlos Gardel.