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Muñequitas porteñas (1931)

Muñequitas porteñas poster
Directed by
José A. Ferreyra
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
1h 13m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

The film follows a group of young women in Buenos Aires. It shows their lives and relationships in a gentle comic drama.

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What happens

Muñequitas porteñas (also known as Muñequita porteña) is a 1931 Argentine film directed by José A. Ferreyra. A pioneering sound film, it is widely considered to be the first Argentine feature film with spoken dialogue, using the sound-on-disc Vitaphone system. Although the film has been preserved and restored, the sound discs were lost, leaving it silent. Two years after the release of Muñequitas porteñas, the premiere of the country's first optical sound films ushered the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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