Juan Moreira (1973 film)

Juan Moreira
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLeonardo Favio
Screenplay byLeonardo Favio
Jorge Zuhair Jury
Based onJuan Moreira
by Eduardo Gutiérrez
Produced byLeonardo Favio
Tito Hurovich
StarringRodolfo Bebán
Jorge Villalba
Pablo Cumo
Osvaldo De la Vega
Augusto Kretschmar
Alba Múgica
CinematographyJuan Carlos Desanzo
Edited byAntonio Ripoll
Music byPocho Leyes
Luis María Serra
Production
company
Centauro Films
Release date
  • 1973 (1973)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

Juan Moreira is a 1973 Argentine dramatic historical film directed by Leonardo Favio and starring Rodolfo Bebán. It is based on the homonymous novel by Eduardo Gutiérrez, which narrates the life of the famous Argentine outlaw, gaucho and folk hero Juan Moreira.

In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 9th position.[1] In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 11th position.[2]

  1. ^ "Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino". La Mirada Cautiva (3). Buenos Aires: Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken: 6–14. 2000. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022 – via Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 on Google Drive.
  2. ^ "Top 100" (in Spanish). Encuesta de cine argentino 2022. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.