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Riachuelo
Riachuelo
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Luis Moglia Barth
Written by	Luis Moglia Barth; José Bustamante y Ballivián
Starring	Luis Sandrini; Maruja Pibernat; Alfredo Camiña; Margarita Solá; María Esther Gamas
Cinematography	Francis Boeniger
Music by	Edgardo Donato; Máximo Orsi
Production; company	Argentina Sono Film
Release date	4 July 1934 (Buenos Aires);
Running time	81 minutes
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish

Riachuelo (English: Brook; a popular name for the Matanza River) is a 1934 Argentine comedy film directed by Luis Moglia Barth and starring Luis Sandrini as his popular character Berretín.^[1] The cast also included Maruja Pibernat, María Esther Gamas, Alfredo Camiña, Margarita Solá, Héctor Calcaño, Froilán Varela and Juan Sarcione.^[1] It was the third film produced by Argentina Sono Film, one of the first major film studios in the country, which had inaugurated the sound period and the Golden Age of Argentine cinema the previous year with the release of ¡Tango!^[2] The film premiered on 4 July 1934 at the Renacimiento theater in Buenos Aires.^[3]

The commercial success of the film allowed the economic viability of Argentina Sono Film, which had failed with its second production Dancing in 1933.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Di Núbila, 1998. p. 86
^ España, Claudio (2000). "Formas de representación en la edad de oro". In España, Claudio (ed.). Cine argentino: industria y clasicismo, 1933-1956 (in Spanish). Vol. 1. Buenos Aires: Fondo Nacional de las Artes. pp. 22–150. ISBN 978-950-980-759-4.
^ Di Núbila, 1998. p. 400
^ Di Núbila, 1998. p. 88

Bibliography

Di Núbila, Domingo (1998). La época de oro. Historia del cine argentino I (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Jilguero. ISBN 978-987-957-865-0.