El Cura Lorenzo

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El Cura Lorenzo
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Directed by Augusto Cesar Vatteone
Written byOsvaldo Falabella, Nora Celso, Francisco Guerreño, Néstor L. Castro
Starring Ángel Magaña, Tito Alonso, Nelly Meden
CinematographyBob Roberts
Music byJulian Baptist
Production
company
Horizons Productions
Release date
  • 1954 (1954)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryArgentina
Language Spanish

El Cura Lorenzo ("The Priest Lorenzo") is a 1954 Argentine biographical film of the classical era of Argentine cinema, about the life of the Argentine Catholic priest Lorenzo Massa who lived from 1882 to 1949. [1] [2]

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References

  1. Rosales, Luis (2013). Francis: a Pope For Our Time. Olivera, Daniel. Boca Raton, Florida: Humanix Books. p. 22. ISBN   9781630060053. OCLC   946626186.
  2. El cura Lorenzo (1954) (in Spanish), retrieved 2019-08-11