School of Mermaids and Sharks

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Escuela de sirenas y tiburones
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Directed by Enrique Carreras
Written by Julio Porter
Starring Alfredo Barbieri
Amelita Vargas
Esteban Serrador
Leonor Rinaldi
Cinematography Roque Funes
Edited by José Gallego
Music by Víctor Schlichter
Production
company
Distributed byProductora General Belgrano
Release date
  • August 4, 1955 (1955-08-04)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryArgentina
Language Spanish

School of Mermaids and Sharks (Escuela de sirenas y tiburones) is a 1955 Argentine film directed by Enrique Carreras and starring Amelia Vargas, Alfredo Barbieri, Esteban Serrador and Leonor Rinaldi. [1] [2] The film was released on 4 August 1955. [3] Enrique Carreras remade the film in 1982 under the title Los fierecillos indomables , starring Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel in the lead roles.

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Plot

Misunderstandings, songs and intrigues in a co-ed boarding school.

Cast

Reception

La Razón commented: "The classic and conventional entanglement between students and teachers that is used every time the subject of a school is comically dealt with on the screen." Noticias Gráficas said: "Everything that is reflected on the screen is at the margin of the least demanding common sense." Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela in their book Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930–1995) wrote (translated from Spanish): "Blockbuster and simplistic, to take advantage of the moment of greatest popularity of the leading couple. The scene of the football match is copied from an identical scene in Avivato ". [4]

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