The Voice of My City

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La Voz de mi ciudad
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Directed by Tulio Demicheli
Written by Tulio Demicheli
Produced by Eduardo Bedoya
Cinematography Francis Boeniger
Edited by Ricardo Rodríguez Nistal, Atilio Rinaldi
Music by Mariano Mores
Distributed by Artistas Argentinos Asociados
Release date
  • 1953 (1953)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryArgentina
Language Spanish

The Voice of My City (Spanish : La Voz de mi ciudad) is a 1953 Argentine musical comedy film of the classical era of Argentine cinema, directed and written by Tulio Demicheli and starring Mariano Mores and Diana Maggi. [1]

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Plot

Roberto Moran (Mariano Mores) has just arrived in Buenos Aires from the provinces to work in a foundry. He can play the bandoneón by ear but wants to have proper training in music at a conservatory run by a frustrated old musician, Don Matias (Ricardo Galache). The old man first rejects both Roberto and his instrument, but after hearing him play, he changes his mind and takes him on, though forbidding him to play popular music, which he despises.

Roberto becomes a great classical pianist, but as he acquires proficiency, he secretly composes tangos too. One of the best sequences shows him informally playing the Argentine "Taquito Militar" accompanied by the other students playing their classical instruments (violin, clarinet, harp).

Roberto wins a scholarship to go to Europe to further his success as a pianist but he turns it down, preferring to compose "music that reveals the soul of the city". "The day will come," he tells the conductor Aquiles Baldi (Orestes Soriani), "when your great orchestra will play this kind of music."

A conflict arises with the arrival of factory owner, Francisco Romani (Santiago Gómez Cou), a calculating authoritarian who admires the United States. Roberto and Romani are both interested in Isabel (Diana Maggi), the conservatory director's daughter, who is torn between staying with the infatuated young musician who loves her or opting for the affluence of his more mature opponent. At the end of the film the roles are reversed: while Roberto achieves both popular success and the support of the "cult", showing his old master he can indeed express the "voice of the city", the entrepreneur is finally revealed to be a worthy suitor, full of feeling, who can succeed in winning the heart of the young woman.

Cast

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References

  1. ↑ "La voz de mi ciudad" (in Spanish). Cinenacional.com . Retrieved 28 March 2015.
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