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Alberto De Zavalia
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Alberto De Zavalia (4 May 1911-1988 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine film director and film producer.
De Zavalia was born in Buenos Aires to a middle-class, well-off family. He completed law school but never worked as a lawyer, instead dedicating himself to movie-making, an industry that was then thriving. In 1935, he co-founded with Luis Saslavsky the producer SIFAL, which disbanded that very same year, but each of its founders managed to debut as filmmakers: De Zavalia directed Escala en la ciudad, which he also wrote, while Saslavsky directed his second and most famous movie, Crimen a las tres.
De Zavalia went on to writer and direct Los Caranchos de la Florida in 1938, but came to prominence in 1939 when he was asked to adapt a biography of the recently deceased Carlos Gardel to the screen, starring Hugo del Carril. It was during production that he met actress Delia Garces, who went on to become her wife and starred in most of his films then on.
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