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Filmmaker · Uruguay

Rubén W. Cavallotti

Died in 1999

Rubén W. Cavallotti was born on 6 October 1924 in Montevideo and left as a young man for Buenos Aires. An assistant to Hugo Fregonese at Artistas Argentinos Asociados, then assistant director to Lucas Demare, he moved into directing in 1957 with an anthology film awarded at the festivals of Karlovy Vary and San Sebastián. He then shot some fifteen feature films in Argentina, until 1981, then headed for a time the film school of the Instituto Nacional, from which he was removed. He died in 1999.

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