Personal Info
Birth date
1921-03-11 (104 Years)
Day of death
1992-07-04
Gender
Male
Known for
Sound
Place of birth
Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Also known as
Astor Piazolla
Astor Piazzolla
Biography
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer, film composer, bandoneon player and arranger. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles. In 1992, American music critic Stephen Holden described Piazzolla as "the world's foremost composer of tango music".
Filmography
Los simuladores
8.555
Overview:
A small team of con artists for hire use their skills to solve common people's life problems.Armageddon
5.738
Overview:
After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.The Journey
5.6
Overview:
A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence.All Nudity Shall Be Punished
4.882
Overview:
A rich, spoiled young man encounters a prostitute and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her. He can't decide between attraction and repulsion.Brief Heaven
5.7
Overview:
Young and correct Paquito meets a girl on the streets of Buenos Aires. They spend some time around the city, while discovering the outgoing and enigmatic character of Delia.The South
6.423
Overview:
After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.The Lion with the White Beard
6
Overview:
An animated film based on the tale of Tonino Guerra, telling the story of the once famous circus duet - the lion and its owner, the story of how the famous lion Amadeo performed in the traveling circus of Signor Peretti.Tango
NYR
Overview:
A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies, art works, dance performances, historical footage, photographs of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20th century, and texts by Celedonio Flores and Enrique Santos Discépolo.Le Pont du Nord
6.842
Overview:
Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried by Marie's former lover, they roam the street of Paris, transformed into a giant board game, a maze spotted with mysterious traps, puzzling clues, and chance encounters. Maybe they are bricks in some sinister scheme, maybe they are playing a board game, maybe it's a fairy tale, maybe it's yet something else...Piazzolla: The Years of the Shark
6.2
Overview:
A cinematic portrait of the world-wide legendary Argentinian composer who changed tango. For the first time ever, the hidden archives of bandoneón player Astor Piazzolla are opened by his son Daniel.Lumière
6.8
Overview:
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah had long considered a platonic friend. She had just finished a film, had also finished her relationship with the director and was about to receive an award…Paris s'en va
4.667
Overview:
Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He works with the same actors and the same technical team on both films. Henry Chapier who produced the short: "At the beginning of the '80s nobody was interested in Rivette's highly imaginative project Le Pont du Nord. Therefore Rivette came up with a kind of 'transposition' of the themes of Le Pont du Nord in the shape of Paris s'en va. Just like a painter in the Renaissance who does a sketch for a future project."Las pirañas
5.7
Overview:
Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to not permanently lose her husband or fall into madness.Henry IV
6.4
Overview:
Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.The Return
NYR
Overview:
A man receives a telegram that his father is dying, and travels with his wife to his hometown. They discover that the telegram is untrue, and set out to find who sent the message and why.Cuarteles de invierno
6.5
Overview:
A boxer and a singer are hired by the Armed Forces to entertain the people of a small town. When their personalities and principles get them in trouble with the authorities, they support each other as they face their destiny.El crack
4
Overview:
Osvaldo, a football player on the rise, begins to be targeted by private interests who want to elevate him to the status of a sports star.When the City Awakes
4.364
Overview:
An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
6.7
Overview:
Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo
8.3
Overview:
Astor Piazzolla revolutionized the tango. By breaking with the codes of traditional tango, he brought this popular Argentine music from dance floors to concert halls around the world and is now recognized as a major composer of the 20th century. From numerous unpublished private archives, the voices of Astor and his children paint a unique portrait of this complex man.Rain over Santiago
6.324
Overview:
A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.Acting
2024Milva, diva per sempre as Himself
2018Piazzolla: The Years of the Shark as Self (archive footage)
2017Tango in Paris: Memories of Astor Piazzolla as Self (archive footage)
2017Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo as Self (archive footage)
2017Tango under the Stars - Gustavo Dudamel as Self - Composer
2007Astor Piazzolla: The Next Tango as Self
1997Quereme así (Piantao) as Self
1990Astor Piazzolla in Portrait as Self
1988Siempre lunes (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
1986Chico & Caetano (1 Episode) as Unknown
1985Astor Piazzolla en Shams as Self - Bandoneon
1983Bei Bio (1 Episode) as Self
1982Champs-Elysées (1 Episode) as Self
1975Numéro un (1 Episode) as Self
1975Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1 Episode) as Self
1972Argentinísima as Self
1972Le Grand Échiquier (2 Episodes) as Self
1969Tango argentino as Self
1967Fuelle querido as Self
1962Prisioneros de una noche as Unknown
1950El cielo en las manos as Unknown
1947El hombre del sábado as Unknown
1935El día que me quieras as Newspaper's kid
Sound
2025Richard Galliano New York Tango Trio Jazz sous les Pommiers 2025 ... Original Music Composer
2025Armonie di Speranza ... Original Music Composer
2024Wartime Elegy - Une soirée de ballet à l'Opéra national d'Ukraine ... Sound
2023Astor Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires Grand Théâtre de Genève ... Original Music Composer
2020The Lying Angel ... Music
2019María de Buenos Aires ... Original Music Composer
2017Tres Desinteresados y un Amante ... Music
2017Los Amantes del Tigre ... Music
2013Mind in the Wilderness: Khatia Buniatishvili ... Music
2003Microscopías ... Music
2002Los simuladores (11 Episodes) ... Songs
1997Quereme así (Piantao) ... Music
1995The Lion with the White Beard ... Music
1994The Color of Love ... Music
1994Ett sommarspel ... Music
1992Eggshells ... Music
1992The Journey ... Original Music Composer
1988Enligt beslut ... Music
1988The South ... Music, Musician
1985Tangos, the Exile of Gardel ... Music, Original Music Composer
1985Tango ... Music
1985Este año comen un día no y el otro tampoco ... Music
1984Cuarteles de invierno ... Music
1984Henry IV ... Original Music Composer
1984Ein Bett mit Passagieren ... Music
1982Are We? ... Music
1982To Return ... Music
1982Le Pont du Nord ... Music
1982Neon City ... Music
1981Paris s'en va ... Original Music Composer
1980El infierno tan temido ... Music
1980The Intruder ... Original Music Composer
1979Gaivotas (140, 140 Episode) ... Theme Song Performance, Music
1977What's Autumn? ... Music
1977Armageddon ... Music
1976Lumière ... Original Music Composer
1975Rain over Santiago ... Original Music Composer
1975When the City Awakes ... Original Music Composer
1973The Return ... Music
1973All Nudity Shall Be Punished ... Music
1972La ñata contra el vidrio ... Sound
1971La mitad de un día ... Music
1970Con alma y vida ... Music
1970El principio del fin ... Music
1969Kuma-Ching ... Original Music Composer
1969Brief Heaven ... Music
1969Impasse ... Music
1969The Slowness ... Original Music Composer
1967Las pirañas ... Original Music Composer
1966Buenos días, Buenos Aires ... Music
1966Las locas del conventillo ... Original Music Composer
1965Con gusto a rabia ... Music
1964Extraña ternura ... Original Music Composer
1963Paula Cautiva ... Music
1963La fin del mundo ... Music Director, Music
1963Those who will see God ... Music
1963El nacimiento de un libro ... Music
1962Detrás de la mentira ... Music
1961Last year of Nacional High School ... Music
1960The Furies ... Music
1960Saturday Night, Cinema ... Original Music Composer
1960El crack ... Music
1958Dos basuras ... Songs
1957Historia de una carta ... Music
1957Operación Antartida ... Music
1957A Difficult Widow ... Original Music Composer
1957Violencia en la ciudad ... Music
1956The Bitter Stems ... Original Music Composer
1956Marta Ferrari ... Music
1954Sucedió en Buenos Aires ... Music
1953Stella Maris ... Music
1950El cielo en las manos ... Music, Original Music Composer
1950Steel racing cars ... Music
1949Con los mismos colores ... Music
Crew
2012Salvatore Accardo and the Italian Chamber Orchestra in Concert ... Compositor