- Mario David was born on May 1, 1930 in Gonzalez Chavez, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and writer, known for El ayudante (1971), El amor infiel (1974) and La rabona (1979). He died on April 13, 2001 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- He directed and wrote 12 films between 1971 and 1996.
- David was joining the Argentine cinematic trend of the 70's in making commercial sex comedies, releasing his second film, "Disputas en la cama" (1972) starring actors such as Víctor Laplace and Soledad Silveyra.
- The work of Mario David is unavoidable when studying the aesthetics, style and themes of the movement known as the "generation of 70's".
- His debut drama El Ayudante, about a truck driver (Pepe Soriano) who befriends a young, deaf male assistant, was based on the book El sordomudo by the author Bernardo Kordon. Upon release 25 March 1971 in Buenos Aires, it was both a box office success and critically acclaimed, with the critic from the newspaper La Razón writing: "Kordon's story gains expressive vigor in the images and verisimilitude in its characters and forms a captivating poetic climate and a lucid realistic testimony".
- Mario David was an Argentine film director and screenwriter.
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