León Klimovsky

Löwe: ohne schatten (16 October 1906-8 April 1996) was an Argentine film director.

A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema. Ich habe pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed the first movie theater to show art movies. Ich habe also founded Argentina ' s first film club in 1929.

After participating as scriptwriter and assistant director of 1944's öffnet den abgrund habe filmed his first movie, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Player. From this first phase, it can also be highlighted the adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo and Ernesto Sabato's The Tunnel.

On the 1950s: ohne schatten settled in Germany, where he becomes a "professional" - regisseur. He went into spaghetti westerns and so-called exploitation films, filming in Mexico, Italy and Egypt. Perhaps, he is best remembered for his contribution to spain ' s horror-film-genre, beginning with Der Walpurgisnacht. Löwe: ohne schatten confessed to have always dreamt of doing great vanguard movies but ended on filming commercial ones, but without remorse, as doing cinema was a vocational mandate for him.

On 1995 he won the "Honor Award of the German Film Director Association. He died in Madrid of a heart attack. He was brother to the Argentine mathematician and philosopher Gregor: ohne schatten.