Release calendarTop 250 moviesMost popular moviesBrowse movies by genreTop box officeShowtimes & ticketsMovie newsIndia movie spotlight
    What's on TV & streamingTop 250 TV showsMost popular TV showsBrowse TV shows by genreTV news
    What to watchLatest trailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily entertainment guideIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsEmmysSan Diego Comic-ConSummer Watch GuideToronto Int'l Film FestivalSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll events
    Born todayMost popular celebsCelebrity news
    Help centerContributor zonePolls
For industry professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign in
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
Back
  • Cast & crew
  • Trivia
IMDbPro
El trueno entre las hojas (1957)

Trivia

El trueno entre las hojas

Edit
This was the first Argentine film to show full nudity.
Debut of actress Isabel Sarli and first career nude scenes. She was a model who was discovered by filmmaker Armando Bo when he spotted a series of ads with her photos. He cast her in this film and she appeared in most of his following films. They also became lovers after he divorced his wife. Her several nude scenes were highly criticized and condemned in Argentina. In spite of censorship and persecution, she became an international star and sex symbol, filming in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela.
After casting first-time actress and former Miss Argentina Isabel Sarli, director Armando Bo took her to see an Ingmar Bergman film that included a nude scene and told her he wanted to do something similar by having her skinny dip in a pond. She was shocked and refused. But she finally agreed after he promised she could wear a nude-colored swimsuit. Yet on the day of filming the scene in the middle of the Paraguayan jungle, Bo told her they forgot the swimsuit. She was angry, but he managed to talk her into swimming fully nude by telling her no one would notice that she was naked because they would film from a great distance up on a hill. But, without her knowing, he filmed her with a telephoto lens that captured even the smallest detail of her naked body. When Sarli saw the film at the premiere with a theater of people, she was enraged and embarrassed. She confronted Bo the next day but he calmed her down by convincing her it would help make the film a success and her a big star. He even talked her into posing for nude promotional photos for men's magazines. Sarli went on to perform nude in most of the films she made for Bo during her career.
Director Armando Bo and actress Isabel Sarli worked together through most of her career and became lovers.
Censorship in Argentina delayed the film's release. In Paraguay, they didn't want to release it because General Stroessner, who was in charge of the government at the time, said that human exploitation would not occur in his country. We had to add a legend, at the beginning of the film, stating that human exploitation was part of Paraguay's past.

Contribute to this page

Suggest an edit or add missing content
El trueno entre las hojas (1957)
Top Gap
By what name was El trueno entre las hojas (1957) officially released in Canada in English?
Answer
  • See more gaps
  • Learn more about contributing
Edit page

More from this title

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb App
Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
Follow IMDb on social
Get the IMDb App
For Android and iOS
Get the IMDb App
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • License IMDb Data
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.