Fernando E. Solanas
Birthday: 1936-02-16
Place of Birth: Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Biography: Fernando Ezequiel 'Pino' Solanas was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and politician. His films include La hora de los hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces) (1968), Tangos: el exilio de Gardel (1985), Sur (1988), El viaje (1992), La nube (1998) and Memoria del saqueo (2004), among many others. He was National Senator representing the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires for six years, from 2013 to 2019. In 2019, following the end of his term as senator, he was appointed as Argentina's ambassador to UNESCO; he served in the position until his death in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, on 6 November 2020. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movies
Three in the Drift of the Creative Act
Last homage to the great director Fernando Solanas, dear to our hearts, who came multiple times in C...
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Ángel, la diva y yo
Buenos Aires at the end of the millennium a young filmmaker hopeless about their future decides to f...
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Chango, the Light Uncovers
Félix Monti is synonymous with cinematography in Argentina. From his early steps in the legendary Sa...
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Cómo se hizo "La hora de los hornos"
An extensive interview with Fernando Solanas and an important amount of unpublished material, the do...
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The Hour of the Furnaces
An impassioned three-part documentary of the liberation struggle waged throughout Latin America, usi...
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The Next Station
The history of the Argentine railways, from 1857 until the crisis of the current transport system. T...
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El cine a través de la música
Tribute documentary on the relationship between music and image in the cinema, as a constitutive par...
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Chronicles of an Exile
Director Octavio Getino is exiled in Lima. Through letters, archive footage and the protagonist’s vo...
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Dar la cara
Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face t...
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The Strategic Legacy of Juan Perón
In 1971, during the Spain of the last Franco, Solanas and Getino frequented Juan Perón's residence i...
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Social Genocide
After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a se...
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Carpani, vida y obra
A journey through the life and work of artist Ricardo Carpani, his artistic and ideological formatio...
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Debtocracy
Debtocracy seeks the causes of the Greek debt crisis and proposes solutions sidelined by the governm...
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Vicentin, de gran empresa a gran estafa
Fifty intense minutes for the viewer to review the history of the company and the political, social ...
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Solanas en filmación
Solanas en filmación is an unpublished documentary about the cinematographic direction work of Ferna...
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Latinoamérica, territorio en disputa
Documantary film on the dispute for the hegemony of the Latin American continent between conservativ...
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What Do You Know About Me
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Th...
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Malvinas: La retirada
In the midst of a profound economic, political, and social crisis, in April 1982, the armed forces l...
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The Inconclusive Independence
Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America....
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The Cloud
A black cloud brings 1600 days of rain to Buenos Aires, while traffic and pedestrians move backwards...
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Che: muerte de la utopia?
What does Che Guevara"s mythic presence represent to people at the turn of the century, and how do p...
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