Movies: Fernando E. Solanas

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Félix Monti is synonymous with cinematography in Argentina. From his early steps in the legendary San Miguel studios to his recent work in large-scale Argentine film productions, Chango has never stopped working. Directors Alejandra Martín and Paola ...

Solanas en filmación is an unpublished documentary about the cinematographic direction work of Fernando “Pino” Solanas during the shooting of the movie El viaje....

Through a trip to the site Vaca Muerta, in Neuquen, the specialist Felix Herrero and research Maristella Svampa, revealing testimonies of villagers and technicians on the effects and results of the new process oil and unconventional gas are collected...

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What does Che Guevara"s mythic presence represent to people at the turn of the century, and how do people define their concept of utopia?...

The history of the Argentine railways, from 1857 until the crisis of the current transport system. The closing of branches of the railway lines turned towns whose main source of work was the train into ghost towns. The privatization of the lines caus...

Lengthy interviews, exclusive to this movie, with Juan Peron, describing his military career and the reforms he instituted as leader of the Argentine government....

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Tribute documentary on the relationship between music and image in the cinema, as a constitutive part of it, with great musical moments in Argentine films together with the words of those who compose and direct....

The degraded socio-economic condition of Argentina leading to the December 2001 rebellions, and its consequent social chaos analyzed by focusing on real people from Buenos Aires poorest shantytowns, crumbling hospitals, and women middle class farmers...

A series of interviews with Juan Domingo Perón in Madrid, where he was exiled. Filmed between June and October 1971, Perón talks about the current situation of the Justicialist movement and the steps to be taken to win the presidential elections agai...

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As the third installment in an ongoing series of muckraking documentaries by Argentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas that investigate various sociological aspects of South America's second-largest nation (following 2004's Memoria del saqueo and 2005's L...

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An extensive interview with Fernando Solanas and an important amount of unpublished material, the documentary describes the process of making the most influential film of Latin American cinema. It was done exclusively to accompany its home release....

In 1971, during the Spain of the last Franco, Solanas and Getino frequented Juan Perón's residence in Puerta de Hierro to film - secretly - two long documentaries with the former president. They were six months of travel between Madrid and Rome, wher...