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Fernando Ezequiel 'Pino' Solanas (born 16 February 1936, Olivos

Olivos, Buenos Aires

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, Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires Province

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, Argentina

Argentina

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) is an Argentine film director

Film director

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, screenwriter and politician.
His films include La hora de los hornos (1968), Tangos: el exilio de Gardel
El exilio de Gardel (Tangos)
El exilio de Gardel is an Argentine-French movie released on 20 March 1986, directed by Fernando Solanas and starred by Marie Laforêt, Miguel Ángel Solá and Philippe Leotard.- Cast :* Marie Laforêt * Miguel Ángel Solá...

(1985), Sur
Sur (film)
Sur is an Argentine drama film written and directed by Fernando E. Solanas. The film features Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, Lito Cruz, Ulises Dumont among others....

(1988), El viaje
The Journey (1992 film)
The Journey is a 1992 Argentine drama film directed by Fernando Solanas. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Walter Quiroz - Martin* Soledad Alfaro - Vidala* Ricardo Bartis - Monitor* Christina Becerra - Violeta...

(1992), La nube (1998) and Memorias del saqueo (2004), among many others.

Solanas studied theatre, music and law. In 1962, he directed his first short feature Seguir andando and in 1968 he covertly produced and directed his first long feature film La Hora de los Hornos, a documentary on neo-colonialism and violence in Latin America

Latin America

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. The film won several international awards and was screened around the world.
Solanas has won the Special Jury Award and the Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival

The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...

and the Best Director Palme at the Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...

. He was awarded a special Golden Bear

Golden Bear

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at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival. He collaborated with the great tango

Tango music

Tango is a style of ballroom dance music in 2/4 or 4/4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay . It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, double bass, and two bandoneons...

composer and musician Ástor Piazzolla

Ástor Piazzolla

Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...

on the soundtracks for various movies .

Context

Solanas was at the forefront of the Grupo Cine Liberación
Grupo Cine Liberación
The Grupo Cine Liberación was an Argentine film movement that took place during the end of the sixties. It was founded by Fernando Solanas, Octavio Getino and Gerardo Vallejo...

that revolutionised Argentine cinema

Film

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in the 1970s, developing its social conscience and political voice. He was active in the campaign to support Perón

Juan Perón

Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer, and politician. Perón was three times elected as President of Argentina though he only managed to serve one full term, after serving in several government positions, including the Secretary of Labor and the Vice Presidency...

. Threatened by right-wing forces in the 1970s, one of his actors was assassinated and he himself was almost kidnapped.

Together with Octavio Getino

Octavio Getino

Octavio Getino is an Argentine film director who is best known for co-founding, along with Fernando Solanas, the Grupo Cine Liberación and the school of Third Cinema....

, Solanas wrote the manifesto "Toward a Third Cinema". The Idea of a political Third Cinema

Third Cinema

Third Cinema is a Latin American film movement that started in the 1960s-70s which decries neocolonialism, the capitalist system, and the Hollywood model of cinema as mere entertainment to make money...

, opposed to Hollywood Cinema and European Auteur cinema, inspired film makers in many so-called developing countries.

Solanas went into exile in Paris

Paris

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in 1976, only returning to Argentina

Argentina

with the arrival of democracy in 1983.

Political work

He continued to make political films and was an outspoken critic of Carlos Menem

Carlos Menem

Carlos Saúl Menem is an Argentine politician who was President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. He is currently an Argentine National Senator for La Rioja Province.-Early life:...

, the Argentine President. Three days after such a public criticism, on 21 May 1991, Solanas was the victim of a violent attack, receiving six shots on the legs. Despite dealing with the attack and disability, Solanas became even more involved in politics and stood to be a Senator

Argentine Senate

The Argentine Senate is the upper house of the Argentine National Congress. It has 72 senators: three for each province and three for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires...

for Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, receiving 7% of the vote in 1992. A year later he was elected a National Deputy

Argentine Chamber of Deputies

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for the Frente Grande list, although he left the party after a year.

Solanas continues to write and direct, including the 2005 film La Dignidad de los Nadies and the recently 2008 film "La última estación". His son, Juan Solanas, is also a noted film director.

In October 2007, Solanas was a presidential

President of Argentina

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candidate in the Argentine general election, 2007

Argentine general election, 2007

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for the Authentic Socialist Party. He became the 5th most voted candidate, with 1.58% of the vote.

In 2009, Solanas was elected as National Deputy for the city of Buenos Aires on the June 28th parliamentary elections

Argentine legislative election, 2009

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, as his party Proyecto Sur

Proyecto Sur

Proyecto Sur is a political party established in 2007 in Argentina. It was founded and would be led by film maker Fernando "Pino" Solanas, who ran on the Proyecto Sur ticket for President in 2007 and for Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires in 2011....

became the 2nd force on the city by collecting 24.2% of the votes.

Filmography

La tierra sublevada (2009)
La próxima estación (2008)
Argentina latente (2007)
La dignidad de los nadies (2005)
Memoria del saqueo (2004)
Afrodita, el sabor del amor (2001)
La nube (1998)
El viaje
The Journey (1992 film)
The Journey is a 1992 Argentine drama film directed by Fernando Solanas. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Walter Quiroz - Martin* Soledad Alfaro - Vidala* Ricardo Bartis - Monitor* Christina Becerra - Violeta...

(1992)
Sur
Sur (film)
Sur is an Argentine drama film written and directed by Fernando E. Solanas. The film features Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, Lito Cruz, Ulises Dumont among others....

(1988)
El exilio de Gardel (Tangos)
El exilio de Gardel (Tangos)
El exilio de Gardel is an Argentine-French movie released on 20 March 1986, directed by Fernando Solanas and starred by Marie Laforêt, Miguel Ángel Solá and Philippe Leotard.- Cast :* Marie Laforêt * Miguel Ángel Solá...

(1985)
La mirada de los otros (1980) Filmed in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France
France
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Los hijos de fierro (1972)
Perón: actualización política y doctrinaria para la toma del poder (1971)
Perón, la revolución justicialista (1971)
Argentina, Mayo de 1969: los caminos de la liberación (1969)
La hora de los hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces)
The Hour of the Furnaces
The Hour of the Furnaces is a 1968 film directed by Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas. It addresses the politics of the 'Third worldist' films and Latin-American manifesto of the late 1960s.- Reception :...

(1968)
Reflexión ciudadana (1963) (short)
Seguir andando (1962) (short)

Quotes

"The possibility of making a new cinema completely outside the system depends on whether or not filmmakers can transform themselves from 'directors' into total filmmakers. And no one can become a total filmmaker without being a film technician, without being capable of handling the production."

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Context

Political work

Filmography

Quotes

Further reading

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