Pino Solanas

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Pino Solanas (2008)

Pino Solanas , actually Fernando Ezequiel Solanas (born February 16, 1936 in Olivos , Buenos Aires Province , † November 6, 2020 in Paris ) was an Argentine film director , screenwriter and politician . His best-known films include Die Reise (1992), Tangos (1985) and South - Sur (1988).

Life

Pino Solanas studied theater , music ( piano and composition ) and law . In 1962 he made his first short film Seguir Andando and in 1968 his first feature film, La Hora de los Hornos - The Hour of Fire , a documentary about neo-colonialism and violence in Latin America , which quickly became a classic in Latin American political cinema. The film won several international awards and was shown all over the world. Often only the first part is shown; the other open Peronist parts were also controversial within the left.

Solanas took an active part in the Grupo Cine Liberación , which revolutionized Argentine cinema in the 1970s. Solanas took part in campaigns in support of Perón . In the 1970s he was threatened by right-wing groups, one of his actors was murdered and he himself was almost kidnapped. Solanas also made commercials to finance his political film work.

Together with Octavio Getino , Solanas wrote the manifesto “For a third cinema”. The idea of ​​a political third cinema - with a claim contrary to Hollywood cinema, but also to European auteur cinema, which is perceived as too harmless - inspired many filmmakers in the so-called developing countries.

Solanas escaped in 1976 before the Argentine military dictatorship of Paris into exile , where he was a Peronist was stigmatized. In exile he made the documentary about the disabled Le regard des autres (1980) (German: The gaze of others). Immediately after his return to Buenos Aires, he shot tangos there ( Tangos, el exilio di Gardel , 1984), which tells the story of a young Argentinian woman in exile in Paris. He returned to Argentina in 1983. In 1988, in his feature film, South - Sur , which is underlaid with tango sounds, Solanas focused on a worker who was released from prison after the end of the military dictatorship and who began to wander through the night. This film earned him the Director's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that same year .

Solanas continued to make political films and was a sharp critic of then-Argentine President Carlos Menem , whom he caricatured in the satirical road movie Die Reise from 1991 . Three days after he publicly criticized Menem, on May 21, 1991 , Solanas was hit by two bullets. Despite his health problems after the attack, Solanas continued to be politically active and ran for Buenos Aires as senator in 1992 and received 7% of the vote. A year later he was elected to the Argentine parliament for the Frente País Solidario , but left the party after a year.

Solanas continued to make films. Memoria del saqueo (2004) is an angry reckoning with neoliberalism in Argentina. Critics noticed this film, as did La hora de los Hornos , Solanas' pronounced nationalism . In 2005 La Dignidad de los Nadies came out.

Solanas worked with Astor Piazzolla on the soundtrack of several of his films .

In the early congressional elections on June 28, 2009, the film director and politician Solanas stood as a candidate with his center-left alliance Proyecto Sur (Project South) in Buenos Aires and achieved the second-best result there with more than 24 percent of the votes.

In 2018 he was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a screenwriter , which awards the Oscars every year.

Solanas' son, Juan Diego Solanas , is also a film director.

Pino Solanas died on November 6, 2020 at the age of 84 in Paris as a result of COVID-19 .

literature

  • Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, "For a Third Cinema" in: Cinema and Struggle in Latin America. On the theory and practice of political cinema , ed. by Peter B. Schumann , Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag 1976, pp. 9-19

Filmography

  • 1962: Seguir andando
  • 1963: Reflexión ciudana
  • 1969: The Hour of the Blast Furnaces (The Hour of Fire) (La hora de los Hornos)
  • 1971: Revolución justicalista
  • 1971: Actualisación politica y doctrinaria
  • 1978: Los hijos de Fierro (Sons of Fierro)
  • 1980: The View of Others (La Mirada de los Otros)
  • 1985: Tangos - The exile of Gardel (Tangos, el exilio de Gardel)
  • 1987: South - Sur (Sur)
  • 1991: The Journey (El viaje)
  • 1998: The last curtain (arbor)
  • 2002: Afrodita, el sabor del amor
  • 2004: Memoria del Saqueo - Chronicle of a Looting (Memoria del saqueo)
  • 2005: The Dignity of Nobody (La Dignidad de los Nadies)
  • 2007: Argentina latente
  • 2008: Próxima estación

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b "Fernando" Pino "Solanas murió por coronavirus en París" on infobae.com from November 7, 2020
  2. https://hclauba.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/tangos-el-exilio-de-gardel-y-sur_2005.pdf
  3. Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
  4. Argentinian filmmaker Solanas died , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on November 7, 2020.
  5. a b c d e f g h i j k l Walter Ruggle : Around the world in 90 films - Africa, Asia, Latin America . trigon-film , Wettigen 2000, p. 22-27 .