Sergio Renan

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Sergio Renan

Sergio Renán , actually Samuel Kohan , (born January 30, 1933 in Paraná (Entre Ríos) , † June 13, 2015 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine actor, filmmaker and opera director.

Life

Renán was born in Paraná under the name of Samuel Kohan. His father Alejandro Kohan came to Argentina from Russia when he was young; like his future wife Ana, he too had initially worked as a teacher. The Jewish family, which also included Kohan's older sister (* 1925), moved to Once in Buenos Aires, where the parents ran a haberdashery shop. At the age of 13, Kohan began to learn to play the violin with Jacobo Ficher and performed several times at the Teatro Colón . He was also a member of the Sociedad Hebraica Orchestra.

At the age of 18, Kohan moved from home, married and became the father of Nora Kohan, who later worked as a costume designer and painter. The marriage broke up after about two years. After a supporting role in the film Pasó en mi barrio by Mario Soffici in 1951, he played theater and was also seen in supporting roles in the cinema. Since his time as an actor, Kohan has called himself Sergio Renán, the last name going back to Ernest Renan . Renán was first active as a theater director in 1970 and staged the play Die Maiden by Jean Genet , which was a success. He also increasingly took on leading roles in Argentine film, including in Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Los siete locos in 1973. Nilsson finally brought Renán to work as a film director.

With Aída Bortnik , Renán wrote the screenplay for the film The Armistice , which is based on a novel by Mario Benedetti . The melodrama about a tragic love between a widowed office manager and a young employee made Renán's feature film directing debut in 1974 and in 1975 was the first Argentine film to receive an Oscar nomination in the category of best foreign language film . Renán also filmed a novel for his second film as a director, Crecer de golpe (1977), this time by Haroldo Conti . Further directorial work followed, including La fiesta de todos, a propaganda documentary film about the 1978 soccer World Cup in Argentina, which Argentina had also won.

In the 1980s, things calmed down around Renán, who turned increasingly to television and theater. Above all, he worked for the Teatro Colón opera , whose musical director he was from 1989 to 1996 and in 2000. During his time at the opera he tried “carefully to rejuvenate the dusty repertoire with modern music theater” and performed, among other things, The Absent City by Gerardo Gandini . With Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk , which was premiered in 2000 at the Teatro Real de Madrid, Renán also gave a guest appearance in the same year at the Prinzregententheater in Munich, with Mstislav Rostropovich as conductor . His last films as a director were La soledad era esto in 2002 and Tres de corazones in 2007 based on a template by Juan José Saer , both of which were rather poorly received by the critics, which Renán claims offended ("Las críticas me lastimaron muchísimo").

Renán's late years were also marked by illness. In 1997 he was in a coma for several weeks due to acute pancreatitis . Renán was diagnosed with throat cancer while filming Tres de corazones ; in 2014 his vocal cords had to be removed. He died in 2015 as a result of an infection.

Filmography (selection)

As a director

  • 1974: The Armistice (La tregua)
  • 1977: Crecer de golpe
  • 1980: Réquiem para un amigo
  • 1981: Sentimental (requiem para un amigo)
  • 1984: Gracias por el fuego
  • 1985: Tacos altos
  • 1997: El sueño de los heroes
  • 2002: La soledad era esto
  • 2007: Tres de corazones

As an actor (selection)

  • 1951: Pasó en mi barrio
  • 1957: Violencia en la ciudad
  • 1962: La cifra impar
  • 1964: Los evadidos
  • 1964: Circe
  • 1965: El perseguidor
  • 1965: Los hipócritas
  • 1965: Order de matar
  • 1966: Castigo al traidor
  • 1968: Asalto a la ciudad
  • 1968: Humo de Marihuana
  • 1968: Martín Fierro
  • 1968: Somos los mejores
  • 1971: Y qué patatín y qué patatán
  • 1972: Juan Manuel de Rosas
  • 1972: Heroína
  • 1973: Los siete locos
  • 1974: The Armistice (La tregua)
  • 1977: Crecer de golpe
  • 1979: El poder de las tinieblas
  • 1981: Sentimental (requiem para un amigo)
  • 1983: Los enemigos
  • 1987: Debajo del mundo
  • 1995: The Censor (El censor)

Awards

  • 1981: Nomination for the Golden Prize, Moscow International Film Festival , for Sentimental (requiem para un amigo)
  • 1981: Honorary diploma from the Premio Konex as a film director
  • 1998: Nomination for Cóndor de Plata , Best Adapted Screenplay, for El sueño de los héroes
  • 2005: Nomination Cóndor de Plata, Best Adapted Screenplay, for La soledad era esto
  • 2011: Honorary Citizenship of Buenos Aires
  • 2014: Lifetime Achievement Award, Cóndor de Plata, the Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la Argentina

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Murió Sergio Renán . lanacion.com.ar, June 13, 2015.
  2. ↑ Velan en el Colón a Sergio Renán . clarin.com, June 13, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Leila Guerriero: Sergio Renán, según pasan los años . lanacion.com.ar, June 13, 2015, originally ADN Cultura, April 2012.
  4. ^ Julio Nakamurakare: Iconic man of the arts Sergio Renán dies, 82 . buenosairesherald.com, June 14, 2015.
  5. ^ Director and ex-director Renán died in Buenos Aires . In: sda - Swiss Dispatch Agency Basic Service German , June 13, 2015.
  6. ↑ Peter B. Schumann: In the dead end of desires. A foray into the theater and cinema scene in the Argentine capital, which is threatened by austerity . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 29, 1995, p. 8.
  7. ^ Egbert Tholl: Look away, listen . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 18, 2000, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Renan, Sergio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohan, Samuel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian film actor, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Paraná (Entre Ríos)
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2015
Place of death Buenos Aires