Fernando Birri
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Biography: Fernando Birri was an Argentinian filmmaker, poet, painter, teacher and film school founder, and has been a key figure in Latin American cinema.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Santa Fe, Argentina
Adult: No
Birthday: March 13, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 27, 2017
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Compañero Fernando
Overview: This documentary is a portrait made in Mexico by a group of Argentine exiles, directed by the painter Nicolás Amoroso.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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BirriLata, Around by Train
Overview: Few people in Argentine and Latin American cinema have been as close as Fernando Birri to stand as a patriarch, pioneer, and spokesman for a committed cinema that tears itself apart in its solidarity with its own surroundings. This ode to the tireless Birri presents him to us in full: teaching, establishing standards, and creating with the tools of his time, turning culture into a form of political affirmation as he grows more and more vital and rooted.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-11-05
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Attila
Overview: Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-27
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Ho ritrovato mio figlio
Overview: A young boy, about to take his first communion, must wrestle with his familial loyalty and his conscience when there is a fire at their local cinema where his brother works and it is clear that he is involved in the theft of the projector. Determined to right the wrong done by his sibling, he attempts to make amends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-19
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Abandoned
Overview: A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them for shelter in their villa. The young and aristocratic Andrea strikes up a friendship with a peasant girl, Lucia. Then the Germans suddenly appear, looking for the real partisans, and the time comes for serious decisions.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-07
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Un tal Ragone: deconstruyendo a Pa
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Amizade
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Historias Breves II: Trece Segundos
Overview: What goes through someone's mind 13 seconds before they die? A town lost in the year 40. Different characters in their common actions. Two men lying in the street, one dead, the other playing dead. Between reality and the delusions of his mind we travel through his last thirteen seconds of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Jorge Giannoni: NN, ese soy yo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Rocha Que Voa
Overview: Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-08-04
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Historias Breves 2
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Dar la cara
Overview: Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-11-29
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El Fausto Criollo
Overview: A version of El Estatola del Campo's poetic Faust of the Poet (1886) integrates the major trilogy of Argentine gaucho poetry, is proposed here in a faithful version and integral.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-09-01
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Overview: An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. The Old Man lands near a Caribbean island where a poor family gives him shelter in a chicken coop. Father Gonzaga is the skeptical priest who rushes to damn the creature. Soon the Old Man is the subject of curiosity seekers as Elisinda and Pelayo start charging admission. A traveling carnival of human oddities camps near the Old Man as people flock to see the show. The Old Man is reduced to being an unwanted pet, and after six years, he mends his wings and flies away. Nudity, simulated sex with a spider woman, and the ugliness of human exploitation definitely put this fantasy in a category not for children.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Tie Your Plow to a Star
Overview: In 1997 the Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birri returned to his home country to film a documentary on the 30th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara and the relevance of utopias at that time. Carmen Guarini decided to record those moments. A rough edit of this film was hidden away on a fragile VHS tape for twenty years. Today, these images come to life and shed some light on the life of this Latin American poet and master filmmaker, who, at the age of 92, still refused to give up on his own utopias.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-11-01
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Vanishing landscapes
Overview: A mockumentary about three young student filmmakers as they make a movie about an alleged film director living obscurely in a Buenos Aires mental hospital. In their visits to the mental hospital, the three students will forge a very special relationship with the self-styled former film director as they follow different clues and strategies to discover his 'true' identity.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-05-02
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Fernando Birri, el utópico andante
Overview: Documentary film about Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Birri. An interview: a journey through documentary filmmaking, his childhood, the dawning of New Latin American cinema...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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Carpani, vida y obra
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-11-08
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The Compass Rose
Overview: Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin American culture from the late-15th century to the present. For some viewers, the film will be superficially symbolic and rhetorical, for others, it will be a strong and personal vision of several centuries of history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-03-19
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Soriano
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-04-22
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The Cheerful Squadron
Overview: The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-05
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Mario Verdone: Il critico viaggiatore
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-18
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untitled (Document No. 1)(Helmut Waldemar / Winchester Banz)
Overview: A tribute to German film critic and cinema activist Helmut W. Banz made with outtakes from two features by Jürgen Heiter. Banz as an explorer, as a loner and as a friend, as a charmer and as a recluse – a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Overview: Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-17
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Sierra Maestra
Overview: An Italian journalist is arrested in Venezuela by the military, accused of being a revolutionary. The journalist, interviewed by the press, says he has no connection with the guerrilla organizations and is thrown into jail and subjected to psychological and physical violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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Donde comienza el camino
Overview: The journey of Fernando Birri, the great father of New Latin American Cinema, has left a mark that begins at the legendary Santa Fe Documentary School and continues to this day. His methods, influences, his founding role, his poetic-political commitment, and his artistic output are some of the milestones that make up his journey.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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