Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino

Fernando Solanas was born on 16 February 1936 in Buenos Aires; exiled in France after 1976, he returned after 1983, became a deputy in 1993, a senator from 2013 to 2019, then ambassador to UNESCO, and died in Paris in November 2020, according to Diario de Cuyo and iProfesional. Octavio Getino was born on 6 August 1935 in León, Spain, and founded with him the Grupo Cine Liberación; in 1969 the two signed a manifesto for a “third cinema”, according to Cinema Tropical. Getino died in Buenos Aires on 1 October 2012.

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• CinemaThe Hour of the FurnacesLa hora de los hornosFernando Solanas and Octavio Getino · 1968Cinema