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Soriano (film)

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Soriano
Directed byEduardo Montes-Bradley
Produced byContrakultura Films
StarringAna María Shua, Gianni Minà, Franco Lucentini, Gianni Minà and others
CinematographyGastón Ocampo
Edited byEduardo López
Distributed byAlexander Street Press
Release date
  • April 22, 1999 (1999-04-22) (Argentina)
Running time
80 minutes, and 60 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguagesSpanish, French, Italian

Soriano is a biographical documentary exploring the life and works of Osvaldo Soriano, author of Funny Dirty Little War through testimonies of friends and family in Argentina, France, Belgium, Germany, and Italy.[1] The documentary includes rare 16mm footage filmed by Soriano and friends in his hometown of Tandil in the early 1960s. Part of this original footage was used by the director to reconstruct a short film as it was scripted by a young Osvaldo Soriano. The show film is now on the permanent collection of several university libraries.[2]

Soriano was filmed on locations in Milan, Rome, Paris, Linz am Rhein, Brussels, and Buenos Aires, and includes interviews with Osvaldo Bayer, Héctor Olivera, Gianni Minà, Franco Lucentini, Federico Luppi, Eduardo Galeano, Fernando Birri and others.[3]

Soriano theatrical release was followed by the publication of a collection of testimonies in the essay “Soriano: Un Retrato”[4] containing the entire original interviews, including the fragments that did not make it to the final cut.[5] Soriano was later published on DVD by Noticias.

Awards and honors

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  • Official Selection, XIII Festival del Cinema Latino Americano. Trieste, October 1998[6]

References

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  1. ^ Movie Data Base
  2. ^ World Cat. Cortometraje de Osvaldo Soriano
  3. ^ Bernardez, Horacio. Página/12. Buenos Aires, April 23, 1999
  4. ^ Grupo Editorial Norma, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2000. Sperling & Kupfer Editori, Milan, Italy, 2001, 164pp
  5. ^ Aguilar, Gonzalo. New Argentine Film. Palgrave Macmillan, Mar 15, 2011 - Drama - 320 pages
  6. ^ XIII Festival del Cinema Latino Americano. Programa Di Sala. Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires.
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