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Fernando Birri

Director | Actor | Writer

Birri is known as the "Father of the New Latin American Cinema". He studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, and after graduating returned to Argentina where he founded in the province of Santa Fe, the first film school specialized in documentalism in Latin America. He was forced to exile due to the Argentinian military coup de etat... See full bio »

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2011 El Fausto Criollo
 
2006 ZA 05. Lo viejo y lo nuevo (documentary)
 
1999 Che: muerte de la utopia? (documentary)
 
1999 Century of the Wind (documentary)
 
1998 Entangling Shadows (documentary)
 
1988 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
 
1985 Mi hijo el Che - Un retrato de familia de don Ernesto Guevara (documentary)
 
1984 Rte.: Nicaragua (Carta al mundo)
 
1983 Rafael Alberti, un retrato del poeta (documentary)
 
1979 Org
 
1963 La pampa gringa
 
1962 Che, Buenos Aires (documentary)
 
1961 Flooded Out
 
1960 Toss Me a Dime (documentary short)
 
1959 Buenos días, Buenos Aires (short)
 
1959 La primera fundación de Buenos Aires (short)
 
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2012 Fernando Birri, el utópico andante
 
2012 Vanishing Landscapes
Remoro Barroso
 
2010 Long Live the People of the Revolution (video)
 
2005 Madres de Mayo, un poema de Fernando Birri (short) (voice)
 
1996 Trece segundos (short)
Cameo
 
1994 Plumitas calientes
El Angel
 
1991 Un cielo lánguido y oxidado
 
1988 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
 
1983 La rosa de los vientos
Mateo
 
1973 No More Time
Filippo Buonarroti
 
1969 Sierra Master
Manolo, Guerrillero
 
1955 Abandoned
Scattered soldiers' lieutenant
 
1954 Attila
 
1954 Ho ritrovato mio figlio
 
1954 The Cheerful Squadron
 
Show ShowWriter (14 titles)
2012 Realidac (documentary short) (Manifiesto de Santa Fé)
 
2011 El Fausto Criollo
 
2006 ZA 05. Lo viejo y lo nuevo (documentary)
 
1999 Che: muerte de la utopia? (documentary) (writer)
 
1999 Century of the Wind (documentary) (writer)
 
1988 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (screenplay)
 
1985 Mi hijo el Che - Un retrato de familia de don Ernesto Guevara (documentary)
 
1983 Rafael Alberti, un retrato del poeta (documentary) (writer)
 
1981 Compañero Fernando (documentary)
 
1979 Org (writer)
 
1969 Sierra Master
 
1961 Flooded Out
 
1960 Toss Me a Dime (documentary short)
 
1959 La primera fundación de Buenos Aires (short) (writer)
 
Show ShowEditor (3 titles)
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2010 Migración (documentary short) (producer)
 
1979 Org (executive producer)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (1 title)
1988 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (writer: "Marcha del jucio final", "The Spider Woman")
 
Show ShowSpecial Effects (1 title)
1979 Org (special effects)
 
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1979 Org (sound)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
2012 Fable (short) (special thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (10 titles)
2006 Carpani, vida y obra (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Una Mancha en el agua (documentary short)
Narrator
 
2005 Donde comienza el camino (documentary)
Interviewed
 
2003 Glauber o Filme, Labirinto do Brasil (documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Stones in the Sky (documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Un tal ragone: Deconstruyendo a pa (documentary)
Interviws
 
2001 Directives Are Directives (documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1999 Che: muerte de la utopia? (documentary)
 
1999 Soriano (documentary)
Himself
 
1981 Compañero Fernando (documentary)
Himself
 
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Birri, Fernando, Horizonte de la mano, Santa Fé, Argentina, 1945.
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Honorary president of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. See more »

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