Soriano (1999)

Directed by

Eduardo Montes-Bradley

Genre

documentary film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary piece follows the life and work of Argentine writer Osvaldo Soriano. Friends and colleagues from several countries share memories and anecdotes about him, and the film uses rare old footage Soriano shot as a young man.

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What happens

Soriano is a biographical documentary exploring the life and works of Osvaldo Soriano, author of Funny Dirty Little War, through testimonies of friends and colleagues in Argentina, France, Belgium, Germany, and Italy. 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 short film is now in the permanent collection of several university libraries. 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. The film was produced with the support of the Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación, the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, the Fondo Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, and the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores of Argentina. Soriano theatrical release was followed by the publication of a collection of testimonies in the essay "Soriano: Un Retrato" containing the entire original interviews, including the fragments that did not make it to the final cut. Soriano was later published on DVD by Noticias. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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