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My Take
Solanas is the kind of artist I keep coming back to because he refused to stay in one lane. A Cannes-winning director who also picked up a camera, wrote the scores, and then went into politics is not a resume, it is a worldview. What I admire most is that he used his prestige as a weapon rather than a cushion, pointing his lens at Argentina's dictatorships and corruption when it would have been safer to coast. Pino mattered because he treated cinema as civic duty, and he carried that conviction from the outskirts of Buenos Aires all the way to the end.
Overview
Fernando Ezequiel "Pino" Solanas (16 February 1936 – 6 November 2020) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter, score composer and politician. His films include; La hora de los hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces) (1968), Tangos: el exilio de Gardel (1985), Sur (1988), The Journey (1992), The Cloud (1998) and Memoria del saqueo (2004), among many others.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Fernando Solanas
- Name (Japanese)
- フェルナンド・E・ソラナス
- Reading
- ふぇるなんど・E・そらなす
- Born
- February 16, 1936 – November 6, 2020
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Rat
- Origin
- Olivos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- theatre director / politician / film director / screenwriter / cinematographer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1972 Sutherland Trophy
- 1988 Cannes Best Director Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.