FILM DIRECTOR

Fernando Solanas

1936 - 2020

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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), El viaje (1992), La nube (1998) and Memoria del saqueo (2004), among many others. He was National Senator representing the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires for six years, from 2013 to 2019. Solanas studied theatre, music, and law. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fernando Solanas is the 519th most popular film director (down from 514th in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from Argentina (down from 178th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Argentinean Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Fernando Solanas ranks 519 out of 2,041. Before him are Mike Leigh, Don Bluth, Louis Feuillade, Michel Gondry, Mika Kaurismäki, and Grigori Aleksandrov. After him are Gerard Damiano, Nicolas Roeg, Mikhail Romm, Claude Goretta, Sergio Sollima, and John Milius.

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Among people born in 1936, Fernando Solanas ranks 207. Before him are John P. Ryan, Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Paul Shenar, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, and Antonio López García. After him are Annette Stroyberg, Trevor Taylor, Philip Kaufman, Reiner Klimke, Boniface Alexandre, and Mary Tyler Moore. Among people deceased in 2020, Fernando Solanas ranks 199. Before him are Zizi Jeanmaire, Jean Raspail, Sisavath Keobounphanh, Joachim Yhombi-Opango, Pietro Anastasi, and Muhammad Mustafa Mero. After him are Ang Rita, Harry Gregg, Lee Konitz, Peter Sutcliffe, Terry Goodkind, and Duje Bonačić.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Fernando Solanas ranks 183 out of 1,154. Before him are José Pékerman (1949), Luis Artime (1938), José Della Torre (1906), Mauro Camoranesi (1976), Raúl Prebisch (1901), and Esteban Cambiasso (1980). After him are María Elena Walsh (1930), Pablo Aimar (1979), Roque Sáenz Peña (1851), Luis Héctor Villalba (1934), Fernando Muslera (1986), and Carmelo Simeone (1934).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Argentina

Among film directors born in Argentina, Fernando Solanas ranks 3. Before him are Héctor Babenco (1946), and Gaspar Noé (1963). After him are Luis Puenzo (1946), Andy Muschietti (1973), Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (1924), María Luisa Bemberg (1922), Fernando Birri (1925), Nelly Kaplan (1931), Juan José Campanella (1959), Lucrecia Martel (1966), and Sebastián Lelio (1974).

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