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Héctor Olivera (film Director)
Héctor Olivera (born 5 April 1931) is an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter. Olivera worked mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but also has directed or contributed to several films made for the United States market. Biography He began his career when he was seventeen as a second assistant director and founded his own production company in 1956 at age twenty-five. He has produced over 100 features. In the United States he is known for two of his films: '' Night of the Pencils'' (1986) and ''Funny Dirty Little War'' (1983). After completing ''Funny Dirty Little War'', he directed five films for Roger Corman: ''Cocaine Wars'' (1985), ''Barbarian Queen'' (1985), ''Wizards of the Lost Kingdom'' (1985), '' Two to Tango'' (1988), and ''Play Murder for Me'' (1990). He has occasionally received criticism for his choice of projects. While he has been recognized for delivering poignant political messages in some of his films he has also directed much more commercial fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivos, Buenos Aires
Olivos is a neighborhood in Vicente López Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is bordered to the south by Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Vicente López neighborhood and Florida Este, Buenos Aires, Florida; to the east by the Río de la Plata, River Plate; to the north by La Lucila and Martínez, Buenos Aires, Martínez, and to the west by Munro, Buenos Aires, Munro. Olivos is the municipal seat of Vicente López Partido, and it is also seat of the Quinta de Olivos, Argentina presidencial residence. History A well-known stop along the Buenos Aires-Cordoba, Argentina, Córdoba trade route for much of the 18th century, one of the area's first landowners, Domingo de Acassuso, began cultivating olive trees around 1720 and the spot was officially named ''Olivos'' ("Olive Trees") on 19 February 1770. Much of the area was later purchased by Viceroy Antonio de Olaguer y Feliú and by a German settlement in Argentina, German immigrant, Hernán Wineberg, who sold a large tract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primero Yo
''Me First'' ( es, Primero yo) is a 1964 Argentine drama film directed by Fernando Ayala, and written by Héctor Olivera and Luis Pico Estrada. It was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. Cast *Alberto de Mendoza *Ricardo Areco *Eduardo Bergara Leumann (cameo) *Cristina Berys *Augusto Bonardo *Horacio Casals *Mirtha Dabner * Susana Freyre *Héctor Gance *Mario Lozano *Duilio Marzio *Carlos Muñoz *Esteban Nesich *Marilina Ross *Marcelo Simonetti *Mercedes Sombra *Juan Manuel Tenuta *María Vaner María Vaner (23 March 1935 – 21 July 2008) was an Argentine actress. She appeared in nearly 50 films and television shows between 1958 and 2008. The daughter of Pedro Aleandro, her sister was actress Norma Aleandro. She had two sons with ... *Soledad Vertiz References External links * 1964 films 1960s Spanish-language films 1964 drama films Argentine black-and-white films Films directed by Fernando Ayala Argentine drama films 1960s Argentine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A list of films produced in Argentina in 1993: External links and references Argentine films of 1993at the Internet Movie Database {{Filmsbycountry 1993 Argentine Films A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play Murder For Me
''Play Murder for Me''. also known as ''Negra medianoche'' ("Midnight Black" in English), is a 1990 Argentine-American crime drama film directed by Héctor Olivera and starring Jack Wagner, Tracy Scoggins, William Paul Burns, Rodolfo Ranni and Gerardo Romano. It was the last film in a series of 10 features that Roger Corman coproduced in Argentina in the mid-to-late 1980s.STAR TRACY SCOGGINS SEXY IN 'SPORTY' WAY: * EditionInwood, Damian. ''The Province'', 10 Dec 1990: 35. The screenplay was written by José Pablo Feinmann, with additional dialogue credited to Daryl Haney. Cast * Jack Wagner ... Paul Slater * Tracy Scoggins ... Tricia Merritt * William Paul Burns ... Fred Merritt (como William Burns) * Ivory Ocean ... Lou Venable * Rodolfo Ranni ... Stanislav Gregorius * Gerardo Romano ... Alejandro Molina * Jorge Rivera López ... Victor Silberman * Francisco Cocuzza ... A.J. Krieger * Maurice Jouvet ... Patrick * Manuel Vicente ... Phil Mendoza * Marcos Woinsky ... Sound & F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wizards Of The Lost Kingdom
''Wizards of the Lost Kingdom'' is a 1985 Argentine-American sword and sorcery film written by Ed Naha and directed by Héctor Olivera. It stars Bo Svenson as Kor the Conqueror, Vidal Peterson as Simon, and Thom Christopher as Shurka. The film is one of ten that Roger Corman produced in Argentina during the 1980s, beginning with ''Deathstalker'' in 1983. Cinematófilos.com.ar The sequel '''' followed in 1989. Plot In the peaceful kingdom o ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Nona
''Grandma'' ( es, La Nona) is a 1979 Argentine comedy drama film directed by Héctor Olivera and starring Pepe Soriano, Juan Carlos Altavista and Osvaldo Terranova. Synopsis A poor Argentine family of Italian origin lives with their grandmother Carmen, known by all as "La nona" (grandma in Italian). Despite her advanced age, La nona eats nonstop, while the family struggles with the bills and to feed her at the same time. La nona brings the family to the edge of ruin, whose members begins to look for the most diverse ways to earn money and eventually get rid of the old woman. Cast * Pepe Soriano as Carmen Racazzi, la Nona * Juan Carlos Altavista as Chicho Spadone * Osvaldo Terranova as Carmelo Spadone * Eva Franco as Anyula Spadone * Nya Quesada as María Spadone * Graciela Alfano as Marta "Martita" Spadone * Guillermo Battaglia as Don Francisco * Nelly Tesolín as Severe Nun * Oscar Nuñez as Luque * Pedro Martínez as Vicente * Vicente La Russa as Poroto * Amanda Beitia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tango Tells Its Story
''The Song Tells Its Story'' ( es, El canto cuenta su historia), sometimes ''The Tango Tells Its Story'', is a 1976 Argentine musical film directed by Fernando Ayala and Héctor Olivera. The film tells the history of song in Argentina, with a particular history of tango. The film was made during the period of the Argentine military dictatorship. The censorship of the regime forced Olivera and Ayala to cut scenes featuring the banned and exiled singer Mercedes Sosa.Jean Graham Jones, "Héctor Olivera", pp. 1764–1767 in, Derek Jones (ed), ''Censorship: A World Encyclopedia'', Routledge, 2001 . The film should not be confused with ''The Tango Tells its Story'', ( es, El tango cuenta su historia) released in 1914, a documentary history of the tango. Cast Musical performers Musicians performing in the film are: * Cayetano Daglio * Ángel Villoldo * Francisco Canaro * Carlos Gardel * Rosita Quiroga * Ignacio Corsini * Ada Falcón * Agustín Magaldi and Pedro Noda * Marta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24th Berlin International Film Festival
The 24th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June – 2 July 1974. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Canadian film '' The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' directed by Ted Kotcheff. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Rodolfo Kuhn, director and screenwriter (Argentina) - Jury President * Margaret Hinxmann, writer and film critic (United Kingdom) * Pietro Bianchi, journalist and film critic (Italy) * Gérard Ducaux-Rupp, producer (France) * Kurt Heinz, composer (West Germany) * Akira Iwasaki, historian and film critic (Japan) * Arthur Knight, historian and film critic (United States) * Manfred Purzer, director and screenwriter (West Germany) * Piet Ruivenkamp, film critic (Netherlands) Films in competition The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award: Out of competition * '' С тобой и без тебя S toboy i bez tebya'', directed by Rodion Nahapetov (Soviet Union) Key : A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Bear
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the " Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in France. Tens of thousands of visitors attend each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale juries also give many other awards, and in addition there are other awards given by i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osvaldo Bayer
Osvaldo Bayer (18 February 1927 – 24 December 2018) was an Argentine writer and journalist. He lived in Buenos Aires. In 1974, during the presidency of Isabel Perón, he went into exile, residing in Linz am Rhein, Germany, throughout the National Reorganization Process dictatorship (1976–1983).Fernando López TrujilloAn Interview with Osvaldo Bayer, Argentine Public Intellectual and Social Historian '' Perspectives on Anarchist Theory'', Vol. 5 - No. 2. Fall, 2001 Biography Osvaldo Bayer was a self-defined "ultra- pacifist anarchist". He was born in the capital city of Santa Fe, and grew up in Bernal and in the Belgrano neighborhood in the capital city of Buenos Aires. His parents lived in the Patagonian town of Rio Gallegos, an experience that would later become the inspiration for his '' Rebellion in Patagonia,'' a historical reconstruction of a massacre of striking rural workers. After having worked for an insurance firm and on the merchant marine as an apprentice he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Patagonia Rebelde
''Rebellion in Patagonia'' ( es, La Patagonia rebelde) is a 1974 Argentine drama-historical film directed by Héctor Olivera and starring Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, José Soriano and Federico Luppi. It was written by Olivera with Osvaldo Bayer and Fernando Ayala, based on Osvaldo Bayer's renowned novel '' Los vengadores de la Patagonia Trágica'' ("The Avengers of Tragic Patagonia"), which was based upon the military suppression of anarchist union movements in Santa Cruz Province in the early 1920s. It was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear. It was selected as the second greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll conducted by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 1984, while it ranked 3rd in the 2000 edition. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines ''La vida util'', ''Taipei'' and ''La tierra quema'', presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Venganzas De Beto Sánchez
''Las Venganzas de Beto Sánchez'' ( en, Beto Sanchez's Vendettas) is a 1973 Argentine dramatic comedy film directed by Héctor Olivera and starring Pepe Soriano, Federico Luppi, Irma Roy, China Zorrilla and Héctor Alterio. Plot A man named Beto Sánchez, seeing his father dying in hospital, decides to get revenge on those who according to him made his life worse: his elementary school teacher, his childhood friend, his first wife, his superior in the military service Military service is service by an individual or group in an army or other militia, air forces, and naval forces, whether as a chosen job (volunteer) or as a result of an involuntary draft (conscription). Some nations (e.g., Mexico) require a ... and his first job's boss. References External links * 1973 films Argentine comedy-drama films 1970s Spanish-language films Films directed by Héctor Olivera 1970s Argentine films {{1970s-Argentina-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
