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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fernando Solanas has received more than 155,732 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Fernando Solanas is the 514th most popular film director (down from 462nd in 2019), the 178th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 134th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Argentinean Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Fernando Solanas ranks 514 out of 2,041Before him are Alessandro Blasetti, Lee Chang-dong, Richard Boleslawski, Ted Kotcheff, Sam Wood, and Clarence Brown. After him are Boris Barnet, Mike Leigh, Néstor Almendros, James Wong, Luis García Berlanga, and Claude Autant-Lara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Fernando Solanas ranks 187Before him are Volodymyr Holubnychy, Santos Abril y Castelló, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Vyacheslav Kebich, Michel Jazy, and Han Seung-soo. After him are Antonio María Rouco Varela, Joe Don Baker, Koji Sasaki, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Hazem El Beblawi, and Stefano Delle Chiaie. Among people deceased in 2020, Fernando Solanas ranks 180Before him are Bernard Stiegler, Linda Cristal, Pierre Buyoya, Stanisław Kania, Sergio Rossi, and Vyacheslav Kebich. After him are John Hume, Trini Lopez, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, and Terry Goodkind.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Fernando Solanas ranks 178 out of 1,154Before him are Juan Ramón Verón (1944), Eduardo Lonardi (1896), Fernando Muslera (1986), Raúl Prebisch (1901), Francisco Moreno (1852), and Mario Evaristo (1908). After him are Alejandro de Tomaso (1928), Esteban Cambiasso (1980), Pablo Aimar (1979), Rafael Grossi (1961), Susana Giménez (1944), and Roberto M. Levingston (1920).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Argentina

Among film directors born in Argentina, Fernando Solanas ranks 3Before him are Gaspar Noé (1963), and Héctor Babenco (1946). After him are Luis Puenzo (1946), Fernando Birri (1925), Juan José Campanella (1959), María Luisa Bemberg (1922), Nelly Kaplan (1931), Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (1924), Lucrecia Martel (1966), Andy Muschietti (1973), and Damián Szifron (1975).