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The Hour of the Furnaces

La hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios sobre el neocolonialismo, la violencia y la liberación

Argentina

1968

260 Min
Black and White
1.33:1
Spanish, English, Portuguese
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DIR Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas

PROD Edgardo Pallero, Fernando E. Solanas

SCR Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas

DP Juan Carlos Desanzo, Fernando E. Solanas

CAST María de la Paz, Fernando E. Solanas, Edgardo Suárez

ED Juan Carlos Macías, Antonio Ripoll, Norma Torrado

MUSIC Roberto Lar, Fernando E. Solanas

SOUND Octavio Getino, Abelardo Kuschnir, Anibal Libenson

Cannes (Semaine de la critique), Mar del Plata

Synopsis

Film in three segments: 1. Neocolonialism; 2. Act for liberation; 3. Violence and liberation. A documentary about the revolutionary movement in Argentina from 1819 to the present day. –BFI

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Fernando E. Solanas

During the ’60s and ’70s, filmmaker Fernando E. Solanas was an influential figure in the promotion of radical, Leftist Argentine cinema. Before becoming a director, Solanas was involved with theater, music, and law. He also had experience working as a journalist and in the advertising field. In 1962, he produced and directed his first film. In 1966, Solanas teamed up with the Cine Liberacion collective and with Octavio Getino, secretly made one of the most powerful documentary films ever made, La Hora de los Hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces). Running at four hours, the film rallied in support of Perón; via archival footage, collages, poetry, interviews, and drama, the documentary attempted to incite passive audiences to take action against political injustice. Shown in secret and riddled with periodic breaks to allow audiences to actively discuss the film, La Hora de los Hornos is considered a seminal work in what became known as Third Cinema, a style of filmmaking that eschewed the… read more

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Garth Heutel

11May12

All three parts are now on Youtube.

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homo superior

11Mar12

So I can't watch an Argentine film while living in Argentina? O Copy Right, Thou art broken.

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    Bleu Poster

    29Mar12

    It's a bit of slap in the face for this film to be copy righted at all.

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Gondo

7Feb12

As someone with little knowledge of this particular time in Latin-Americas History the quite expansive exposition in the first hour was in all honesty a little bit overwhelming at first. Same goes for the transportation of the message where the word "propaganda" comes to mind. But thats the whole point, the Hour of the Furnaces is a machine gun aimed at your chest, ready to fire, hit and affect you. And it worked!

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adrianmendizabal

31Oct11

One outstanding 4-hr documentary film about the struggle of Latin American in fighting imperialistic and neocolonialistic forces. Its exposition of the history of civil resistance in the region is immensely detailed and ideologically grounded exposing fist hand accounts of impunity, violence and overt oppression of Argentine government. Truly the leading film of the Third cinema movement!

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By Lefteri​s Becerra on July 11, 2009

impresionante puesta en escena cinematográfica de un discurso político radical que para desgracia de latinoamérica, sigue vigente… la audacia de su edición está muy por encima del documental medio…  read review

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