Octavio Getino

El familiar (1975)

A supernatural mythological being gives riches to those who agree with him at the cost of the lives of the subjects of the earth. ...

Perón: The Justicialist Revolution (1971)

Lengthy interviews, exclusive to this movie, with Juan Peron, describing his military career and the reforms he instituted as leader of the Argentine government. ...

Viejo Reales' Long Journey to Death (1971)

Documentary with staged events about a poor rural family in Argentina. ...

Perón: Political Update and Doctrine for the Seizure of Power (1971)

A series of interviews with Juan Domingo Perón in Madrid, where he was exiled. Filmed between June and October 1971, Perón talks about the current situation of the Justicialist movement and the steps to be taken to win the presidential elections again. ...

Argentina, mayo de 1969. Los caminos de la liberación (1969)

A collection of shorts, some documentary and some fictional, showing the political climate in Argentina during the military regime of the late 1960s. ...

Cineinforme n.1 de la CGT de los Argentinos (1969)

The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)

An impassioned three-part documentary of the liberation struggle waged throughout Latin America, using Argentina as a historical example of the imperialist exploitation of the continent. Part I: Neo-Colonialism and Violence is a historical, geographic, and ...

Chronicles of an Exile (2021)

Director Octavio Getino is exiled in Lima. Through letters, archive footage and the protagonist's voice, the feel tells of the director's vast life experience in an in-depth study where the biographical outline is offered as a footnote to recent Argentine ...

Donde comienza el camino (2005)

The journey of Fernando Birri, the great father of New Latin American Cinema, has left a mark that begins at the legendary Santa Fe Documentary School and continues to this day. His methods, influences, his founding role, his poetic-political commitment, a ...

La noche de las cámaras despiertas (2003)

The film tells how in 1970 a group of Argentine filmmakers - including Alberto Fischerman, Rafael Filippelli, Julio Ludueña, Miguel Bejo, Jorge Cedrón, Dody Scheuer and Luis Zanger - decided to make a short film each in one night. The occasion is perfect ...