Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
112
Gender
Male
Birthday
1936-02-16
Day of Death
2020-11-06 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Also Known As
Pino Solanas
Fernando Solanas
Fernando Ezequiel Solanas
Fernando E. Solanas
Biography
Fernando Ezequiel 'Pino' Solanas was an Argentine film director, screenwriter 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. In 2019, following the end of his term as senator, he was appointed as Argentina's ambassador to UNESCO; he served in the position until his death in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, on 6 November 2020. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
