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Manuel Antín

Manuel Antín

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Biography

Manuel Carlos Antín (b. February 27, 1926) was an Argentine novelist, playwright, poet and film director. He was mainly known for his cinematographic career, during which he made 11 fiction feature films, between 1960 and 1982, among which Odd number and Don Segundo Sombra stand out.

Known For

Don Segundo Sombra
5.8

The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the fields, alongside his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a lonely gaucho whom he admires and from whom he will learn to be a gaucho, following him in all his adventures. Don Segundo will be Fabio's role model.

Don Segundo Sombra

1969
Crane World
6.1

The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.

Crane World

1999
Historias Breves 0: El artista peripatético
6.5

Carlos Iraldi is a doctor, but his knowledge and above all his enormous curiosity have led him to stand out in different branches of art such as writing, painting and photography. His fame, however, is due to the ingenious instruments he invented and which have served as support for several shows by the Les Luthiers ensemble.

Historias Breves 0: El artista peripatético

1993
Mercano the Martian
6.2

When his pet is killed by a probe from earth, Mercano, a Martian, travels to earth angered. Landing in Buenos Aires, at first noone takes any notice of him.

Mercano the Martian

2002
Intimidad de los parques
5.5

Two men and a beautiful woman are involved in a three-way relationship during a trip to Machu Picchu.

Intimidad de los parques

1965
Punishment to the Traitor
7.5

A casual monitoring becomes an obsession when a young man finds a man who reminds him of something that happened in his childhood.

Punishment to the Traitor

1966
Psique y Sexo
4.5

A movie in four parts. A frustrated woman finds love with a painter ("La estrella del destino"). A woman tries to seduce her subordinate when she takes him to her apartment ("La buscona"). A woman who killed her husband falls in love with the gravedigger ("La necrófila"). The sexual awakening of two teenagers and the reaction of their parents ("Chicos jugando al deseo") .

Psique y Sexo

1965
Circe
5.8

Delia Mañara is notorious in her quarter of Buenos Aires for the mysterious deaths of two of her fiancés. She lives in a twilight world and gains most satisfaction through the exercise of power over others.

Circe

1964
Historias Breves II: Alma Zen
8.0

A group of friends transform into ninjas when a curious situation arises.

Historias Breves II: Alma Zen

1997
The Venerable Ones
6.4

Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader, Lucas, and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love begins to delve into the macabre logic of the group.

The Venerable Ones

1963
Odd Number
6.1

Two brothers quarrel for the love of a woman. One of them falls ill and dies; the other one marries her. The couple’s relationship falters in Paris due to the involvement of a reproaching mother, who still acts as if the dead brother were alive and living with her.

Odd Number

1962
Juan Manuel de Rosas
6.8

The political career of Juan Manuel de Rosas, twice Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires (1829-1832 and 1835-1852), who also ruled the Argentine Confederation during his second term in office.

Juan Manuel de Rosas

1972
Cortázar y Antín: cartas iluminadas
9.1

In the 60s and thanks to the epistolary exchange, the young filmmaker Manuel Antín and the famous writer Julio Cortázar devised four films. An ocean away, a fruitful collaboration and genuine friendship are born.

Cortázar y Antín: cartas iluminadas

2018
Che: muerte de la utopia?
7.0

What does Che Guevara"s mythic presence represent to people at the turn of the century, and how do people define their concept of utopia?

Che: muerte de la utopia?

1999
La Invitación
6.5

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La Invitación

1982
The Other Summer
4.4

Rodrigo lives in Córdoba. He runs and manages his dad's cabins for tourists. Summer is around the corner. One day he meets seventeen year old Juan, who has just arrived into town all the way from Buenos Aires.

The Other Summer

2018
Ana and the Others
6.4

Twenty-something Ana, now living in Buenos Aires, returns to her native city of Paraná. She meets old school mates, old friends, makes new ones, and starts to rethink her life, and perhaps change her future.

Ana and the Others

2004
El sueño del perro
N/A

The path of a man to restart his life after a personal tragedy that leads him to leave the city and move to an inhospitable place that allows him to be reborn.

El sueño del perro

2008
La sartén por el mango
4.4

While a bachelor party is being held in an apartment, the death of one of the hired girls exposes the fears of men.

La sartén por el mango

1972
Life in the Dark
6.3

It is an approach to the figure of Fernando Martín Peña, but it is also a film about cinema, about a transcendental movement in its history, its spaces and rituals.

Life in the Dark

2023