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The Hour of the Furnaces is a 1968 Argentine film directed by Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas. 'The paradigm of revolutionary activist cinema', it addresses the politics of the 'Third worldist' films and Latin-American manifesto of the late 1960s. It is a key part of the 'Third Cinema', a movement that emerged in Latin America around the same time as the film's release. The work is a four-hour trilogy, divided into chapters and united by the theme of dependency and liberation. The first part - "Neo-Colonialism and Violence" - is conceived for diffusion in all types of circuits, and is the one presented at Cannes Classics.
Original Release
09/08/1968
US Release
02/25/1971
Cast
Name | Character |
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María de la Paz | Narrator |
Fernando E. Solanas | Narrator |
Edgardo Suárez | Narrator |
Julio Troxler | Self |
Fidel Castro | Self / Himself (archive footage) |
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara | Self / Himself (archive footage) |
Zedong Mao | Self |
Eva Perón | Self |
Juan Domingo Perón | Self / Himself (archive footage) |
Directors
Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas
Writers
Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas
Cast
Name | Character |
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María de la Paz | Narrator |
Fernando E. Solanas | Narrator |
Edgardo Suárez | Narrator |
Julio Troxler | Self |
Fidel Castro | Self / Himself (archive footage) |
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara | Self / Himself (archive footage) |
Zedong Mao | Self |
Eva Perón | Self |
Juan Domingo Perón | Self / Himself (archive footage) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Fernando E. Solanas | Producer |
Edgardo Pallero | Producer |