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Fernando Birri

Fernando Birri

Actor · Director · Writer

Fernando Birri. Director: Die Überfluteten. Birri is known as the "Father of the New Latin American Cinema". He studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Roma, and after graduating returned to the province of Santa Fe in Argentina, where he founded the first film school specialized in documentary in Latin America. He was forced to exile due to the Argentinean military coup d'état, and lived in Italy where...

Fernando Birri. Director: Die Überfluteten. Birri is known as the "Father of the New Latin American Cinema". He studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Roma, and after graduating returned to the province of Santa Fe in Argentina, where he founded the first film school specialized in documentary in Latin America. He was forced to exile due to the Argentinean military coup d'état, and lived in Italy where...

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