Hugo Santiago
Director · 1939 – 2018 · Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Hugo Santiago Muchnick was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and lived in France from 1959 until his death in 2018. He studied Literature, Philosophy and Music. From 1959-66 he was assistant director to Robert Bresson. In 1969, he made his first feature film Invasión in his native Argentina based on an idea by celebrated writers Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges, who also co-wrote the script. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movies6
Movie7.1AdventureFantasyShortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story.
Movie5.5ComedyDramaFeminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political aim and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, greed, gold treasures left by the Jesuits in Argentina, the 19th Century vs. the contemporary and the search for truth and wisdom are the background for this portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentine film director.
Movie6.4CrimeDramaA charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.
Movie7.0DocumentaryAquilea: Nueve pequeños films sobre 'Invasión'
2008 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DocumentaryIn 1969 Argentine filmmaker Hugo Santiago directed Invasión, his opera prima, written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and later settled in France. This film documents his return to Buenos Aires in 2013 to shoot his latest film, Le ciel du centaure.
Movie7.0DocumentaryHugo Santiago discusses the process of writing with Jorge Luis Borges the screenplay for the film Invasión (1969).
Borges/Santiago: variaciones sobre un guion
2008 · 1 votes