The Hour of the Furnaces

The Hour of the Furnaces
Directed by Octavio Getino
Fernando Solanas
Narrated by María de la Paz
Fernando Solanas
Edgardo Suárez
Release dates
  • 1968 (1968)
Running time
260 minutes
Country Argentina
Language Spanish

The Hour of the Furnaces (Spanish: La hora de los hornos) is a 1968 film directed by Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas. 'The paradigm of revolutionary activist cinema',[1] it addresses the politics of the 'Third worldist' films and Latin-American manifesto of the late 1960s.

Reception

Writing in the New York Times, critic Vincent Canby described the movie as "a unique film exploration of a nation's soul."[2]

Prizes

(Information from Fernando Solanas's official site.)

References

  1. Sight and Sound
  2. Vincent Canby, "La Hora de Los Hornos (1968): Argentine Epic." New York Times (February 26, 1971). http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9906E0DB1530E73BBC4E51DFB466838A669EDE

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