Actor: Fernando Martín Peña

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Birthday: 1968-11-12
Born in: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Biography: Fernando Martín Peña is an Argentine teacher, film critic, researcher and collector. He has published several books on film topics since 1991. Since December 2006, he has been conducting "Filmoteca, temas de cine" at midnight on Argentine Public TV. As a researcher, Peña has been responsible for the recovery of several films that were deemed lost or incomplete, such as an unknown 16mm copy of the Fritz Lang classic film Metropolis.

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Gombrowicz or The Immaturity

A documentary of absurdist humor that delves into the immaturity of Witold Gombrowicz, the controversial Polish writer who lived in Argentina and wrote the first existentialist novel.
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Gombrowicz or The Immaturity

2024

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Another Cursed Movie

A history of Argentine horror cinema, from its beginnings in 1934 to present day. It is a path of defeat, dead-end streets and triumphs, where the protagonists will lead us through the lesser known hallways of local horror.
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Another Cursed Movie

2023

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Voyage to 'Metropolis'

A documentary about the making of the final version of "Metropolis" by restoring all material from different sources.
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Voyage to 'Metropolis'

2010

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Life in the Dark

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.
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Life in the Dark

2023

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An Important Premiere

For many years, Buenos Aires, Argentina, was one of the best places in the world for a film buff; but from the mid-sixties onwards, successive authoritarian governments shaped the will of the spectators, dictating what could be seen and what could not, so that the true cinema lovers, in their desire to watch films, had no choice but to embark on the most extraordinary and strange adventures.
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An Important Premiere

2015

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