Hugo Santiago

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Hugo Santiago Muchnick (12 December 1939 – 27 February 2018) was an Argentine film director.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and lived in France from 1959 until his death in 2018.

Santiago studied Literature, Philosophy and Music. From 1959-66 he was assistant director to

This was followed by another collaboration with the famed writers Les Autres in 1974. In 1979 he made Écoute voir... with Catherine Deneuve cast as a female detective investigating a gang looking to control people using radio waves. He returned to Argentina with Les Trottoirs de Saturne a reflection on his own exile in 1986. Prior to his feature film Le Loup de la côte Ouest (2002), a stylish detective thriller, he directed theatrical adaptations for the screen of Sophocles (Électre), Bertolt Brecht (La Vie de Galilée) and the Opera by Iannis Xenakis (La Geste gibelline).

Prior to directing in 1961 he was a choreographer and metteur en scene for

Death

Santiago died on 27 February 2018 at the age of 78 in Paris.

Filmography

• Invasión / Invasion (Argentina, 1969)
• Les Autres / The Others (France, 1974)
• Écoute voir / See Here My Love (France, 1979)
• Les Trottoirs de Saturne / The Sidewalks of Saturn (France/Argentina, 1986)
• Électre (France, 1987) TV
• La Geste gibelline (France/Argentina, 1988)
• La Vie de Galilée (France, 1992) TV
• Le Loup de la côte Ouest / The Wolf of the West Coast (France / Portugal / Argentina, 2002)
• El Cielo Del Centauro (2015)

Short Films:

• Los Contrabandistas (Buenos Aires, 1967)
• Los Taitas (Buenos Aires, 1968)

References

External links

• "El hombre que veía demasiado", 25 May 2003, pagina12.com.ar; accessed 27 February 2018.(in Spanish)
• Ruch, Allen B. (3 October 2019). "Borges Film – Invasión". Shipwreck Library: The Garden of Forking Paths.
• Ruch, Allen B. (1 October 2019). "Borges Film – Les Autres". Shipwreck Library: The Garden of Forking Paths.
• Clark, George. "Interview with Hugo Santiago". Video on Vimeo