Sergio Renán
Sergio Renán | |
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.jpg) Sergio Renán (left) | |
| Born | Samuel Kohan 30 January 1933 |
| Died | 13 June 2015 (aged 82) Buenos Aires |
| Occupation(s) | Film director Screenwriter Actor |
| Years active | 1951 – 2007 |
Sergio Renán (30 January 1933 – 13 June 2015) was an
.Biography
Born Samuel Kohan in
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first Argentine film so honored.[1]
This success was followed by another adaptation of a novel, Crecer de golpe (Growing Up Suddenly, 1976), based on
El Poder de las tinieblas, a dark film with political undertones, telling the story of a man ( Renán) who has discovered a global conspiracy against blind people. Then, in 1980, he directed and took the lead role in Sentimental, and received his first Konex Award (the highest in the Argentine cultural realm), the following year.[1] The film was also entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.[2]
He starred as himself in
Madame Butterfly (1989), Così fan tutte (1990), and The Marriage of Figaro (1991-92); he also made his experience as a violinist amenable as part the Konex Foundation's classical music jury in 1989, and in 1995, he was appointed music director of the Colón Theatre.[1]
He was reunited with Eduardo Calcagno in a supporting, semi-autobiographical role as a director struggling with official interference in Calcagno's surreal, 1995 tragedy, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's Enigma Variations, and adapted Spanish writer Juan José Millás' La soledad era esto (This Was Solitude) for a 2002 film release.[4]
He returned to film in 2007 as co-screenwriter and director of Juan José Saer's erotic thriller, Tres de corazones (Three of Hearts). Renán died in Buenos Aires in 2015; he was 82.[5]
References
- ^ a b c "Sergio Renán". Fundación Konex.
- ^ "12th Moscow International Film Festival (1981)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 2013-01-27.
- ^ "Donde está el director?". La Nación. 31 December 2000.
- ^ "Renán vuelve al teatro". La Nación. 20 July 2001.
- ^ "'La Tregua' director Sergio Renán dies". Buenos Aires Herald. 13 June 2015.
External links
- Sergio Renán at IMDb
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