Directing

Manuel Antín

Born February 27, 1926 · Las Palmas, Chaco, Argentina

Died September 5, 2024 · aged 98

Manuel Carlos Antín (b. February 27, 1926) was an Argentine novelist, playwright, poet and film director. He was mainly known for his cinematographic career, during which he made 11 fiction feature films, between 1960 and 1982, among which Odd number and Don Segundo Sombra stand out.

Known For

The Other Summer

The Other Summer · 2018

The Other Summer

Rodrigo lives in Córdoba. He runs and manages his dad's cabins for tourists. Summer is around the corner. One day he meets seventeen year old Juan, who has just arrived into town all the way from Buenos Aires.

Historias Breves 0: El artista peripatético

Historias Breves 0: El artista peripatético · 1993

Historias Breves 0: El artista peripatético

MovieDocumentary

Carlos Iraldi is a doctor, but his knowledge and above all his enormous curiosity have led him to stand out in different branches of art such as writing, painting and photography. His fame, however, is due to the ingenious instruments he invented and which have served as support for several shows by the Les Luthiers ensemble.

Mercano the Martian

Mercano the Martian · 2002

Mercano the Martian

MovieAnimationComedy

When his pet is killed by a probe from earth, Mercano, a Martian, travels to earth angered. Landing in Buenos Aires, at first noone takes any notice of him.

Psique y Sexo

Psique y Sexo · 1965

MovieDramaComedy

A movie in four parts. A frustrated woman finds love with a painter ("La estrella del destino"). A woman tries to seduce her subordinate when she takes him to her apartment ("La buscona"). A woman who killed her husband falls in love with the gravedigger ("La necrófila"). The sexual awakening of two teenagers and the reaction of their parents ("Chicos jugando al deseo") .

Don Segundo Sombra

Don Segundo Sombra · 1969

Don Segundo Sombra

MovieDramaWestern

The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the fields, alongside his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a lonely gaucho whom he admires and from whom he will learn to be a gaucho, following him in all his adventures. Don Segundo will be Fabio's role model.

Adán Buenosayres. La película

Adán Buenosayres. La película · 2016

Adán Buenosayres. La película

MovieDocumentaryDrama

Between documentary and fiction scenes, Juan Villegas inquires about Adán Buenosayres, Leopoldo Marechal’s iconic novel.

Crane World

Crane World · 1999

The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.

El sueño del perro

El sueño del perro · 2008

El sueño del perro

The path of a man to restart his life after a personal tragedy that leads him to leave the city and move to an inhospitable place that allows him to be reborn.

Filmography

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The Other Summer

The Other Summer · 2018

The Other Summer

Rodrigo lives in Córdoba. He runs and manages his dad's cabins for tourists. Summer is around the corner. One day he meets seventeen year old Juan, who has just arrived into town all the way from Buenos Aires.

Thanks

Historias Breves 0: El artista peripatético

Historias Breves 0: El artista peripatético · 1993

Historias Breves 0: El artista peripatético

MovieDocumentary

Carlos Iraldi is a doctor, but his knowledge and above all his enormous curiosity have led him to stand out in different branches of art such as writing, painting and photography. His fame, however, is due to the ingenious instruments he invented and which have served as support for several shows by the Les Luthiers ensemble.

Technical Supervisor

Mercano the Martian

Mercano the Martian · 2002

Mercano the Martian

MovieAnimationComedy

When his pet is killed by a probe from earth, Mercano, a Martian, travels to earth angered. Landing in Buenos Aires, at first noone takes any notice of him.

Sr Tecnología

Psique y Sexo

Psique y Sexo · 1965

MovieDramaComedy

A movie in four parts. A frustrated woman finds love with a painter ("La estrella del destino"). A woman tries to seduce her subordinate when she takes him to her apartment ("La buscona"). A woman who killed her husband falls in love with the gravedigger ("La necrófila"). The sexual awakening of two teenagers and the reaction of their parents ("Chicos jugando al deseo") .

Director

Don Segundo Sombra

Don Segundo Sombra · 1969

Don Segundo Sombra

MovieDramaWestern

The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the fields, alongside his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a lonely gaucho whom he admires and from whom he will learn to be a gaucho, following him in all his adventures. Don Segundo will be Fabio's role model.

Director

Adán Buenosayres. La película

Adán Buenosayres. La película · 2016

Adán Buenosayres. La película

MovieDocumentaryDrama

Between documentary and fiction scenes, Juan Villegas inquires about Adán Buenosayres, Leopoldo Marechal’s iconic novel.

Crane World

Crane World · 1999

The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.

Thanks

El sueño del perro

El sueño del perro · 2008

El sueño del perro

The path of a man to restart his life after a personal tragedy that leads him to leave the city and move to an inhospitable place that allows him to be reborn.

Thanks

We Are the Best

We Are the Best · 1968

We Are the Best

A group of porteños attend the grand final between Manchester and Estudiantes.

Producer

Intimidad de los parques

Intimidad de los parques · 1965

Intimidad de los parques

Two men and a beautiful woman are involved in a three-way relationship during a trip to Machu Picchu.

Director

Allá lejos y hace tiempo

Allá lejos y hace tiempo · 1978

Allá lejos y hace tiempo

While growing up on the pampas, a young boy becomes fascinated with nature and the mysteries of the human soul.

Director

The Venerable Ones

The Venerable Ones · 1963

The Venerable Ones

Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader, Lucas, and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love begins to delve into the macabre logic of the group.

Director

Odd Number

Odd Number · 1962

MovieDramaMystery

Two brothers quarrel for the love of a woman. One of them falls ill and dies; the other one marries her. The couple’s relationship falters in Paris due to the involvement of a reproaching mother, who still acts as if the dead brother were alive and living with her.

Director

Juan Manuel de Rosas

Juan Manuel de Rosas · 1972

Juan Manuel de Rosas

The political career of Juan Manuel de Rosas, twice Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires (1829-1832 and 1835-1852), who also ruled the Argentine Confederation during his second term in office.

Director

Punishment to the Traitor

Punishment to the Traitor · 1966

Punishment to the Traitor

A casual monitoring becomes an obsession when a young man finds a man who reminds him of something that happened in his childhood.

Director

Che: muerte de la utopia?

Che: muerte de la utopia? · 1999

Che: muerte de la utopia?

MovieDocumentary

What does Che Guevara"s mythic presence represent to people at the turn of the century, and how do people define their concept of utopia?

Ana and the Others

Ana and the Others · 2004

Ana and the Others

Twenty-something Ana, now living in Buenos Aires, returns to her native city of Paraná. She meets old school mates, old friends, makes new ones, and starts to rethink her life, and perhaps change her future.

Thanks

Circe

Delia Mañara is notorious in her quarter of Buenos Aires for the mysterious deaths of two of her fiancés. She lives in a twilight world and gains most satisfaction through the exercise of power over others.

Director

La sartén por el mango

La sartén por el mango · 1972

La sartén por el mango

While a bachelor party is being held in an apartment, the death of one of the hired girls exposes the fears of men.

Writer

Historias Breves II: Alma Zen

Historias Breves II: Alma Zen · 1997

Historias Breves II: Alma Zen

A group of friends transform into ninjas when a curious situation arises.

Thanks

La Invitación

La Invitación · 1982

Director

The Generation of ‘60s. The Unknown Friendship

The Generation of ‘60s. The Unknown Friendship · 2024

The Generation of ‘60s. The Unknown Friendship

MovieDocumentary

The differences of origin and poetics between José Martínez Suárez and Manuel Antin, representatives of the cinema of the ‘60s’ Generation, are proof of the heterogeneity of the period and, at the same time, share the creation of a renovating and personal aesthetic that observes reality with a critical eye.

Life in the Dark

Life in the Dark · 2023

Life in the Dark

MovieDocumentary

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.

Thanks

Luz, cámara, acción

Luz, cámara, acción · 1959

Luz, cámara, acción

MovieDocumentary

Short film about the making of "El candidato".

Writer