Edgardo Cozarinsky

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Edgardo Cozarinsky

Edgardo Cozarinsky (Argentina, 1939) is a writer and filmmaker. In 2021, he received the Lifetime Achievement Recognition at the Mar del Plata Film Festival. He directed Nocturnos (2011) and Letter to a Father (2013).

Known For

Short MemoryShort Memory · 1982
Short Memory
★ 5.31982
MovieThrillerDrama
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.
Red SunsetRed Sunset · 2004
Red Sunset
★ 6.22004
MovieDrama
Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to Paris to start a new life. His only possession is a painting which his father left him, along with the advice: "If you ever need to sell the painting, do so in France, where it's worth a fortune." But Michel discovers that his father's tumultuous and secret past comes along with the valuable painting. Meanwhile, Clara, a middle age Spanish-Argentine mother gets a strange present from a now dying childhood friend in Buenos Aires. It's a roll of Super 8 film which brings back very strong, and emotionally charged memories from the 1970s and before.
Private FictionPrivate Fiction · 2020
Private Fiction
★ 10.02020
MovieDocumentary
Over several days and nights, an actor and an actress read the correspondence between Torcuato and Kamala, the film director's parents, he from Argentina, and she from India. The letters, encompassing the decades from the 50s to the 70s, refer to love and idealism, record world travels, talk about socialism and psychoanalysis, about pain and broken dreams. Their reading reveals a relationship between the actors, with similarities and differences. Meanwhile, with his own daughter, the director sets about solving the puzzle of the family memory, an intimate twentieth-century tale.
Night WatchNight Watch · 2005
Night Watch
★ 5.72005
MovieDrama
A long night's journey into day: Victor, a street hustler in the Santa Fe and Pueyrredón neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, from the evening of November 1, All Saints Day, to the dawn of November 2, All Souls Day. Victor's odyssey takes him from clients to friends to a gay gym then a hotel room and an all-night café. He plays pick-up soccer with kids whose parents are going through trash or waiting in parks. A vendor gives him a chrysanthemum. It seems he's being followed, and on the night streets, death is close at hand. Can Victor survive until dawn?
La Barraca. Lorca por los caminos de EspañaLa Barraca. Lorca por los caminos de España · 1994
La Barraca. Lorca por los caminos de España
★ 10.01994
MovieDocumentaryHistory
In 1931, Federico García Lorca was appointed director of the student theatre company Teatro Universitario "La Barraca" ('The Shack'). Funded by the Ministry of Education of the Second Republic, the company was tasked with touring rural areas of Spain to introduce audiences to classical Spanish theatre at no cost. Utilizing a portable stage and minimal equipment, the troupe aimed to bring theatrical performance to populations with no prior exposure, with García Lorca serving as both director and actor.
Beto Nervio contra el poder de las tinieblasBeto Nervio contra el poder de las tinieblas · 1978
Beto Nervio contra el poder de las tinieblas
★ 7.01978
MovieCrime
A comic strip detective and a superhero are hired to investigate separatedly the successive murders of CEOs within a real life corporation symbolizing a nation, while subversive groups and members of the establishment lead a war for power.
La civilización está haciendo masa y no deja oírLa civilización está haciendo masa y no deja oír · 1974
La civilización está haciendo masa y no deja oír
★ 6.21974
MovieComedy
A Movie ManA Movie Man · 2022
A Movie Man
★ 7.02022
MovieDocumentary
The political history of Argentine film censorship narrated through the professional career of Néstor Gaffet (1928-1982), lawyer, film distributor and producer, publicist, occasional screenwriter, critic and teacher.

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Citizen LangloisCitizen Langlois · 1995
Citizen Langlois
★ 6.21995
MovieDocumentary
This French documentary pays homage to a young man whose passion left a rich and valuable legacy to the world of cinema. Henri Langlois was one of the co-founders of the Cinematheque Francaise, a museum which contains many rare artifacts from early cinema as well as one of the most extensive film archives in the world. This documentary will be most meaningful for those already familiar with Langlois' story. Through old film clips and interviews, Langlois is seen as an eccentric but charismatic young visionary obsessed with preserving and locating old films. Filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky uses scenes from Citizen Kane to compare the portly iconoclast to Charles Foster Kane, in that both Langlois and Welle's fictional newspaper magnate where avid collectors, and both were men of mystery.

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