Sur (film)
| Sur | |
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| Directed by | Fernando E. Solanas |
| Written by | Fernando E. Solanas |
| Produced by | Fernando E. Solanas Envar El Kadri Pierre Novat Patricia Novat |
| Starring | Susú Pecoraro Miguel Ángel Solá Philippe Léotard Lito Cruz |
| Cinematography | Félix Monti |
| Edited by | Juan Carlos Macías |
| Music by | Ástor Piazzolla Fernando E. Solanas |
| Distributed by | Argentina Sono Film |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
Sur (South) is a 1988 Argentine drama film written and directed by Fernando E. Solanas. The film features Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, Lito Cruz, Ulises Dumont among others.
Following its debut at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, Sur collected a host of awards from prestigious international film festivals. Sur garnered its director, Fernando E. Solanas the Best Director at Cannes in 1988 and was nominated for the Palme d'Or in the same year. The film was selected to be screened in the Cannes Classics section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 33rd position. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 40th position.