Favio: Chronicle of a Director (2015)

8.0/10 120 min Documentary

Overview

There are very few icons in Argentine culture capable of appealing to both popular and elitist tastes. Leonardo Favio was undoubtedly one of them. An unseasonable Peronist attached to the liturgy of his land, the director, born in the province of Mendoza, was and artist at every craft. a Renassaince man, but above all, a filmmaker. This is how "Favio: Chronicle of a Director" recaptures him, as a man of film who fed from radio, acting, music and painting in order to build up the handful of rhapsodies with which he adorned argentinean cinematography

Cast

Graciela Borges

Herself

Juan José Camero

Himself

Edgardo Nieva

Himself

Diego Puente

Himself

Juan José Stagnaro

Himself

Eliseo Subiela

Himself

Jorge Zuhair Jury

Himself

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