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'Soriano' is a biographical documentary by Eduardo Montes-Bradley exploring the life and works of Osvaldo Soriano, author of Funny Dirty Little War through testimonies of friends and family in Argentina, France, Belgium, Germany, and Italy.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304143/International Movie Data Base] The documentary includes rare 16mm footage filmed by Soriano and friends in his hometown of Tandil in the early 1960s. Part of this original footage was used by the director to reconstruct a short film as it was scripted by a young Osvaldo Soriano. The show film is now on the permanent collection of several university libraries.[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884923025 World Cat. Cortometraje de Osvaldo Soriano]

'Soriano' was filmed in several locations including Milan, Rome, Paris, Linz am Rhein, Brussels, and Buenos Aires, and includes interviews with Osvaldo Bayer, Hctor Olivera, Gianni Min, Franco Lucentini, Federico Luppi, Eduardo Galeano, Fernando Birri and others.[http://www.pagina12.com.ar/1999/99-04/99-04-23/pag31.htm Bernardez, Horacio. Pgina/12. Buenos Aires, April 23, 1999]

'Soriano' theatrical release was followed by the publication of a collection of testimonies in the essay Soriano: Un RetratoGrupo Editorial Norma, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2000. Sperling & Kupfer Editori, Milan, Italy, 2001, 164pp containing the entire original interviews, including the fragments that did not make it to the final cut.Aguilar, Gonzalo. New Argentine Film. Palgrave Macmillan, Mar 15, 2011 - Drama - 320 pages 'Soriano'' was later published on DVD by Noticias.

Awards and honors



* Official Selection, XIII Festival del Cinema Latino Americano. Trieste, October 1998XIII Festival del Cinema Latino Americano. Programa Di Sala. Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires.

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