The First Foundation of Buenos Aires (1959)
In 1956, the humorous designer Oski made a work about the foundation of the city of Buenos Aires. Fernando Birri made a film from this work in 1959, using the original text of the German explorer Ulrich Schmidel. This film, which disappeared in the years of the dictatorship, was miraculously restored on video in 2000. The story that the documentary describes can be compared with the situation of Latin American cinema throughout all these years.
Director: Fernando Birri
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Raúl de Lange as Narrator |
| Directing | Fernando Birri | Director |
| Writing | Ulrich Schmidel | Book |
| Writing | Fernando Birri | Writer |
| Sound | Virtú Maragno | Music |
| Production | León Ferrari | Producer |
| Camera | Enrique Wallfisch | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Antonio Ripoll | Editor |
| Directing | Manuel Gimenez | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Leopoldo Orzali | Sound |
| Art | Ricardo Aronovich | Assistant Director of Photography |
| Directing | Adelqui Camusso | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Óscar Esparza | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Jorge Levilloti | Assistant Editor |
