The Hour of the Furnaces

The Hour of the Furnaces (Spanish: La hora de los hornos) is a 1968 film directed by Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas. 'The paradigm of revolutionary activist cinema', it addresses the politics of the 'Third worldist' films and Latin-American manifesto of the late 1960s.

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• The hour of the furnaces 1968 part 1 neocolonialism and violence subs eng ita fra
• The hour of the furnaces 1968 part 2 act for liberation subs eng ita fra
• Reception
• Prizes
• References

Reception

Writing in the New York Times, critic Vincent Canby described the movie as "a unique film exploration of a nation's soul."

Prizes

Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Nuovo (Pesaro, Italy, 1968): Gran Premio de la Crítica

Festival Internacional de Manheim (West Germany, 1968): Premio del Publico; Premio FIPRESCI, Cines de Arte y Ensayo; Premio Ecuménico.

British Film Institute: Best Foreign Film (1974)

Crítica de Los Angeles: One of the Ten Best Films of the 1970s

Festival de Mérida (Venezuela, 1968): Best Film Prize

Semana de la crítica del Festival de Cannes (1969)

(Information from Fernando Solanas's official site.)