Invasión
Sign in to saveInvasión is an Argentine science fiction mystery film released in 1969 and directed by Hugo Santiago and written by Santiago together with Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Widely regarded as an important cult film, its style is considered as intermediate between classic cinema and the French nouvelle vague.
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7.3Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders.
Released: 1969-10-16123 minDir: Hugo SantiagoDrama, Science Fiction
Cast
- Lautaro Murúa as Herrera
- Juan Carlos Paz as Don Porfirio
- Olga Zubarry as Irene
- Martín Adjemián as Irala
- Daniel Fernández as Lebendiger
- Roberto Villanueva as Silva
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Key dates
- Published
- 1 January 1968
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- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- science fiction film
- Country of origin
- Argentina
- Original language
- Spanish
- Main subject
- siege
- Director
- Hugo Santiago
- Screenwriter
- Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Composer
- Aníbal Troilo
- Producer
- Hugo Santiago
- Cinematographer
- Ricardo Aronovich
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Invasión is an Argentine science fiction mystery film released in 1969 and directed by Hugo Santiago and written by Santiago together with Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Widely regarded as an important cult film, its style is considered as intermediate between classic cinema and the French nouvelle vague.
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 38th 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 2nd position.
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1960s avant-garde and experimental films1960s rediscovered films1969 films1969 independent films1969 science fiction films1969 Spanish-language filmsArgentine black-and-white filmsArgentine independent filmsArgentine political drama filmsDystopian filmsFilms directed by Hugo SantiagoFilms shot in Buenos Aires