Person
Hugo Santiago
DirectorScreenwriterSet Designer
2 titles
- Date of Birth: 1939-12-12 (Passed away at age 78)
- Nationality:
Argentina·
France - Place of birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Hugo Santiago Muchnik (December 12, 1939 – February 27, 2018) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter, set designer, born in Buenos Aires. He lived and worked in France from 1959, where he studied and served as an assistant to Robert Bresson from 1959 to 1966.
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Hugo Santiago Muchnik (December 12, 1939 – February 27, 2018) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter, set designer, born in Buenos Aires. He lived and worked in France from 1959, where he studied and served as an assistant to Robert Bresson from 1959 to 1966. His best-known film is Invasión (1969), co-written with Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares and regarded as a landmark of Argentine cinema. His later work included Les Trottoirs de Saturne (1986), Le Loup de la Côte Ouest (2002), and El cielo del centauro (2015), his final feature.
