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Roque Funes

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Roque Funes
Roque Funes in the 1950s
Born1 December 1897
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died15 June 1981(1981-06-15) (aged 83)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
OccupationsCinematographer
Film Director
Years active1921–1964
Notable workLa Gaucha (1921), Con la música en el alma (1951)

Roque Funes (1 December 1897 – 15 June 1981 in Buenos Aires) was the most prolific Argentine cinematographer in the history of the Cinema of Argentina whose career spanned over 40 years of cinema. Funes is also regarded as a pioneer war correspondent in Latin America for his documentary film En el infierno del Chaco ("In the Hell of Chaco").[1]

Funes began his career in 1921 with director José A. Ferreyra in La Gaucha, working extensively with Ferreyra on films that followed such as Buenos Aires, ciudad de ensueño (1922), La Leyenda del puente inca (1923) and Odio serrano (1924).

In July 1932, Funes traveled to Paraguay, where he recorded the mobilization of Paraguayan troops to face the Bolivian Army during the first stages of the Chaco War, in the course of the battle of Boqueron. Back in Buenos Aires in September, he selected and edited the footage, added explanatory notes and maps, and assembled it into the documentary En el infierno del Chaco in what became his only experience as film director.[2]

In 1939 Funes was the photography director in Edmundo Guibourg's adaptation of Federico García Lorca's Bodas de sangre and Amor. Funes also worked on Capitán Veneno in 1943 and Albergue de mujeres in 1946.

The successful Con la música en el alma was released in 1951 and he worked on the Bárbara atómica film in 1952. His last film was Venus perseguida before his retirement as a cinematographer in 1964.

He died on 15 June 1981 in Buenos Aires aged 83.

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  1. ↑ Castro, Pablo Calvo de (1 January 2019). "Roque Funes, un pionero del reporterismo de guerra. Reflexiones en torno a En el infierno del Chaco (1932)". El cine como reflejo de la historia, de la literatura y del arte en la filmografía hispano- brasileña (in Spanish).
  2. ↑ Manrupe, Raúl; Portela, María Alejandra (2001). Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995). Buenos Aires: Editorial Corregidor. p. 201. ISBN 950-05-0896-6.
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