page_title: Eduardo Montes-Bradley
section_title: Latin American writers collection
hierarchical_section_title: Eduardo Montes-Bradley / Filmography / Latin American writers collection
caption_attribution_description: English: Ernesto Cardenal in Managua -the day after the attack on the World Trade Center- during the filming of “Cortázar: Apuntes para un documental” a film by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
context_page_description: Eduardo Montes-Bradley is an award-winning documentarian. In December 2019, the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires presented "From Here and There: A Montes-Bradley Retrospective”, including nineteen documentaries produced in Argentina, United States, Brazil and Germany between 1999 and 2019. Montes-Bradley's written essays have been translated and published by Random House, Sperling & Kupfer, Editorial Norma, and Editorial Sudamericana.
context_section_description: Ongoing biographical profiles on Latin American writers. At least sixteen films on Latin American Writers were produced under the auspice of Contrakultura Films, an imprint of Iruña Films and are listed on a separate entry. The Contrakultura catalog included biographical documentaries on Andrés Rivera, Héctor Tizón and Juan Filloy amongst others, was introduced by Eduardo Montes-Bradley at the Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting "Luso-Hispanic Presence in the Changing Cultural Landscape of America", organized by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. Other titles in the Latin American Writers Collection are:
  Cortázar: apuntes para un documental (Cortázar: Notes for a Documentary), approaches Julio Cortázar's political views, and perspectives on the Latin American Left. The film also presents an original perspective on the relationship between the author and Carole Dunlop in Paris. Moments of this relationship are vividly recalled through the use of homemade movies made by the celebrated couple. The film also introduces previously unseen footage filmed by Cortázar and Aurora Bernardez in the gardens of the Mexican Embassy in New Delhi during the period in which the ambassador was Octavio Paz. The 8mm footage shows Cortázar and Bernardez, as well as Octavio Paz and his wife Elena Garro dancing with a large group of natives, presumably embassy personnel. The film includes interviews with Claribel Alegría, Ernesto Cardenal, Manuel Antín, Carlos Montemayor, and Sergio Ramírez among other writers and intellectuals. Filming Locations: Managua, Buenos Aires, Paris, Linz Am Rhien, Madrid, and Rome. The film was nominated by the Argentine Film Critics Association for Best Documentary in 2003. Premio Cóndor de Plata.
   
  Los cuentos del timonel (Tells of the Helmsman) Biographical sketch on Osvaldo Bayer, a controversial political figure, a journalist and historian born in the German Colonies of Santa Fe province in 1927. However, Mr Bayer grew up in Buenos Aires, amidst the German community of barrio Belgrano where Bayer continued to live in the Summers of Argentina thus alternating with Linz Am Rhien from Summer to Summer. From this period in Belgrano Bayer evoques the Adolf Hitler's birthday being celebrated by thousands at the German Club - Club Albatros "They came in into the streets of Belgrano in a caravan, often lead by the German Ambassador to Argentina Baron Edmund von Thurman. According to Bayer, when the ambassador arrived at the German Club the band will start playing Hitler's favorite tune the Badonviller Marsch. However, the director preferred to capture "the other Osvaldo Bayer" the one living significantly more comfortable in Linz am Rhein. After its release in Buenos Aires, "Los cuentos del timonel" was awarded Best Documentary by the Argentine Film Critics Association 2002. The film finds Bayer a witness of privilege to the second half of the 20th century in Latin America and Europe, which seems to be a constant theme in Montes-Bradley documentary work. Bayer's recollections on camera include a highly politicized period during the Peronist regime, in which he worked as helmsman on a river Navy boat patrolling the Paraná river between Buenos Aires and Asuncion. The title of the film derives from that vignette. With a peculiar sense of humor, Mr Bayer explains how the strikes against Perón begun and how his political involvement ultimately lead to his determination to leave the country and move to Berlin where he arrived shortly after the end of World War II. This chapter focusing on his experience during this period is quite eloquent and revealing. According to Osvaldo Bayer's his apartment had a clear view of the Berlin Tempelhof Airport from where the Berlin Airlift was carried on. At a different point in the film, Bayer also recalls the night the Berlin Wall was built and further describes the hazards of everyday life with skyrocketing inflation. During the making of this documentary film between Linz Am Rhien and Berlin, Bayer also explores his relationship with Paco U
caption: Ernesto Cardenal in Managua.
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