After 96 years, Héctor Alterio continues to perform. Already a well-fed career since his debut in 1948 as the protagonist of Suicide is prohibited in springSince Alexandre Casona. During his lifetime, works and films, protagonists and secondary characters, numerous awards (in 2004 he received the Goya de Honor). Here is a list of some of his seminal works.
Unknown some days (1977, Jaime Chavarri). Joseph He’s a gay man from the 1950s, played by Alterio, who works as a magician in a party hall. His life story is linked to the context of the civil war in Granada, which gave rise to the assassination of Federico García Lorca, whose gardener was José’s parish priest. For this performance, Alterio was distinguished as best actor at the San Sebastian Festival.
The Cuenca crime (1979, Pilar Miró) Based on true stories and the eponymous novel by screenwriter Lola Salvador Maldonado, it tells the process that innocent people, accused of murder, undergo, which causes the disappearance of a pastor, without the corpse appearing. The film was controversial for its portrayal of the torture of the Guardia Civil, kidnapped for a year and a half and its director tried by a military tribunal. Alterio embodied the anointing of the accused.
El Nido (1980, Jaime de Armiñán). Nominated for the Oscar, it tells the story of Don Alejandro, played by Héctor Alterio, a widower obsessed with his deceased wife, leading to the appearance of a pre-teen played by Ana Torrent, with whom he forms a relationship with reminiscences of her. Lolita by Nabokov. Alterio won the Asociación de Cronistas del Espectáculo (ACE) award for this performance.
The official historyl (1985, Luis Puenzo). Alterio worked on four of Argentina’s other Oscar-nominated films, and the first time he won: The official story. The story takes place during the dictatorship era. It tells the story of Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez (Norma Aleandro), a history professor in Buenos Aires, and her husband Roberto Ibáñez (Héctor Alterio), a businessman enriched by his ties to the dictatorship.
The detective and the dead (1999, Gonzalo Suárez). With Javier Bardem, María de Medeiros and Carmelo Gómez, based on a story by Hans Cristian Andersen, tells how GM, a young tycoon played by Héctor Alterio, gives his daughter an artifact that can be presented as a hologram after his death.
The young man (2001, Juan José Campanella) tells the story of a fourth child, played by Ricardo Darín, who inherited the restaurant from his priest, in Alterio’s family. This cuarentón will have to try to fulfill the death of his mother, born by Alzheimer’s, before she dies: to marry for the Church.
water winds (Juan José Campanella, 2006), it was a Spanish-Argentinian series which recounts the migratory experience to Argentina of a participant in the Asturian revolution of 1934 and the return of his son in 2001, expelled by the crisis that devastated the Latin American country. He starred Héctor Alterio and his wife Ernesto, both playing the same protagonist at different points in his life.
A little story. Despite his advanced age, after 80 years of profession, Alterio continues to be active in performing this theatrical work., with autobiographical material. A 90-minute monologue, where tangos were mixed, including poems by Cátulo Castillo and León Felipe.
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