(Directed by Fernando Solanas (1973, 120 min)

Jam a wrench in the machine and walk off the shop floor, because it’s time to go on strike in Third Cinema founder Fernando E. Solanas’s 1972 docudrama masterpiece Los hijos de Fierro (The Children of Fierro).

Set during Argentina’s tumultuous era of on-again, off-again military rule during the 1950s and 60s, Solanas’s poetic lens and surrealist tendencies perfectly encapsulate this period of disorienting political strife as Argentina struggled to forge its national identity in the face of militarism, neocolonialism, and everyday violence. Based on Argentine national hero José Hernández’s epic poem El Gaucho Martín Fierro from a century before, the film seeks to establish a revolutionary nationalism informed by both historical folktales, and the industrialized Peronist agenda that unfolded in mid-century Buenos Aires.

A trio of strangers are brought together by the mysterious gaucho Fierro, who instills on his ‘sons’ a triad of Left Wing political strategies that they take to the city to enact. Rallying the working masses and union bosses, ‘The Elder’, ‘The Malicious’, and ‘The Cadet’ wage a war on the Capitalist class across the land.As aesthetically beautiful as it is realistically brutal, Solanas imbues the film with the gritty documentary style he perfected with 1968’s The Hours of the Furnace while maintaining a wholly-unique vision of historical fiction.

We’re proud to present this gonzo true crime masterpiece so dangerous & potent no streaming aite would dare license it despite its accololades!