Argentinian director Adolfo Aristarian died in Buenos Aires on April 26. He was 82. He won two Goya Awards and received the Gold Medal of the Film Academy in 2004. Born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Paque Chas, cinema came into his life very early through the films he saw after school in the continuous session rooms. Aristarain lived for seven years in Spain, where he shot some of his most outstanding works, thus developing a link with Spanish cinema. This led him to win the Goya for Best Ibero-American Film for 'A Place in the World' and Best Adapted Screenplay for 'Common Places'. He assisted his great friend Mario Camus in directing, with whom he would also write scripts; as well as Vicente Aranda, Sergio Leone, Lewis Gilbert, Gordon Flemyng or Sergio Renán, among others. In addition, he worked with Kathy Saavedra, who has participated in almost all of his stories. Aristarian was an assistant director on three Spaghetti westerns “Once Upon a Time in the West” in 1968 and “Bad Man’s River” and “Captain Apache” both in 1971.
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