

A lawyer hunts truth in a dictatorship's shadow. They don't want him to find it.
Based on the real story of the murder of Venezuelan lawyer Ramón Carmona Vásquez by a paramilitary group. Based on the book Grupo Táctico Operacional GATO by Alexis Rosas.
Direction
De la Cerda builds dread through bureaucratic menace, not spectacle.
Acting
Urdaneta's unraveling everyman anchors political abstraction in human sweat.

Director
Clemente de la Cerda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Venezuela's democratic era, the film anticipated the Caracazo uprising and creeping authoritarianism that followed.
The real GATO group was a police death squad; director Clemente de la Cerda was killed in a car accident two years later, cutting short a career that might have rivaled Latin America's great political filmmakers.
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