The dictatorship ended. The cameras rolled. Argentina exhaled for the first time in seven years.
1983: After more than seven years of terror, the Argentineans recover the democracy. The reconstruction of a climate of time and an event that marked a point of break not only in the policy but in the culture and the arts of Argentina
Editing
Juxtaposing horror footage with fragile hope
Direction
Gueilburt lets silence do the screaming
Director
Matías Gueilburt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the first documentary allowed unrestricted access to state archives post-dictatorship; filmmakers literally opened cabinets that had been sealed since 1976.
Raúl Alfonsín appears here as President-elect, not yet sworn in—the only time he allowed such intimate campaign footage, believing cinema itself was part of democratization.
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