Argentina almost beat the world to fusion energy—with Nazi help. What could go wrong?
In 1946, President Peron started a secret nuclear project with the help of Nazis refugees which consisted in the use of a new method "Nuclear Fusion". Five years later, he would announce to the world his succeed. Even today, no country around the world has achieved it.
Direction
Vila turns archival footage into paranoid thriller pacing
Editing
Jagged cuts between Peron's speeches and Nazi lab photos
Writing
Narrator Sacristán drips with 'I can't believe this either'
Director
Rodrigo H. Vila
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ronald Richter, the Austrian physicist Peron championed, was later exposed as a fraud who faked fusion results using lithium—though some Argentines still defend him.
The film sparked renewed debate in Argentina about Peronist historiography: was Project Huemul buried by anti-Peronists or by Peron himself when it failed?
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