Short documentary about Eva Perón produced by the Secretary of Press and Diffusion of the Presidency of the Nation.
Direction
Amadori turns funeral footage into religious ecstasy.
Editing
Aggressive cross-cutting between crowd hysteria and Evita's frozen image.
Director
Luis César Amadori
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was mandatory viewing in Argentine schools until the 1955 military coup banned all Peronist imagery overnight.
The original negative was hidden in a Buenos Aires basement for decades; most prints were destroyed by anti-Peronist forces.
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