Operación Masacre (film)

Operación Masacre
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJorge Cedrón
Screenplay by
Based onOperación Masacre
by Rodolfo Walsh
Produced byOscar Daunes
Jorge Cedron
Starring
Narrated byJulio Troxler
CinematographyJulio Duplaquet
Edited byMiguel Pérez
Music byJuan Carlos Cedrón
Release date
  • 27 September 1973 (1973-09-27) (Argentina)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageCastilian Spanish

Operación Masacre (transl. "Operation Massacre") is a 1973 historical drama film co-written and directed by Jorge Cedrón and based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Rodolfo Walsh,[1] who also wrote the script. It stars Norma Aleandro, Víctor Laplace, Ana María Picchio, Walter Vidarte and Julio Troxler [es; fr]. It was filmed clandestinely (in hiding) during the self-styled "Argentine Revolution" dictatorship (1966–1973), and finally released on September 27, 1973.[2]

Synopsis

In 1956, one year after the self-styled "Liberating Revolution" dictatorship deposed Argentine president Juan Perón in a coup, a civil-military insurrection failed in its attempt to take on the power in the name of peronism.[3] In retaliation, in a vacant lot in the city of José León Suárez (province of Buenos Aires), several civilians accused of being part of the uprising are illegally shot by the dictatorship.[4] However, seven people manage to survive and tell their story to the world.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Stites Mor, Jessica (2012). Transition Cinema : Political Filmmaking and the Argentine Left Since 1968. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-8229-7797-1.
  2. ^ Jones, Derek (2015). Censorship : A World Encyclopedia. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. p. 431. ISBN 978-1-136-79864-1.
  3. ^ Tompkins, Cynthia (2018). Affectual Erasure : Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Argentine Cinema. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-4384-7098-6.
  4. ^ Walsh, Rodolfo J; Gitlin, Daniella (2013). Operation Massacre. New York: Seven Stories Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-60980-513-5.