Werner Schroeter makes dictatorship cinema feel like fever-dream opera — and it works.
Documentary on State terrorism during the last military dictatorship in Argentina, made in its aftermath. Invited by the Goethe-Institut to hold a workshop with young film students, Schroeter contrasts the official statements of the regime with the testimony of victims, dissidents and relatives of the disappeared. And trust that their faces and words will resonate much more than a mere representation of violence.
Direction
Schroeter's operatic staging makes horror almost beautiful.
Editing
Jarring cuts between regime lies and raw survivor faces.
Director
Werner Schroeter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made mere months after the dictatorship fell, this is immediate post-trauma cinema — no historical distance, just raw wound.
Schroeter's 'workshop' structure deliberately implicates the viewer as student, forcing us to ask what we're learning from others' pain.
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