Country: Argentina
Year: 2010
Duration: 95'
abduction and death Argentina, the 1970s. Several armed young men, dressed in military uniform, kidnap a Senior Army General and hide him in a modest country house. There, without the hostage’s awareness of either the reason for his imprisonment or the people who planned it, the young kidnappers subject him to a summary trial. The military man will respond to an interrogation as severe as it is precise, that will lay bare the tense contradiction between two political and moral ideologies so incompatible that destruction surely awaits one of the opposite fields. “This historical episode, that took place in 1970, was the first act of Montoneros, its baptism. Secuesto y muerte deals with political violence and revolutionary tactics, revenge and revolution. In the heart of the film lies a question about time and fate: nothing can be done and, at the same time, everything is at stake. This question has not only political consequences; it also required to find the cinematic procedures to represent it.”
Biography
film director
Rafael Filippelli
Rafael Filippelli (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1938) began his career as assistant to Argentina’s most famous directors of the 1950s. He then directed commercials for twenty years in Argentina, Mexico and the United States. After living in Mexico he returned to Argentina, abandoned advertising and dedicated himself to film. Since then he has continued to make movies, including Música nocturna (2007), which won the prize for best director at the Independent Film Festival in Buenos Aires.
FILMOGRAFIA
Rafael Filippelli (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1938) began his career as assistant to Argentina’s most famous directors of the 1950s. He then directed commercials for twenty years in Argentina, Mexico and the United States. After living in Mexico he returned to Argentina, abandoned advertising and dedicated himself to film. Since then he has continued to make movies, including Música nocturna (2007), which won the prize for best director at the Independent Film Festival in Buenos Aires.
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Rafael Filippelli
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Beatriz Sarlo, David Oubiña, Mariano Llinás
fotografia/cinematography
Fernando Lockett
montaggio/film editing
Alejo Moguillansky
scenografia/production design
Cecilia Figueredo
musica/music
Gabriel Chwojnik
suono/sound
Jesica Suarez
interpreti/cast
Alberto Ajaka, Esteban Bigliardi, Agustina Muñoz, Enrique Piñeyro, Matias Umpierrez
produttore, vendita all’estero/producer, world sales
Saula Benavente
