Operación Masacre | |
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Directed by | Jorge Cedrón |
Screenplay by |
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Operación Masacre by Rodolfo Walsh |
Produced by | Oscar Daunes Jorge Cedron |
Starring | |
Narrated by | Julio Troxler |
Cinematography | Julio Duplaquet |
Edited by | Miguel Pérez |
Music by | Juan Carlos Cedrón |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Country | Argentina |
Language | Castilian 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 . It was filmed clandestinely (in hiding) during the self-styled "Argentine Revolution" dictatorship (1966–1973), and finally released on September 27, 1973. [2]
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.