Argentina, subtitles
Excellent movie about the children of the political prisoners kidnapped and killed after the 1970s military coup in Argentina. (USA CIA probably supported the Generals and Admirals because they were "anti-communists". Very ugly stuff.) In the movie an Argentinean teen's life turns upside down when a judge reveals that her real parents had "disappeared" for political reasons years ago. Suddenly, she's ordered to leave the couple who raised her and move in with a grandmother she's never known . . . and who has spent the past 16 years attempting to locate her.
From Wikipedia:
The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra Sucia) was a period of state-sponsored violence in Argentina from 1976 until 1983. Victims of the violence included several thousand left-wing activists, including trade unionists, students, journalists, Marxists, Peronist guerrillas and alleged sympathizers, either proved or suspected. Some 10,000 of the disappeared were guerrillas of the Montoneros, and the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP). Estimates for the number of people who were killed or "disappeared" range from 9,000 to 30,000; the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons estimates that around 13,000 disappeared. The commander of the Montoneros, Mario Firmenich, in a radio interview in late 2000 from Spain later stated that "In a country that experienced a civil war, everybody has blood in their hands."
State terrorism was carried out primarily by Jorge Rafael Videla's military dictatorship as a part of Operation Condor; the acts of repression, torture, and assassinations continued until the return to civilian rule in 1983.
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