:stephan: This movie has everything: unequal exchange, neocolonialism, Jakarta method, parapolitical death squads, School of the Americas, USAID/CIA connections, urban guerrillas. It's like every book I've read in the last year and comrade Costa-Gavras put it all in a movie 50 years ago. It's about the Tupamaros fighting against US fascist intervention in Uruguay.

While it was released one year later in American theaters, a storm of controversy developed. Many U.S. officials hated the movie and even stated that it was a heap of lies about U.S. involvement in Latin America and other third world countries. In Washington, D.C., it was removed from a special screening at the John F. Kennedy Center, only to be run uncut on a local TV station.

Cool shit, high recommend. I'm working my way through Costa-Gavras' filmography this dude was fucking tight.

  • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    No I mean the room in which the torture class was filmed was the same lecture hall the real ones occurred?

    • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      oh no not to the room but to the cities and general geographic position. i mean they could hardly film there when the operation was still going lol