Etiqueta: Dictatorship
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Roses from Stalin (Las rosas de Stalin)
My name is Svetlana Alliluyeva. I was born on February 28, 1926. My father died in 1953. His name was Joseph Stalin. Stalin’s favorite, his only daughter had a rough awakening at 16 years old. She discovered her mother had died of suicide, not natural causes, and her father was a ruthless dictator. Her first…
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The School of the Americas (La escuela de las Américas) (TV Series)
The facility that produced murderers. The School of the Americas (SOA) is the U.S. Army's training center founded in 1946. Hidden in plain sight in Columbus, Georgia, it has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America. The purpose of the school is to train military personnel according to the…
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A Communist in Underwear (Un comunista en calzoncillos)
For the first time ever, he had to be careful about what he could and couldn't say Summer of 1976, Argentina. In this year characterized by the fall of democracy, Claudia begins her years of adolescence with silence as her most important ally. Her analytical skills allow her to identify the different emerging ideologies…
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The Happiest Place on Earth (El lugar más feliz del mundo)
An extraordinary trip to the extremes of the human condition. Through the experience obtained for more than 15 years working as reporter in Asia, David Jiménez lives some of the most disturbing and mediatic historical events in the last decades. Jiménez takes the audience to different atmospheres, like when he entered a Cambodian prison where…
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On the rock (En la roca)
This story places us at the midpoint of the Spanish Civil War and narrates the lives of Guy Burguess and Kim Philby, two spies with a single mission: assassinating Francisco Franco. The first one is a BBC announcer and the second one is a correspondent for the newspaper The Times, during the Spanish Civil War.…
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Diamond Village (Villa Diamante)
A woman who fights for her destiny Ana Elisa and Irene are two very different sisters, both physically and in how they behave, but they’re very close. They live comfortably with their parents until the death of their country’s dictator brings misfortune to the family. From then on, they will be forced to live at…
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Tailored (A medida) – Original Project
In Madrid, in the middle of the dictatorship, there is a tailor shop run by Tito López where he himself takes measurements of the shoulders, arms, and inseam of the soldiers. Tito really likes these military men, his best customers! And his life would be so much happier if it were not for his wife being…
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Slaughterhouse 36/39 (Matadero 36/39)
Slaughterhouse 36/39 tells of the terrible situations that millions of citizens, especially women, were subjected to during the Spanish Civil War. This work is composed of three independent scenes: "Resistance 36", which tells the story of four prisoners locked up in a detention center; "Purging 38", which is developed in an asylum where they conduct…
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Benedicat
Written by Josep Lluís and Rodolf Sirera, Benedicat is set in two historical moments and in two different places: Croatia’s Kingdom in the 40's (then a puppet regime for Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany), and Italy in the 70’s. In the first of the periods we will attend to the triumph of Croatian Utasas’ fanaticism, which will…
