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Fatherland

Name: Fatherland
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-09-13
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 5.5

★ 5,5 /10 (4 Votes)

2011 ES 100 min

Overview

Fatherland brings a rigorous structural approach to a site of monuments that is also a place of movement, criss-crossed daily by tourists and locals. The grounds are laid out like city blocks, with wide avenues branching onto laneways filled with elaborate mausoleums. The film does not attempt to tour the cemetery as one would on foot, however, but rather moves chronologically through the history enshrined there. A series of individuals are framed in static compositions as they read aloud excerpts from the writings of noteworthy Argentines interred within. (Some license has been taken, as the final resting places of certain figures represented - such as journalist Rodolfo Walsh, who was among the "disappeared" - remain unknown. The result is both poetic and political.) Beginning in the early 1800s, this history comprises civil war, battles with the country's native population, the conflict between the city and the provinces, and years of military dictatorship.

Release date

13/09/2011

Votes

Popularity

1.4

Genres

Documentary

Status

Released

Original title

Tierra de los Padres

Language

Runtime

100 min

Fatherland

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Original Soundtrack

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