Danube

Nov 20, 2021

1h 3m

★ 4.6

Overview

Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival in order to show the world its friendly face, while exercising censorship and repressing dissidence.

Genres

Documentary

History

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Fiørd Estudio

En Otro Orden de Cosas

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Nina Gilmizyanova

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Juan Domingo Perón

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Juan Carlos Onganía

Self - Actress (voice) (archive footage)

Isabel Sarli

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