Release Date

13 Sep, 2011

Runtime

01:40: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Tierra de los Padres

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Actors

Vera Rentero

Daniel Perczyk

José Campusano

Carlos Gamerro

Marcelo Bertuccio

Mariana Enriquez

Alejandro Tantanian

Emilio Garcia Wehbi

Gustavo Nielsen

Ricardo Ibarlucia

Andrés Levinson

Gustavo Fontán

Vera Czemerinski

Pablo Mazzola

Ricardo Watson

Vanessa Ragone

Leonardo Oyola

Luis Benítez

Hernán Ronsino

Ignacio Masllorens

Julián Teubal

Crew

Nicolás Prividera

Nicolás Prividera

Pablo Ratto

Evangelina Loguercio

Ada Frontini

Amalia Herdt

Horacio Almada

Jorge Russo