Movie Argentina

Is movie “Imagining Argentina” based on real facts?

So are there any real facts? Which?

The film is adapted from an award-winning novel of the same title by Lawrence Thornton. The movie/novel was set during the Dirty War which indeed happen in Argentina between 1976 to 1983 during Jorge Rafael Videla’s military government. According to the Nunca Más report issued by the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP) in 1984, about 9,000 people were “disappeared” between 1976 and 1983. An estimate by the Argentine security services in mid-July 1978, which started counting victims in 1975, gave the figure of 22,000 persons.

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Tango Bar [VHS] $19.98 From IMDB: Antonio returns to Argentina from political exile and reunites with his old partner Ricardo at Ricardo’s bar. With several talented dancers, the partners stage a cabaret. Ricardo narrates and Antonio sings, taking their audience through the history and meaning of the tango, a dance from the mean streets of the poor. Now that Antonio is back, there is also tension with Ricardo, because b…

The Tall Men [VHS] $19.98 The Tall Men was neither the first nor the last Western to steal liberally from Howard Hawks’s Red River, but mark this one “all in the family”: William Hawks, Howard’s brother, was the producer. Raoul Walsh directed, and his lusty, back-slapping way with both male-female dust-ups and testy masculine friendships is on abundant CinemaScope display. Clark Gable stars (his first of three films i…

Bowery Boys: Ghost Chasers [VHS] $13.98 After their success on Broadway, the ‘Dead End Kids’ were recruited by Hollywood. Eventually these young kids from the streets of New York became bonified celebrities, known as the ‘Bowery Boys’ and starred in over 50 films and serials. In this film the boys are accompanied by the comedy duo of Leo Gorcye and Huntz Hall. The combination of gangster melodrama and slapstick scenarios makes this Bowe…

The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) $8.75 In Argentina, a retired federal agent (Ricardo Darin) struggles to put together a book about an important rape case he worked 25 years earlier. Meeting up with a former female colleague (Soledad Villamil) also tied deeply to the case, they revisit their memories–a process that not only brings to light surprising details of the crime, but also reawakens the passions he felt for his associate. Osca…

Evita $9.99 Madonna is charismatically radiant in the title role of the hit musical, playing the born-to-poverty actress who seduced her way into power as the wife of Argentinean President Juan Peron and was both revered and hated by her countrymen until her death at the age of 33 in 1952. Director Alan Parker’s adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice Broadway smash also stars Antonio Banderas and Jona…

The Complete Metropolis [Blu-ray] $22.94 Unseen since the film’s first release, 25 minutes of long-thought-lost footage found in Argentina was restored and added to director Fritz Lang’s silent science-fiction masterwork. In a towering city of the future, the populace is divided between an idle ruling class and the dehumanized workers who toil deep below the surface. Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Rudolph Klein-Rogge star. 145 min. Standard…

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