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“The remedy is worse than the disease”
The plot of this videofilm deals with the story of a man from the "services" of the military dictatorship that devastated Argentina between 1976 and 1983, who had a double life: that of his family and that of his tasks as a torturer. This film was filmed during the aforementioned dictatorship in a surreptitious way and with small filming materials such as Super 8 cameras in order not to be noticed.
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Director
Status
Released
Original Language
ES

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.

María is eighteen years old, she lives with her mother in an old house in Buenos Aires in 1978, subletting rooms and giving classes to poor illiterate adults. Suddenly she is abducted by a military squad and finds herself accused of subversion and submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo, while her mother desperately tries to find her.