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The Act Of Killing (2012)
directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, 1974-; produced by Singe Byrge Sorensen, Final Cut for Real; performed by Anwar Congo, 1940-2019, Herman Koto and Yapto Soerjosoemarno, 1949- (Tel-Aviv District: Cinephil, 2012), 2 hours 40 mins
In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leader Anwar Congo and his friends to dramatise their role in genocide. But their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to be stars in their favourite film genres - gang...
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directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, 1974-; produced by Singe Byrge Sorensen, Final Cut for Real; performed by Anwar Congo, 1940-2019, Herman Koto and Yapto Soerjosoemarno, 1949- (Tel-Aviv District: Cinephil, 2012), 2 hours 40 mins
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In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leader Anwar Congo and his friends to dramatise their role in genocide. But their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to be stars in their favourite film genres - gangster, western, musical. They write the scripts. They play themselves. And they play their victims. This is a cinematic fever dream, an...
In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leader Anwar Congo and his friends to dramatise their role in genocide. But their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to be stars in their favourite film genres - gangster, western, musical. They write the scripts. They play themselves. And they play their victims. This is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass - murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.
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Film
Content Type
Documentary
Performer / Ensemble
Anwar Congo, 1940-2019, Herman Koto, Yapto Soerjosoemarno, 1949-
Contributor
Carlos Arango de Montis, Lars Skree, Singe Byrge Sorensen, Final Cut for Real, Simon Thamdrup Jensen
Author / Creator
Joshua Oppenheimer, 1974-, Anwar Congo, 1940-2019, Herman Koto, Yapto Soerjosoemarno, 1949-
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Cinephil
Person Discussed
Anwar Congo, 1940-2019, Herman Koto, Yapto Soerjosoemarno, 1949-
Topic / Theme
Genocide, War, Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966, War and Violence, Himself 1, Himself 2, Himself 3, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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All the King's Men (1999)
written by Robert Penn Warren, 1905-1989, Nigel McCrery, 1953-; directed by Julian Jarrold, 1960-; produced by Gareth Neame, 1967- and Nigel McCrery, 1953-, British Broadcasting Corporation and WGBH Boston; performed by David Jason, 1940-, Dame Maggie Smith, 1934-, David Troughton, 1950- and Patrick Malahide, 1945- (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 1999), 1 hour 57 mins
David Jason and Maggie Smith lead an all-star cast in Alma Cullen's First World War drama about the mysterious disappearance of the Sandringham Company at Gallipoli in 1915. The loss of the King George V battalion brought the true horror of the First World War to the heart of the establishment, and to the British...
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written by Robert Penn Warren, 1905-1989, Nigel McCrery, 1953-; directed by Julian Jarrold, 1960-; produced by Gareth Neame, 1967- and Nigel McCrery, 1953-, British Broadcasting Corporation and WGBH Boston; performed by David Jason, 1940-, Dame Maggie Smith, 1934-, David Troughton, 1950- and Patrick Malahide, 1945- (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 1999), 1 hour 57 mins
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David Jason and Maggie Smith lead an all-star cast in Alma Cullen's First World War drama about the mysterious disappearance of the Sandringham Company at Gallipoli in 1915. The loss of the King George V battalion brought the true horror of the First World War to the heart of the establishment, and to the British Royal Family itself. This is the story of the amateur soldiers, the grooms, servants and gardeners of the King's Norfolk Estate, and wh...
David Jason and Maggie Smith lead an all-star cast in Alma Cullen's First World War drama about the mysterious disappearance of the Sandringham Company at Gallipoli in 1915. The loss of the King George V battalion brought the true horror of the First World War to the heart of the establishment, and to the British Royal Family itself. This is the story of the amateur soldiers, the grooms, servants and gardeners of the King's Norfolk Estate, and what happened to them on the fateful day of their very first battle.
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Performance
Performer / Ensemble
David Jason, 1940-, Dame Maggie Smith, 1934-, David Troughton, 1950-, Patrick Malahide, 1945-
Contributor
David Odd, fl. 1979-2015, Gareth Neame, 1967-, Nigel McCrery, 1953-, British Broadcasting Corporation, WGBH Boston, Adrian Johnston, 1961-
Author / Creator
Robert Penn Warren, 1905-1989, Julian Jarrold, 1960-, David Jason, 1940-, Dame Maggie Smith, 1934-, David Troughton, 1950-, Patrick Malahide, 1945-, Nigel McCrery, 1953-, Alma Cullen
Date Published / Released
1999
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Person Discussed
Frank Beck, 1861-1915
Topic / Theme
War, World War I, 1914-1918, War and Violence, Captain Frank Beck, Queen Alexandra, Captain Claude Howlett, King George V, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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CNN Specials, Music that Makes a Difference - Ukraine
presented by John Vause, 1968-, in CNN Specials (Atlanta, GA: Cable News Network (CNN), 2023), 26 mins
Ukrainian artists who joined the military to defend their country started charities to raise money to help their own and/or picked up an instrument to write songs about the war.
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presented by John Vause, 1968-, in CNN Specials (Atlanta, GA: Cable News Network (CNN), 2023), 26 mins
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Ukrainian artists who joined the military to defend their country started charities to raise money to help their own and/or picked up an instrument to write songs about the war.
Field of Study
World Music
Content Type
News story
Contributor
John Vause, 1968-
Author / Creator
John Vause, 1968-
Date Published / Released
2023
Publisher
Cable News Network (CNN)
Series
CNN Specials
Speaker / Narrator
David Gilmour, 1946-, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, 1975-, Bono, 1960-
Person Discussed
David Gilmour, 1946-, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, 1975-, Bono, 1960-, Vladimir Putin, 1952-
Topic / Theme
War victims, Military officers, Military raids, Music, Invasions, Ukrainians
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Defiant Requiem
directed by Doug Shultz, fl. 2000; produced by Peter Schnall, fl. 1980-2017 and Doug Shultz, fl. 2000, Milk and Honey Pictures and Partisan Pictures (United Kingdom: Content Media Corporation, 2012), 1 hour 26 mins
Defiant Requiem illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezín during World War II.
It tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant young Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. His most extraordina...
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directed by Doug Shultz, fl. 2000; produced by Peter Schnall, fl. 1980-2017 and Doug Shultz, fl. 2000, Milk and Honey Pictures and Partisan Pictures (United Kingdom: Content Media Corporation, 2012), 1 hour 26 mins
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Defiant Requiem illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezín during World War II.
It tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant young Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. His most extraordinary act was to recruit 150 prisoners and teach them the Verdi Requiem by rote in a dank cellar using a smuggled score, after grueling da...
Defiant Requiem illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezín during World War II.
It tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant young Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. His most extraordinary act was to recruit 150 prisoners and teach them the Verdi Requiem by rote in a dank cellar using a smuggled score, after grueling days of forced labor. The Requiem was performed on sixteen occasions for fellow prisoners. The last, most infamous performance occurred on June 23, 1944. With only sixty prisoner-singers remaining following massive deportations, Schächter was ordered by the Nazi camp commander to perform the Requiem before high-ranking SS officers from Berlin and the International Red Cross to support the charade that the prisoners were well treated and flourishing.
Defiant Requiem is about how a rare form of courage, hope, and survival sparked an entirely unique method of fighting Nazi oppression, enabling the prisoners to maintain their dignity and humanity while battling the worst of mankind with the best of mankind. The Latin liturgy of the Requiem which highlights God’s ultimate judgment of the wicked, allowed the prisoners to sing to the Nazis what they dared not say. The Nazi legacy of brutality is well established, but the Terezín legacy is virtually unknown and is told dramatically in Defiant Requiem.
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Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Peter Schnall, fl. 1980-2017, Doug Shultz, fl. 2000, Milk and Honey Pictures, Partisan Pictures, Bebe Neuwirth, 1958-
Author / Creator
Doug Shultz, fl. 2000
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Content Media Corporation
Speaker / Narrator
Bebe Neuwirth, 1958-
Person Discussed
Rafael Schächter, 1905-1945
Topic / Theme
Revolution and Protest context, Nazi regime in Germany, 1933-1945, Nazism, Prisoners of war, Internment camps, World War II, 1939-1945, Holocaust, 1939-1945, War and Violence, The Arts, History, Jews, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Flor en Otomí
directed by Luisa Riley; produced by Foprocine (Mexico City, Federal District (Mexico): Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE), 2012), 1 hour 18 mins
At 19, Deni Prieto Stock joined a guerrilla group and, four months later, on February 14, 1974, was murdered by the Mexican army in Nepantla, Mexico State together with four companions. A series of testimonials allow us to get to know the family and social circumstances that influenced Deni 's path; we also discov...
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directed by Luisa Riley; produced by Foprocine (Mexico City, Federal District (Mexico): Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE), 2012), 1 hour 18 mins
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At 19, Deni Prieto Stock joined a guerrilla group and, four months later, on February 14, 1974, was murdered by the Mexican army in Nepantla, Mexico State together with four companions. A series of testimonials allow us to get to know the family and social circumstances that influenced Deni 's path; we also discover the ties of love and friendship she found in the safe house, her daily life in the underground and the discipline and aspirations sh...
At 19, Deni Prieto Stock joined a guerrilla group and, four months later, on February 14, 1974, was murdered by the Mexican army in Nepantla, Mexico State together with four companions. A series of testimonials allow us to get to know the family and social circumstances that influenced Deni 's path; we also discover the ties of love and friendship she found in the safe house, her daily life in the underground and the discipline and aspirations she shared with her fellow guerrillas.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Foprocine, Steven Brown
Author / Creator
Luisa Riley
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
Person Discussed
Deni Prieto Stock, 1955-1974
Topic / Theme
Biographies, Murder, Guerrilla warfare, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Orchestra of Exiles
directed by Josh Aronson, fl. 1996; produced by Josh Aronson, fl. 1996, United Channel Movies and Aronson Film Associates (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2012), 1 hour 25 mins
The thrilling story of how one man helped save Europe's premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis. In the early 1930's Hitler began firing Jewish musicians across Europe. Overcoming extraordinary obstacles, violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musicians to Palestine and formed a symphony t...
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directed by Josh Aronson, fl. 1996; produced by Josh Aronson, fl. 1996, United Channel Movies and Aronson Film Associates (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2012), 1 hour 25 mins
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The thrilling story of how one man helped save Europe's premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis. In the early 1930's Hitler began firing Jewish musicians across Europe. Overcoming extraordinary obstacles, violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musicians to Palestine and formed a symphony that would become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. With courage, resourcefulness and an entourage of allies including Arturo Toscanini...
The thrilling story of how one man helped save Europe's premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis. In the early 1930's Hitler began firing Jewish musicians across Europe. Overcoming extraordinary obstacles, violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musicians to Palestine and formed a symphony that would become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. With courage, resourcefulness and an entourage of allies including Arturo Toscanini and Albert Einstein, Huberman saved nearly 1000 Jews - and guaranteed the survival of Europe's musical heritage.Featuring commentary by musical greats including Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta and Joshua Bell, Orchestra of Exiles is a timeless tale of a brilliant young man coming of age, and the suspenseful chronicle of how his efforts impacted cultural history.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Josh Aronson, fl. 1996, United Channel Movies, Aronson Film Associates, Tim Eliot, fl. 2012
Author / Creator
Josh Aronson, fl. 1996
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
First Run Features
Speaker / Narrator
Tim Eliot, fl. 2012
Person Discussed
Bronislaw Huberman, Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, Arturo Toscanini, 1867-1957, Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897
Topic / Theme
History, War, Biographies, Orchestras, Musicians, Antisemitism, Nazism, Violin, Symphony orchestra, Jews, Germans
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Our World War, Season 1, Episode 1, The First Day
directed by Bruce Goodison, fl. 1997-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 1 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 59 mins
August 1914, two weeks after the First World War was declared. 80,000 British troops have arrived in southern Belgium, but they have yet to engage the enemy. Among these professional soldiers are the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, some of the best-trained gunners in the British Army.
Lieutenant Maurice Dease and...
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directed by Bruce Goodison, fl. 1997-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 1 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 59 mins
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August 1914, two weeks after the First World War was declared. 80,000 British troops have arrived in southern Belgium, but they have yet to engage the enemy. Among these professional soldiers are the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, some of the best-trained gunners in the British Army.
Lieutenant Maurice Dease and his friend, Australian Lieutenant Fred Steele, command two companies of riflemen and machine gunners who find themselves camping overn...
August 1914, two weeks after the First World War was declared. 80,000 British troops have arrived in southern Belgium, but they have yet to engage the enemy. Among these professional soldiers are the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, some of the best-trained gunners in the British Army.
Lieutenant Maurice Dease and his friend, Australian Lieutenant Fred Steele, command two companies of riflemen and machine gunners who find themselves camping overnight at Nimy Bridge, the northernmost point of the Mons-Conde Canal. The canal, surrounding the town of Mons, supports 18 bridges stretched along 20 miles of water - but everyone, including Private Sid Godley and his mate Private William Holbrook, expects to be crossing those bridges in the morning. Overnight, however, intelligence reports the Germans may be closer than the British think, and the Royal Engineers, including Lance Corporal Charles Jarvis and his sapper, Private Neary, are ordered to start preparing the bridges for demolition.
What happens next, on Sunday 23 August, tests the soldiers' skill, courage and ingenuity to the absolute limit, leading to the first Victoria Crosses of the First World War. Not everyone will make it through the First Day.
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Drama
Content Type
Diary/Memoir/Autobiography, Performance
Contributor
Stuart Bentley, fl. 2008, Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation
Author / Creator
Bruce Goodison, fl. 1997-2016
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Our World War
Topic / Theme
Recorded history, War, Soldiers, World War I, 1914-1918, War and Violence, British, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Our World War, Season 1, Episode 2, Pals
directed by Ben Chanan, fl. 2003-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 2 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 58 mins
1916, and Britain's armed forces are decimated. Across the country, friends join up to fight together, in new battalions known as 'Pals'. Paddy Kennedy, a warehouse clerk from Manchester, joins the Manchester Pals Battalion alongside his friends Henry, Andy and Jim. They soon discover that the whole of their neigh...
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directed by Ben Chanan, fl. 2003-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 2 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 58 mins
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1916, and Britain's armed forces are decimated. Across the country, friends join up to fight together, in new battalions known as 'Pals'. Paddy Kennedy, a warehouse clerk from Manchester, joins the Manchester Pals Battalion alongside his friends Henry, Andy and Jim. They soon discover that the whole of their neighborhood has joined up, including a nearby factory foreman, now their sergeant, Mitchell, and their friend Lizzie, who has become a volu...
1916, and Britain's armed forces are decimated. Across the country, friends join up to fight together, in new battalions known as 'Pals'. Paddy Kennedy, a warehouse clerk from Manchester, joins the Manchester Pals Battalion alongside his friends Henry, Andy and Jim. They soon discover that the whole of their neighborhood has joined up, including a nearby factory foreman, now their sergeant, Mitchell, and their friend Lizzie, who has become a volunteer nurse.
These pals are set to become part of the largest offensive ever mounted by the British Army, the Battle of the Somme. But after a successful first day, they are ordered to seize control of Trones Wood, a thickly forested copse riddled with enemy soldiers and impossible to navigate. Through all this, they survive shellfire and ambush, evade capture by the Germans and encounter the mysterious Private William Hunt, whose fate will become forever entwined with the life of Paddy Kennedy.
Paddy's journey leads to the deadliest mission of all - the execution by firing squad of one of his pals. How will Paddy survive becoming a soldier?
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Drama
Content Type
Diary/Memoir/Autobiography, Performance
Contributor
Stuart Bentley, fl. 2008, Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation
Author / Creator
Ben Chanan, fl. 2003-2016
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Our World War
Topic / Theme
Recorded history, War, Soldiers, British
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Our World War, Season 1, Episode 3, War Machine
directed by Bruce Goodison, fl. 1997-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 3 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 58 mins
1918, and after four years of combat the British invent a new weapon designed to break the stalemate. Private Chas Rowland, determined to bring the war to an end and return home, joins the Tank Corps under the command of Lieutenant Mould, entering the extraordinary world of the Niveleur, a Mark V tank.
Primed to...
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directed by Bruce Goodison, fl. 1997-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 3 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 58 mins
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1918, and after four years of combat the British invent a new weapon designed to break the stalemate. Private Chas Rowland, determined to bring the war to an end and return home, joins the Tank Corps under the command of Lieutenant Mould, entering the extraordinary world of the Niveleur, a Mark V tank.
Primed to take part in a major offensive against the Germans just outside the French town of Amiens, the crew of the Niveleur include Fred Firth,...
1918, and after four years of combat the British invent a new weapon designed to break the stalemate. Private Chas Rowland, determined to bring the war to an end and return home, joins the Tank Corps under the command of Lieutenant Mould, entering the extraordinary world of the Niveleur, a Mark V tank.
Primed to take part in a major offensive against the Germans just outside the French town of Amiens, the crew of the Niveleur include Fred Firth, a father-of-two desperate to see his children again, Private Dodds, a tough warrior scarred by the loss of his brothers and Mike Weston, a civilian mechanic conscripted into the tanks. The crew will only survive four grueling days behind enemy lines if they can learn to work together. Can they bring the war to an end and make it home?
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Field of Study
Film
Content Type
Performance
Contributor
Stuart Bentley, fl. 2008, Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation
Author / Creator
Bruce Goodison, fl. 1997-2016
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Our World War
Topic / Theme
Recorded history, War, Correspondence, Military tanks, Soldiers, World War I, 1914-1918, War and Violence, British, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Segunda Vez
directed by Dora Garcia, fl. 2013; produced by Marie Logie, fl. 2010 (New York: Grasshopper Film, 2018), 1 hour 34 mins
This vital, revolutionary documentary isn't merely a biopic of Oscar Masotta - a pivotal theorist in the Argentinian avant-garde from the 1950s to 1970s - but a treatise on the artistic and political climate of the nation preceding the Dirty War, eerily mirroring the world today. The title, Segunda Vez, originates...
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directed by Dora Garcia, fl. 2013; produced by Marie Logie, fl. 2010 (New York: Grasshopper Film, 2018), 1 hour 34 mins
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This vital, revolutionary documentary isn't merely a biopic of Oscar Masotta - a pivotal theorist in the Argentinian avant-garde from the 1950s to 1970s - but a treatise on the artistic and political climate of the nation preceding the Dirty War, eerily mirroring the world today. The title, Segunda Vez, originates from a homonymous story written by a contemporary of Masotta’s, Julio Cortázar.
Field of Study
Art & Architecture
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Marie Logie, fl. 2010
Author / Creator
Dora Garcia, fl. 2013, Julio Cortázar, 1914-1984
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Person Discussed
Oscar Masotta-a, fl. 1950
Topic / Theme
Argentinian people, War, Avant-garde, Political theory, Argentine Dirty War, 1976-1983, War and Violence
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Copyright © 2018 Grasshopper Film
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