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Film, VideoRumor A group of choreographers travel to Villa Velázquez, Rocha (Uruguay) to investigate the artistic motives that impel the village inhabitants to reenact, from night to morning, a legendary battle that took place within the borders of the village in 1845. The result: notes for a boundless documentary of epic proportions, about imagination and the search for one's own identity.- Contributor: Hernández Holz, Arauco - Hernández Holz, Ayara
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoSemillas de luz "Through the testimonies on the human tragedy of disappearances caused by the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1970s, this film transforms reality into a poem of light."--DVD case.
- Contributor: Wainberg, Lucia
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoDesde adentro : una historia en la carcel. Buscando una nueva... Spanish with English subtitles. DVD, NTSC (Region 9). Executive producers, Andrea Villaverde, Mario Jacob ; director, director of photography, Vasco Elola ; original idea and research, Andrea Villaverde ; editors, Manuel Rilla, Vasco Elola, Fernando Epstein ; music, Manuel Rilla, Ernesto Tabárez. Featuring: Buzz Alexander, Bell Chevigny, Tim Guthrie.
- Contributor: Buen Cine Producciónes (Firm) - Villaverde, Andrea
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoMundialito Shows the political situation in the 80's when a international soccer contest is organized.
- Contributor: Bednarik, Sebastián
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoArtigas la redota
La redota : "In 1884, the famous painter Juan Manuel Blanes, from Uruguay, is asked to create a portrait of José Artigas. There is only one drawing of his face, done in his old age so Blanes must imagine what he looked like by reading up on his ideas and learning about his life [from Guzmán Larra's journal/sketchbook] ..."--http://www.loslibertadores.net web site.- Contributor: Morales, José María - Salado Media - Esmoris, Jorge - Gracia, Sancho - Vierci, Pablo - Cruz, Yamandú - Televisión Española - Charlone, César - Administración Nacional De Telecomunicaciones (Uruguay) - Sancho, Rodolfo
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoDecile a Mario que no vuelva Tell Mario not to come back
Tell Mario not to come back Mario Handler explains why he visited former comrades, victims, prisoners and an executioner of the dictatorial regime (1973-1986) in his motherland: he owes it ''to all those who have suffered, while I did not do anything against the dictatorship or stand up for my people.'' He fled to Venezuela at an early age, where he continued making films, but intentionally not a single one...- Contributor: Handler, Mario - Beltramelli, Federico - Buencine Producciones
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoArtigas : la redota
Also known as: Redota : una historia de Artigas "In 1884, the famous painter Juan Manuel Blanes, from Uruguay, is asked to create a portrait of José Artigas. There is only one drawing of his face, done in his old age so Blanes must imagine what he looked like by reading up on his ideas and learning about his life [from Guzmán Larra's journal/sketchbook] ..."--Http://www.loslibertadores.net web site- Contributor: Morales, José María - Salado Media - Esmoris, Jorge - Gracia, Sancho - Vierci, Pablo - Cruz, Yamandú - Televisión Española - Charlone, César - Administración Nacional De Telecomunicaciones (Uruguay) - Sancho, Rodolfo
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoA las cinco en punto A las cinco en punto (2004): The largest act of peaceful resistance against authoritarianism in 1970s Latin America was the general strike in Uruguay which lasted from June 27 to July 11, 1973. Workers and students united to stage marches and rallies in the streets as a result of President Juan María Bordaberry having suspended the constitution and imposed a military dictatorship. Héctor, el...
- Contributor: Jung, María Eugenia - Rodríguez Díaz, Universindo - LC Collection (Library of Congress) - Charlo, José Pedro - Buencine Producciones - Tv Unam (Mexico City, Mexico) - González Sierra, Yamandú
- Date: 2006
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Film, VideoRaúl Sendic, tupamaro : 1925-1989
1925-1989 The Movimiento de Liberación Nacional - Tupamaros was founded in the early 1960s by journalist Raúl Sendic. This documentary employs archival materials and interviews to tell the story of Sendic and his Uruguayan urban guerrilla organization. The group began by robbing banks, gun clubs and other businesses, then distributing stolen food and money among the poor in Montevideo. By the late 1960s, it was...- Contributor: Figueroa, Alejandro - Mujica Cordano, José Alberto - LC Collection (Library of Congress) - Galeano, Eduardo - Sendic, Carolina - Buencine Producciones - Sendic Rodríguez, Raúl - Trasante, Jorge
- Date: 2005
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Film, VideoÁcratas ; Por esos ojos ; Memorias de mujeres : 3 películas d...
3 películas documentales uruguayas de Virginia Martínez | Tres películas documentales uruguayas de Virginia Martínez | Anarquistas expropriadores en el Rio de la Plata Ácratas (2000, 73 min.): Using photographs, films and documents, chronicles an anarchist movement located in the Rio de la Plata and Montevideo areas in the first third of the 20th century. Revolutionaries included Miguel Arcángel Roscigno, Buenaventura Durruti, and Severino Di Giovanni. Por esos ojos (1998, 62 min.): María Ester Gatti spent years searching for her granddaughter, Mariana Zaffaroni, who as an infant had...- Contributor: LC Collection (Library of Congress) - Arijón, Gonzalo - Fona (Uruguay) - Buencine Producciones - Martínez, Virginia - Télé Europe (Firm) - Point Du Jour (Firm) - Vidal, Héctor Manuel - Liscano, Carlos - France 2 Cinéma (Firm)
- Date: 2006
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Film, VideoYo pregunto a los presentes: la tierra no se mendiga se gesti...
Yo pregunto a los presentes: 40 anos despues, la lucha de los caneros de bella union sigue siendo la misma Documentary examines the question of who owns the land in Uruguay today. It includes interviews with the sugar plantation workers of Bella Unión who occupied the land on January 15, 2006, after tiring of the promises of the progressive government, Frente Amplio. The film links the present labor movement with the old labor movement (Movimiento de Liberación Nacional) from the 60's and 70's led...- Contributor: Grupo De Cine Insurgente (Argentina) - Buencine Producciones
- Date: 2007
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Film, VideoEl círculo : las vidas de Henry Engler
Circle This is the story of Henry Engler, a medical student in Uruguay in the 1970s, who got involved in the MLN Tupamaros guerrilla movement, became one of its high-rank leaders, was caught and spent 13 years in prison, 11 of them in complete isolation. In 1985 he was released among hundreds of political prisoners, self-exiled to Sweden where he could finish his studies and...- Contributor: Charlo, José Pedro - Garay, Aldo - Buencine Producciones
- Date: 2008