Escribiendo memorias de la dictadura: Las asignaturas pendientes del cine argentino

Abstract

For more than a quarter of a century, Argentinean cinema has been writing the memories of the last dictatorship (1976-1983). The camera, when converted into a historian, faces certain challenges. What happened, and why, how could it have happened, who was responsible and what are the consequences for society, are some of the questions for which answers are being sought. This article explores how the dictatorship has been represented and analyses four fiction films produced and released in the 21st century: Kamchatka (Marcelo Piñeyro, 2002), Cautiva (Gastón Biraben, 2003), Hermanas (Julia Solomonoff, 2004), and Crónica de una fuga (Israel Adrián Caetano, 2006).

Keywords

• Argentina
• cinema
• human rights
• military dictatorship
• memory
• state terrorism