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

• Published in: Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
• Main Author: Susana Kaiser
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2010
• Subjects: Argentina; cinema; human rights; military dictatorship; memory; state terrorism; Social Sciences; H; Social sciences (General); H1-99; Argentino; Fuga; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.1715; https://doaj.org/article/5416b340ff534152ab13652e78e35bc4

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).