Octubre Pilagá, relatos sobre el silencio

Octubre Pilagá, relatos sobre el silencio

80 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 2010

In October 1947, the second year of the first government of Juan Domingo Perón, in a place called La Bomba, in northern Argentina, hundreds of people belonging to the Pilagá people were murdered. The fear planted by the State covered the facts with a cloak of silence. More than sixty years after the massacre, the survivors reveal details of what happened in a documentary that demanded its director more than three years of investigation in the province of Formosa and in official files.

Octubre Pilagá, relatos sobre el silencio

80 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 2010

Octubre Pilagá, relatos sobre el silencio
In October 1947, the second year of the first government of Juan Domingo Perón, in a place called La Bomba, in northern Argentina, hundreds of people belonging to the Pilagá people were murdered. The fear planted by the State covered the facts with a cloak of silence. More than sixty years after the massacre, the survivors reveal details of what happened in a documentary that demanded its director more than three years of investigation in the province of Formosa and in official files.
Producers Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales
Original title Octubre Pilagá, relatos sobre el silencio
Directors Valeria Mapelman
Writers Valeria Mapelman

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