"'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror

Forty years after the fall of that dictatorship, a video record of its trial — the only example of a Latin American democracy convicting its own oppressors — is having its U.S. premiere at Film Forum in New York.

After the trial, because the military was still much feared, the six trial judges secretly stashed a copy of the recordings half a world away in Oslo … They have never been publicly broadcast"

'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror | All Things Considered | WNYC

Forty years after the fall of an Argentine military dictatorship that tortured and murdered tens of thousands of civilians, a video record of its trial has its U.S. premiere at Film Forum in New York.

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