4 Films & TV Shows Set In Uruguay During The 1970s
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Straight to VHS
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1970sThe search for the ghost that filmed the enigmatic and unique cult film of Uruguayan cinema — “Acto de violencia en una joven periodista” is a film shot and released on VHS in 1989. A mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about its creator, Manuel Lamas, about whom nothing is known.
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A Twelve-Year Night
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1970sEndless darkness. Limitless courage. — Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
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Absence of Me
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1970sHundreds of boxes left by the famous uruguayan musician and political activist Alfredo Zitarrosa (1936-1989) who run away the dictatorship in the 70s, have not been touched since his death 27 years ago. Now his wife and daughters are trying to save the memories, tapes, music and sound recordings that the boxes contain to the posterity.
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State of Siege
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1970sUsing the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.
